I’m no longer using Debian on my PowerPC Mac, so would you please remove my
email address from your list? Thanks.
Tom
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What are the correct apt sources for Debian Sarge these days? The old ones:
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free
deb-src http://archive.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free
no longer work.
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reinstall OS X.
Doesn't look like anyone else on this list has a better idea.
Tom
On May 31, 2011, at 5:20 AM, Piotr Kopszak wrote:
> No, nothing changed except the chime which was turned off before and
> now came back.
>
>
>
> 2011/5/29 Thomas Carlson :
>> Try this.
t; dist-upgrade today in chroot in lenny.
>
> 2011/5/29 Thomas Carlson :
>> What kind of a Mac is this? I'm assuming its a Powerbook or iBook of some
>> sort as you can remove the battery. Have you tried resetting the PRAM?
>>
>> Tom
>> On May 29, 2011, at 1
What kind of a Mac is this? I'm assuming its a Powerbook or iBook of some sort
as you can remove the battery. Have you tried resetting the PRAM?
Tom
On May 29, 2011, at 12:54 PM, Piotr Kopszak wrote:
> Yes, I tried that. Actually my description was imprecise. In fact I
> got to slashed circle
A response from another Tom...
Debian Squeeze (what MintPPC is based on) is a great OS but it does still have
some issues. I found that out when I tried to get sound working on my PM G4
Digital Audio. The installer assigns this particular machine the wrong sound
module and it needed a rather
, nothing works, even with
a reboot.
Clearly, the problem is has not been fixed and according to Christian, bug
report #606984 has been closed. Sigh...
Tom
On Apr 14, 2011, at 6:30 AM, Risto Suominen wrote:
> 2011/4/13, Thomas Carlson :
>> I tried today's (4/13/11) Daily Build #5,
I tried today's (4/13/11) Daily Build #5, that uses the installer build from Sid
on my 533MHz PowerMac G4 (Digital Audio) and guess what? The sound worked. I
was able to adjust the volume and set a sound theme. The correct device for
this machine, PowerMac Tumbler (Alsa mixer), had been installe
I played around with it and figured it out. Thanks.
Tom
On Mar 29, 2011, at 9:33 AM, Cédric Boutillier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 02:55:07PM -0600, Thomas Carlson wrote:
>> I have just installed today's weekly-build of
>> debian-testing-powerpc-x
ar 29, 2011, at 9:33 AM, Cédric Boutillier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 02:55:07PM -0600, Thomas Carlson wrote:
>> I have just installed today's weekly-build of
>> debian-testing-powerpc-xfce+lxde on my Powermac G4 (digital audio).
>> Can anyone tell me h
I have just installed today's weekly-build of debian-testing-powerpc-xfce+lxde
on my Powermac G4 (digital audio). Can anyone tell me how to use Wicd to
automatically access my wired network instead of searching in vain for a
non-existent wireless connection? With MintPPC's version of xfce, I us
For an old Mac guy like me, using the command line has been the real test.
Risto has been a very patient teacher.
Tom
On Mar 11, 2011, at 8:00 PM, h...@shaw.ca wrote:
> Some years back, someone described debian on powerpc as a continuous IQ test.
> To which I now add, it comes complete with
Risto:
I got today's netinstall build working on my PowerMac G4 (Digital Audio) using
install video=ofonly. Kudos to whoever fixed bug #615985 which had stopped the
installation last week with a debootstrap error. Sorry to report, sound still
doesn't work on this machine.
But, I installed th
I'm downloading it as I write this, and will let you know how it works later in
the day.
Tom
On Feb 28, 2011, at 6:10 AM, Risto Suominen wrote:
> Good news!
>
> According to this:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606984
>
> the daily build here should contain the fix:
>
You helped me do this with my PM G4 digital audio a while back (blacklisted
snd-aoa, then installed snd-powermac) and it worked just fine. The sound
worked for the first time (except, when I had Yellow Dog 6.1 running on it.)
Any chance this fix might make it into the installer in Squeeze? I k
You are right. All the apt sources are for Squeeze.
Tom
On Dec 14, 2010, at 3:11 AM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> Excerpts from Thomas Carlson's message of Die Dez 14 06:41:20 +0100 2010:
>> Yes, I certainly would be.
>>
>> I noticed today that the latest weekly-build isn't Squeeze. It's
>> the e
Yes, I certainly would be.
I noticed today that the latest weekly-build isn't Squeeze. It's the evil Sid.
Tom
On Dec 13, 2010, at 10:55 AM, Risto Suominen wrote:
> 2010/12/9, Jerome Warnier :
>>>
>>> Next question is: how to make it load on boot, and not snd-aoa?
>>
>> Can't you just blackli
I have also been trying to get Debian PPC, working on an old PowerMac G4, to
share files with OS X Snow Leopard with limited success. Here is a link that
describes rebuilding Netatalk to include password encryption that will play
nice with Bonjour.
http://routerjockey.com/2009/08/28/setting-up
I now have a functioning Sid installation on my PowerMac G4 (digital audio).
Thanks for the help.
As to the sound problem... it's still there.The speakers don't work. When
I open Alsamixer in a terminal I'm still not able to unmute the Speakers by
hitting m.
Tom
On Nov 27, 2010, at 11:3
I spoke too soon. Would someone point me to a current souces.list for Sid?
Thanks.
Tom
On Nov 27, 2010, at 4:33 AM, Risto Suominen wrote:
> Looks like the ALSA patches have made their way to sid (unstable).
> Could someone with a PowerMac G4 Digital Audio test it?
>
> Risto
>
>
> --
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I am upgrading the Squeeze installation on my PowerMac G4 (digital audio) to
Sid as I write this and will report back.
Thanks for getting this all going, Risto.
Tom
On Nov 27, 2010, at 4:33 AM, Risto Suominen wrote:
> Looks like the ALSA patches have made their way to sid (unstable).
> Could s
I can't wait to try them out on my PowerMac G4 (digital audio). Thanks for
getting at this, Risto.
Tom
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On Nov 11, 2010, at 7:23 AM, nello martuscielli wrote:
> hi Risto,
> why don'tyo
Thank you, Jeroen. I didn't really know where to go with this.
Cheers, Tom
On Oct 28, 2010, at 1:21 PM, Jeroen Diederen wrote:
> https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/login_page.php
>
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=108642&group_id=8642&func=browse
>
> Success!
>
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I totally agree.
On Oct 28, 2010, at 12:18 PM, John Ogness wrote:
> On 2010-10-28, Thomas Carlson wrote:
>> I have been periodically installing the latest "test" version of
>> Squeeze on my PowerMac G4 (digital audio) hoping that when the
>> finalized version is r
rough all that?
Tom
On Oct 28, 2010, at 10:33 AM, Jeroen Diederen wrote:
> Did you file a bug report for these two issues?
>
> On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 09:52 -0600, Thomas Carlson wrote:
>> I have been periodically installing the latest "test" version of Squeeze on
&g
nd
will continue to use Tiger which "just works" until something better comes
along.
Thanks to those who continue to work on these problems.
Tom
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Sound is still broken on a G4 PowerMac (digital audio). Can't turn on speakers
with AlsaMixer.
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On Aug 1, 2010, at 1:05 PM, brian m. carlson wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 12:41:44PM -0600, Thomas Carlson wrote:
>> AlsaMixer doesn't give me any control of Headphones or Speakers. Just a box
>> with MM in it.
>
> "MM" means muted, "OO" me
On Aug 1, 2010, at 2:26 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> * Thomas Carlson [100801 12:10 -0600]:
>> On Aug 1, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
>>
>>> * Thomas Carlson [100801 10:55 -0600]:
>>>
>>>> Sound doesn't work when I try t
On Aug 1, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> * Thomas Carlson [100801 10:55 -0600]:
>
>> Sound doesn't work when I try to play a CD-ROM in VLC media player
>> and Mixer doesn't give me any controls to adjust volume and so on.
>> Am I missing somethi
Sound doesn't work when I try to play a CD-ROM in VLC media player and Mixer
doesn't give me any controls to adjust volume and so on. Am I missing
something in Settings?
I did the output by copying and pasting from your email into a Root Terminal.
I never work as root on a regular basis.
Che
The CODEC on the sound card is Texas Instruments TA3001C. The correct driver
for this machine (PowerMac3,4) is the alsa driver.
Tom
On Jul 27, 2010, at 11:33 AM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> * Thomas Carlson [100727 09:24 -0600]:
>
>> Yesterday's weekly installation CD now r
Yesterday's weekly installation CD now recognizes both of the ethernet cards on
my G4 PowerMac (digital audio). Thanks to whoever fixed this. The alsa
driver, however, is still broken as sound doesn't work.
Tom
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I also found that yesterday's weekly xfce installation CD didn't recognize
either of the ethernet cards on my G4 PowerMac (digital audio).
Tom
On Jul 20, 2010, at 9:49 AM, Rogério Brito wrote:
> Hi there, Rick.
>
> On Jul 20 2010, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> At this point, Debian squeeze is un-insta
I would certainly be willing to test a new version of the kernel if it could be
rolled into a new weekly build.
Tom
On Jul 17, 2010, at 11:35 AM, nello martuscielli wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Thomas Carlson
> wrote:
>> I have been testing various flavors of PPC Lin
t 3:03 PM, Thomas Carlson
> wrote:
>> I have been testing various flavors of PPC Linux on my old PowerMac G4
>> (digital audio) to come up with a replacement for OS X Tiger. The latest,
>> Debian Squeeze with xfce as the window manager. It runs fine, but as with
>>
, the sound doesn't
work. The CODEC on the sound card is Texas Instruments TA3001C. Has anyone
with a similar machine experienced this problem?
Tom
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om the top bar as the Linux server doesn't show up
in the Mac finder as it should. Also, have I effectively cut my older Macs off
from this server as they don't use password encryption? I'll find out soon.
Thanks to all, Tom
On Feb 13, 2010, at 6:14 AM, Thomas Carlson wrote:
&
me how to
configure it so that encryption is enabled?
On Feb 13, 2010, at 6:57 AM, Tiresia Giuno wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:14:10 -0700
> Thomas Carlson wrote:
>> Can anyone point me to a good tutorial or tell me what one has to do
>> to enable AFP file sharing to wor
password error
message.
Tom
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was upgraded.
>
> Getting it running is merely a curiosity.
>
> - Wayde
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> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Thomas Carlson
> wrote:
>> What sort
What sort of "old G4" are you talking about?
Tom
On Dec 20, 2009, at 9:16 AM, Wayde Allen wrote:
> I've recently been trying to install the latest copy of DebianPPC on
> an old G4. The install disk boots, finds the network, partitions the
> hardrive, and begins dowloading files from the mirror
other than the standard GNU/GCC compiler tools collection?
Cheers, Tom
On Dec 17, 2009, at 11:07 PM, Risto Suominen wrote:
> 2009/12/17, Gombang Nan Cengka :
>> On Thursday 17 December 2009 22:35:56 Thomas Carlson wrote:
>>> Is this the appropriate list to ask why Debian Lenny
First I tried...
sudo modprobe snd_powermac
No luck.
Then I added snd-powermac to the /etc/modules file
Still no sound. Any suggestions
Tom
On Dec 17, 2009, at 11:07 PM, Risto Suominen wrote:
> 2009/12/17, Gombang Nan Cengka :
>> On Thursday 17 December 2009 22:35:56 Thomas Carl
Is this the appropriate list to ask why Debian Lenny doesn't recognize the
sound card on my PowerMac G4 (Digital Audio)? Everything else works fine.
Since Apple stopped supporting OS X Tiger I have been trying out various Linux
flavors. Any recommendations?
Tom
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I have been waiting to see some response to this post. Are there
others out there who have had success with Sarge on Old World machines.
My Powermac 9500 is partitioned and ready to go once the CD set
arrives in the mail. I plan to use BootX so I can continue to
dual-boot OS X. Any advi
Alessandro,
I am actually just a " lurker" on the Debian list as I am actually running Yellow Dog Linux on my old Powermac 9500. I had exactly the same experience as you when I first tried to install Debian Woody on my machine and chose the option of using quik like you did. If things don't go r
I have been using Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 on my old Powermac 9500 for
quite a while. Except for problems with serial-port printing, I have
been happy with it. Now, with the new 4.0 release, YDL has ceased to
"officially" support pre-G3 machines. This says to me, "You're on your
own, Jack." Is
right into my Mac partition. Thanks for pointing me in the
right direction, though.
Tom
On Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 11:18 PM, Chris Tillman wrote:
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 09:53:03PM -0700, Thomas Carlson wrote:
I have had some experience with Yellow Dog Linux but wanted to try
Debian
I have had some experience with Yellow Dog Linux but wanted to try
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 on my old Powermac 9500. Tried using BootX and
the same partitioning scheme that I use with Yellow Dog. In the
installation process, however, I managed to set things up so that the
machine will only will b
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