Hi #330250 _:)
About Firefox I can only say that I feel the same thing as you describe,
Adrian, when you say that the current version isn't really usable on a
single-core system such as a G4. Even on a Dual-G4 or a Dual-G5,
TenFourFox for Mac OS X was very VERY slow... The latest versions of
Fir
Hi,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
[1]https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/tree/master/components/desktop/firefox/patches
interesting set... I recognize one:
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/blob/master/components/desktop/firefox/patches/firefox-53-sparc-gfx-atomicops.patch
Hi,
Jan Montag wrote:
since I just bought a Powermac G5 (powermac11.2) Dual 2 GHz, I'm
running Debian 12 SID on it. I also keep trying to compile or install a
current browser. Unfortunately this doesn't work for reasons I don't
understand. How has this progressed? The current version of Firefox
2024 15:00, Leo Historias
<mailto:leohistoriasanima...@gmail.com>> escreveu:
I mean to John. so
On Fri, Oct 4, 2024 at 4:20 AM Riccardo Mottola
mailto:riccardo.mott...@libero.it>>
wrote:
Leo Historias wrote:
> The port of Firefox 115esr t
Hi,
Ed Robbins wrote:
However if the apm_emu module would be useful for other desktop
environments I can submit a patch to add it to the default debian
powerpc kernel config as suggested by Adrian? It appears the GNUstep
battery monitor does support APM.
GNUstep Battery Monitor supports both A
Hi Ed,
Ed Robbins wrote:
I believe that the apm_emu module is required for battery
indicator/monitoring on certain powerbooks?
It seems to be missing on latest kernels (6.3, 6.11). Can it be
enabled for our config?
Or, is there an alternative way to enable battery indicators?
GNUstep battery
Hi,
Leo Historias wrote:
They should update firefox to the latest one considering it is
outdated and 52esr is out of support. 115ESR or 128esr is more updated
than 52esr.
because Mozilla makes things unbuildable and unportable nowadays. Even
if you could get it to run it would be full of en
Hi,
Leo Historias wrote:
What? You didn't finish due to lack of "manpower"? And we need cross
transpile? Okay, i could do it for you if only i had the skills
necessary and I'm not too young (but being too young isn't neccesary
for the reason not to do it,right? I'm 17,almost turning 18 next ye
Hi,
brief summary:
---
sudo sbuild-createchroot unstable debian-powerpc --arch=powerpc
--include=debian-ports-archive-keyring --keyring
/usr/share/keyrings/debian-ports-archive-keyring.gpg
http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports
dget
-uhttp://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20220801T0
Hi,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Yes, you need “buildd”.
Oh, I thought that buildd was only for participating in debian build not
for local builds.
So let me retry:
sudo sbuild-createchroot unstable debian-powerpc --arch=powerpc
--variant=buildd --include=debian-ports-archive-keyring
Hi,
perhaps I'm loosing myself in a glass of water here.
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
You include the keyring when creating the chroot using the "--include" option:
# sbuild-createchroot unstable /srv/chroot/unstable-powerpc \
--arch=powerpc --variant=buildd --include=debian-ports-archi
Hello,
no hint for me which key to use? or if I miss one, where to get it?
I have apt-get working, so I think I have the key.
Riccardo
Riccardo Mottola wrote:
Hi!
I separate the thread - since it is specific to setting up a viable
sbuild environment.
The goal is to have the simplest and
Hi!
I separate the thread - since it is specific to setting up a viable
sbuild environment.
The goal is to have the simplest and smallest enviornoment to build
source packages, in my case pyhon 2.7
I need the chroot. I read jeffrey's suggestions as well as wiki [1]
I am trying this:
sudo sb
Hi Adrian,
so you suggest to use powerful scripts.
Ok, got dget (from devscripts) and sbuild.
Added my user do sbuild group.
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
You can fetch the source from here:
$ dget
-uhttp://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20220801T085926Z/pool/main/p/python2.7/python2.7
Hi Adrian,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Python 2.7 was removed from Debian unstable in December 2022 [1]. The
motivations for the removal are explained in [2].
I supposed so, just asked for confirmation. I don't care much about the
motivations - I need it as a build dependency. I underst
Hi Adrian,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
First run "apt update", then "apt upgrade" and make sure every package is
updated without
issues. Once that has passed, you may try to run "apt dist-upgrade" but before
you confirm
the dist-upgrade, make sure that nothing is purged you still need.
I
Hi,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>
> Debian unstable is currently undergoing a massive transition to switch
> 32-bit architectures to 64-bit time_t as announced last month:
>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2024/02/msg0.html
>> https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/64bit-
Hi,
I did an "apt-get dist-upgrade" today and my git disappeared.
When I tried to readd it I get:
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
Hi Adrian,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Correct, there is an issue with the brightness controls. It sometimes randomly
turns the screen off, even when turning it to maximum setting. Then when you
change the settings again randomly, the video comes back.
Still, this needs to be bisected.
O
Hi,
if I try to run glxgears on my iBook G4, it dies with this error:
radeon: Invalid PCI ID.
glx: failed to create dri2 screen
failed to load driver: radeonsi
LLVM ERROR: Relocation type not implemented yet!
lspci says:
:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[AMD/
Hi Adrian,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
just as a heads-up: I'm not getting a video signal with my iBook G4 with
the latest kernel. dmesg shows error messages that seem to be related to
the problem:
[ 14.222735] radeon :00:10.0: [drm] bpp/depth value of 16/16 not supported
[ 14.2227
Hi,
I am giving a refresh to the GNUstep BatteryMonitor [*] and was checking
its support to PMU. Right now it ignores battery flags and thought of
using them, but they appear to give bad data on my iBook.
I found in the linux kernel doc
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/macin
Hi Ken,
Ken Cunningham wrote:
> I am aware of a few projects out there working to try to keep a repackaged
> TenFourFox going that have *.deb archives available, and I think there are
> some official channels for a few different browsers inside debian (Firefox,
> Epiphany).
I don't know what
H Fritz,
Fritz Hudnut wrote:
Adrian:
Just providing feedback on the Debian Sid/PPC install that I ran a
couple months back and then today did an apt dist-upgrade that brought
in 489 packages. Because the machine has a 933 MHz cpu it doesn't do
anything too fast, but it did get through the
Hi Lennart,
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
I had a poke at it, dealt with a couple of compile issues, then
encountered Blocks and went WTF did Apple invent here? I don't even
understand the description of their proprietary extension to C/C++/ObjC.
I had never seen code with ^ prefixed to things in th
Hi Gabriel,
On 2023-03-24 08:27:36 +0100 Gabriel Paubert wrote:
Hi Riccardo,
I'd like to restart my Pismo (got an SSD in 2014 when you could still
find them with PATA interface). Could you please append (or attach)
here
a copy of your apt/sources.list to help people wanting to resta
Hi All!
if you can read it.. it means that my iBook is rocking. X11 and WiFi
(Airport) included.
For weeks X11 and ATI drivers were broken beyond usage. I performed a
full system upgrade.
6.1.0-7-powerpc #1 Debian 6.1.20-1 (2023-03-19) ppc GNU/Linux
:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: Ad
Hi,
Didier Kryn wrote:
> Another concern is that a software which does run only on one single
> endianness proves to be buggy and loosely written. High level software
> such as Firefox should be independant of such considerations, exactly as
> it should not rely on internal details of the impl
Hi,
Lionel Élie Mamane wrote:
> Thanks for the link, interesting and I didn't know about this one
> indeed. Beyond "not available this year", I see the one-but least FAQ
> https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/faq/
> says that it won't run a "modern distro" in little-endian mode, as
> "although it does
Hi Adrian(s)!
On 11/17/22 19:35, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi Riccardo!
On 11/14/22 23:32, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
did you make the driver available somewhere?
I just tried an update today and same old issue:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
xserver-xorg-video-mach64
Hi Adrian & Adrian,
did you make the driver available somewhere?
I just tried an update today and same old issue:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
xserver-xorg-video-mach64 : Depends: xorg-video-abi-24 but it is not
installable
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken insta
Hello,
while on my PowerBook OpenGL works (both in a browser as well in minimal
test case glxgears) on my iBook G4 not:
$ glxgears
radeon: Invalid PCI ID.
libGL error: glx: failed to create dri2 screen
libGL error: failed to load driver: radeonsi
LLVM ERROR: Relocation type not implemented ye
Hi,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> There is an FTBFS with the driver that needs to be fixed [1].
>
> However, there is an upstream patch available that fixes the issue plus
> there is also a newer upstream version available [2] which should fix the
> problem as well [3].
>
> @Adrian: Could you
Hello,
I did a major dist-upgrade on my old iBook G3 clamshell. It wasn't
without minor hiccups... perhaps also because I didn't do it in many months.
I suppose open-jdk and all the related java studd don't work properly
because the failed to configure, however, I never used them but were
only a s
Hi David,
David VANTYGHEM wrote:
> I installed last ISO of Debian for PowerPC. All is fine but screen is
> blank, xserver doesn't start. Following Adrian advice, I installed
> xserver-xorg-video-r128package but there's no changes. Must I type
> something particular after installing this package or
Hello,
I also updated my PowerBook G4 (which has grub) and my iBook G4 (which
has lilo) and it all works fine too! I just did a quick test, but seems
working. (*)
Soon I will attempt on my iBook G3 then!
(*) actually, I noticed that on my iBook using Arcitcfox WebGL does not
work, on the PowerBo
Hi Tony,
to...@suse.de wrote:
> Right now it's running 3.0 Linux kernel. It's overheating. It will
> boot into X11 and remain up pretty much indefinitely if the load
> average remains under 1.5. If I start Firefox I'll get a spike
> (log warnings from Windfarm that the temp is "overtemp" fo
Hi Ken,
Ken Cunningham wrote:
>
> All your excellent work deserves to be used! So make it easier for
> people, is all I'm about here.
I understand where you are. I have long experience with PPC and Linux
and yet an install was not easy, depending on the flux of packages
We could start with som
Hello Adrian
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> I forgot to upload the manually built package for 32-bit powerpc which I have
> done
> now. The fixed package should be available on the FTP servers within the next
> six
> hours.
The issue was indeed on 32bit PPC as Efraim mentioned.
Thank you f
Hi!
Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> an update on this - Last kernel 5.15 works fine on my PowerBook again!
> Will test now on my iBooks and also on the iMac where I never had issues
> however.
Good news. X11 is working again:
* clamshell iBook G3
* white iBook G4
* iMac G5 iSight (neve
Hi,
On 2021-11-03 19:09:05 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
wrote:
> The problem is not exclusive to PowerPC but also SPARC and 32-bit x86. It
> used to work before with version 3.4.2 in experimental:
>
> See:
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=libffi&arch=powerpc&ver=3.4.2-1&s
Hello,
an update on this - Last kernel 5.15 works fine on my PowerBook again!
Will test now on my iBooks and also on the iMac where I never had
issues however.
Riccardo
--
Sent with GNUMail running on MacOS 10.7
Hi Adrian
,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>
> a) Upstream doesn't care and has not even looked at the issue yet:
That's worrying.
>
>> https://github.com/libffi/libffi/issues/662
> b) Debian's libffi maintainer hasn't understood the problem and assume it's
>just a matter of passing the r
Hi all,
just to note that the libffi issues are back.
I believe Adrian put in some patched version with a workaround, which
with the latest update stopped working again?
Riccardo
Hi,
Dan Whitehouse wrote:
> I've got a Powermac G4 running debian ppc32.
> I've noticed a potential issue with aptitude.
> If I run "aptitude update" I notice it never seems to complete.
> It'll use 18% or so of my RAM (which is about 450mb I believe) but no
> CPU. It isn't swapping.
with current
Hi,
On 2021-10-07 09:18:09 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
wrote:
Hello Riccardo!
On 10/7/21 03:39, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
Did you see the error I am getting about BIOS ROM at boot? Do you
get it
too?
This isn't an error, it's just what you expect on a non-x86 system.
Grap
Hello Stan,
thanks for the testing time.
I tested these kernels from mainline Linux on the Cube:
5.14.0 works
5.15.0-rc3 works
5.15.0-rc4-00019-g5af4055fa813 works
Kernel 5.14.9 from www.kernel.org also works.
Running "apt-get install kernel-source" downloads:
"linux-source-5.14 (5.14.9-2
Hi Stan,
On 2021-10-06 16:59:36 + Stan Johnson wrote:
I can confirm that X is not working on a PowerPC G4 Cube with the
stock
Debian kernel "vmlinux-5.14.0-2-powerpc". X does work with the stock
Debian kernel "vmlinux-5.10.0-8-powerpc". In both cases, I'm using the
latest Debian SID with
Hi,
Darn! X doesn't work on my PowerBook G4 too! I was so happy that the
5.14-2 kernel did boot successfully with a console, but it does not
start X, black screen, exactly as on the iBook.
Contrary to the iBook, the PowerBook has been updated to the very latest
possible packages, including
Hi,
I carefully upgraded kernel and other selected packages on my trusty
iBook and see how it goes. The iMac G5 runs smooth (except for libffi
issues) with current kernel and Debian the PowerBook adds to this latest
kernel issues, but for the rest it has "only" the libffi issue.
How would th
Hi Stan,
On 28/09/2021 01:49, Stan Johnson wrote:
Which G4 PowerBook are using?
To my knowledge it is one of the absolutely latest PowerBook models,
with USB keyboard (lots of issues!).
multix@Auryn:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
cpu : 7447A, altivec supported
clock
Hi Adrian
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>>
>
> It’s been moved:
>
> > http://incoming.ports.debian.org/buildd/packages/sid/main/
>
Thanks. I got from there libffi8_3.4.2-2+b1_powerpc.deb
I replaced the one I compiled myself and I immediately get illegal
instruction in a libffi-using app.
I
Hello,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>
> It's not being built with -mnative as far I could tell from the logs.
>
> But you can verify whether this is the case or not by building the
> Debian package on your local machine:
>
> $ apt-get install devscripts
> $ dget -u
> https://deb.debian.org/de
Hello Adrian
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> $ wget http://incoming.ports.debian.org/libffi8_3.4.2-2+b1_powerpc.deb
> $ dpkg -i libffi8_3.4.2-2+b1_powerpc.deb
>
> For ppc64:
>
> $ wget http://incoming.ports.debian.org/libffi8_3.4.2-2+b1_ppc64.deb
> $ dpkg -i libffi8_3.4.2-2+b1_ppc64.deb
I can
Hi,
just for info - the issue happens also on PowerPC G4 32bit.
strange nobody else shares this?
Riccardo
Hi,
I upgraded the kernel only PowerBook G4 (late model) and it doesn't
boot. Quickly after exiting OF:
root: recovering journal
root: clean, 373541/5865472 files, 5215323/23437500 blocks
and stays there forever.
If I take the old 5.10 kernel it still boots. No "Recovering journal"
message
Hi,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
No I cannot, 3.4.2 (cleaned, reconfigured, installed) seems to work fine out of
the box.
So either the release is not well tagged, or there is an issue with the Debian
package.
You could try rebuilding the libffi Debian package locally and see if that
ma
Hi Adrian,
On 2021-09-26 18:34:47 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
wrote:
On 9/26/21 19:31, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
Would you like me to build the latest "release" of libffi ?
Yes, please test the 3.4.2 release by checking out the "v3.4.2" tag:
$ git checkou
Hi Adrian,
On 2021-09-26 15:43:02 +0200 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
wrote:
On 9/26/21 15:39, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
That's a bit a similar issue with building libffi locally. In
/usr/local
I am unsure it would be picked up. I can of course still do it and
perhaps
have GNUstep pick
Hello Adrian,
On 2021-09-26 13:54:33 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
wrote:
Hello!
On 9/26/21 14:36, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
I upgraded my iMac G5 to latest debian, including kernel 5.14 !
The good thing is that the new kernel boots and X11 comes up.
The bad news is lots of applications
Hello,
On 2021-09-23 10:13:52 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
wrote:
Hello Kristoffer!
On 9/23/21 11:10, kristoffer...@tuta.io wrote:
After upgrading to 5.14.6, both my G5 and G4 machines won't boot
with this
kernel. They stop at this: ata1.00 failed to set xfermode
(err_mask =
0x
Hi,
I upgraded my iMac G5 to latest debian, including kernel 5.14 !
The good thing is that the new kernel boots and X11 comes up.
The bad news is lots of applications crash and they all have one thing
in common, libffi.
So e.g. a build of ArcticFox fails:
multix@PPC970FX:~/code/Arctic-Fox$ .
Hi,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
It depends on the workload, of course. Anything that does SIMD like matrix
multiplications
in multimedia or scientific computing will, of course, profit from enabling
AltiVec.
No one claimed that AltiVec, MMX or SSE will just improve everything.
Exactly,
Hi,
Stan Johnson wrote:
> Here's a more recent example: I've been trying to figure out how to
> install a more modern Linux kernel on a PowerMac 6100. More than 20
> years ago, Apple teamed up with the now-defunct OSF to use the Mach 3.0
> microkernel along with Apple's customized version of a 2
Hi Adrian,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Yes and no. I am quite optimistic the bug was fixed with a patch which
is included upstream since 4.19-rc1. It still needs confirmation,
though, i.e. testing.
The PowerMac G5 users on this list are kindly asked to confirm the bug has
been fixed. Until
Hello James,
On 25/04/2021 18:01, James Madgwick wrote:
On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 11:17:28 +0200
Johannes Brakensiek wrote:
Thanks. I've set up up that repository and I'm now happily using
ArcticFox. As an aside, I had also tried Konqueror - it has the same
problem as firefox. Epiphany did work but
Hi,
On 4/15/21 5:53 PM, Alex McKeever wrote:
As in, are the drivers actually working now? The last time we discussed this,
someone built it and it didn’t seem to work. This effects all Linux
distributions, including Adelie, which is a new distribution that uses an APK
package format (not Andr
Hi,
On 3/8/21 9:49 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
We certainly shouldn't disable the whole JIT over a single instruction but
rather
check whether this instruction can be guarded on older POWER systems.
But we need to find out first which instruction triggers the SIGILL.
Indeed, it cras
Hi Adrian!
On 2021-03-06 15:22:02 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
wrote:
Please install the dbgsym/dbg package for VLC and ffmpeg and provide
a
backtrace.
Most likely someone added VSX support to either of them without
guarding the
code with #ifdefs.
the issue is most probably in li
Hi,
I just tried VLC on a G5... it starts but as soon as I try to open a
file, it dies "inside" the file selector! Not just a file, trying to
click on my home directory, I get illegal instruction.ù
If I give it a MP4 on the command line, it will come up and then die
with illegal instruction.
Hi Luke,
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
just to confirm: that's definitely "setting machine to capabilities
that the machine doesn't have, then requesting that feature and gcc 10
says 'ok'" yes?
i do not know the exact machine, let us assume it is -mg3.
the options being passed are "
Hi,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Since original discussion evolved around the G3 beige model, I would
prefer if the community found a cheap G3 beige model to work on for me.
Also, the G3 beige tower takes less space as compared to the iMac.
Would a 9600 "last model" be of interest? It
Hi!
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Good news on this issue: Adrian Bunk has kindly stepped up and is working on
> re-adding
> the legacy driver packages to the Debian archive [1]. So users will be able
> to use
> X on the affected machines in the near future again.
Good news then!
> If a
Hi Luke,
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>
> 1.5 and 1.9 never had SIMD / VMX / VSX so there shouldn't be a problem
> (for G5).
>
> which, coming back to the original question, i'm not seeing a reason
> why disabling altivec should not compile.
>
> unless, of course, there have been assumptio
Hi Gabriel,
Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> This is going to be hopelessly slow. The point of SIMD is to process
> quickly vast amounts of data, the overhead of every single emulated
> instructions is counted in hundreds of cycles.
>
> IMHO, the only solution is to:
> a) only use SIMD in library code
>
Hi,
Riccardo Mottola wrote:
>
> This causes a big issue if you want to compile a non-Altivec build on
> a capable processor like the G4: it will automatically enabled even if
> you don't want.
> E.g. if I want to build on a G4 a binary working on the G3, I can't. I
>
Hello,
I was checkin gout a specific patch Adrian made for Firefox, which
should help building on non-Altivec capable CPUs.
https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/commit/c6b39f0f902898988ca7793af56307640ff81362
I have imported it in ArcticFox with this commit and tested it.
https://github.com/rm
Hi all!
we all report issues and I myself seem to report only problems (like the
inability to use GRUB on an iMac) and install issues. But let's see the
bright things!
However I did an upgrade run on the said iMac G5.. but also on my
PowerBook G4 and my vintage iBook G3 clamshell... and everythin
Hi,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Once Linux is fully installed, the system runs quiet when doing nothing
(console prompt) and
remains quiet when doing several things (also unexpected ones).
There were multiple bugs in the windfarm drivers in the upstream kernel such as
[1], make sure
you
Hey Rick!
On 12/31/20 4:36 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
You have
vmlinux -> vmlinux-5.9.0-5-powerpc64
But there is no actual file named "vmlinux-5.9.0-5-powerpc64" in the directory.
Maybe that's your problem?
keen eyes, you spotted it! very strange to happen, the file mas missing.
I reinstal
Hi Adrian!
On 12/31/20 12:31 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Right now, I have configured what Adrian suggested in a mail a couple of months
ago:
You need to add this line:
deb [arch=all]http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable contrib non-free
thank you for the prompt response! That w
Hi,
I just noticed I have this issue seen in dmesg:
[ 21.449826] radeon :04:00.0: firmware: failed to load
radeon/R300_cp.bin (-2)
[ 21.449835] radeon :04:00.0: Direct firmware load for
radeon/R300_cp.bin failed with error -2
[ 21.450016] [drm:.r100_cp_init [radeon]] *ERROR* Fa
Hi Mathieu,
On 12/30/20 10:22 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
There was a regression at some point, did you check:
*https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2020/03/msg00035.html
What's your kernel version ?
Right now, it apparently is an older version:
Linux PPC970FX 4.16.0-1-powerpc64 #1 SM
Hi,
now that the iMac G5 is up and running, I did run the same build task as
on my iBook G4 and PowerBook G4, where I already found some differences
in speed, given a similar CPU and setup - We attribtuted them to the
quite much faster disk in the iBook.
Now comes the G5 (PPC970fx) which run
Hi,
it is my first time I run linux on an iMac G5 and have some doubts about
its cooling.
I noticed that while installing Debian, the fan spins at full speed and
it really deserves the term "windfarm", it is as loud as a vacuum cleaner.
Once Linux is fully installed, the system runs quiet w
Hi Adrian,
On 12/28/20 9:51 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
You should try to install one of the Yaboot images to make sure there is no
problem
with your machine.
That could be a check to perform... where is the last working yaboot image to
be found?
See:https://cdimage.debian.org/cdima
Hi,
On 12/28/20 9:51 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
You should try to install one of the Yaboot images to make sure there is no
problem
with your machine.
That could be a check to perform... where is the last working yaboot image to
be found?
See:https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/port
Hi,
On 12/28/20 9:31 PM, Alex Perez wrote:
Hi folks,
I just wanted to share that I was able to succesfully boot and install
Debian 10 using the "official" Debian 10 netinst CD from [1], with the
exception of the bootloader, which failed, and I had to handle manually.
I also tried booting from
Hi Adrian,
On 12/28/20 1:53 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Well, it's broken at the moment and I will fix that within the
next days.
what are you going to fix? the glibc issue you say shouldn't matter.
I did another interesting thing. I run the "expert installation" of the
most curre
Hi!
On 12/27/20 2:49 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
You are confusing hfsprogs and hfsutils. The former is actually missing on the
FTP
server.
The confusion arises because I found this in the logs:
Dec 25 15:29:46 in-target: hfsutils: not found
Dec 25 15:29:46 in-target:
Dec 25 15:29
Hi Adrian
On 12/27/20 11:19 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
I have read previous threads about hfsutils, but thought they were fixed, as
per your
mail with Frank Scheiner.
I cannot make any further tests to the grub-installer code at the moment since
we need
to fix the partman issue fir
Hi Adrian,
On 12/25/20 2:20 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
This has all been debugged and discussed on the list.
I just hadn't had the time to continue working on the issues with partman yet.
I have read the threads with Dennis, but found no solution, conclusion
about it. Can you poin
Hi,
since the 2020-12-03 image did not work (installs, but system does not
boot) I tried walking back in time... and see
2020-12-03: installs, no boot
2020-11-16: installs, no boot
2020-10-13: broken image, installer starts, but finds "no device for
installation media was detected" (cdrom
Hi,
On 12/3/20 3:05 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi!
I uploaded updated Debian installer CD images today.
These come with the latest versions of the kernel and the debian-installer
application as well as various other updates. The images can be found at
the usual location [1] as well
Hi,
Brian Morris wrote:
% time cat huge_file_copy
Install smartctl to check drive health
I also have a PowerBook 1ghz which is quite a bit faster than my
1.5ghz tho could be because the former has a bit more ram and a newer
hard drive and the latter has a defective 2nd ram slot
I wanted t
Hi,
Stan Johnson wrote:
Adrian,
Yes, the 5.9.0 kernel works on my PB G4 12". The built-in keyboard is
detected as ADB. In a Google search, everything I was able to find
indicated that G4 PowerBooks use ADB for their built-in keyboards and
trackpads.
I can say that 5.7 kernels recognize the i
Hi!
I develop on both an iBook G4 14" (should be one of the latest model,
although the motherboard ) and a PowerBook G4 17" both running debian...
Although currently different kernels, minor differences.
"In theory" I got the PB G4 because it should be faster than the iBook
* Same CPU version,
Hi,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
I just upgraded the kernel to 5.9.0 on my PowerBook G4 - no keyboard, I
cannot>even login.
I reverted to 7.0-2 and everything works as expected.
I do not have intermediate kernels, so I cannot tell when exactly things broke.
You can find more kernel versio
Hi Adrian,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 11/7/20 3:33 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote> Hi!
As somebody else asked, I booted, attached an USB keyboard and that one works.
Is the keyboard ADB or USB? I see in the dmesg usb related messages.
Whom are you asking here?
Anybody who knows :)
Hi!
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Just upgraded my iBook G4 with the latest unstable updates and rebooted the
machine
into kernel 5.9.0. Keyboard works fine and without any issues, same applies for
all
other hardware.
The output of dmesg, /var/log/Xorg.log.0 and lspci would be helpful if
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