Re: Testers on PowerMac needed - overwriting the boot-device in NVRAM

2022-03-25 Thread Cameron MacPherson
Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hello Cameron! > > On 3/25/22 09:40, Cameron MacPherson wrote: > > nvram --print-config='boot-device /pci@f400/ata-6@d/@0:2,\\:txbi' > > nvram --update-config boot-device=""

Re: Testers on PowerMac needed - overwriting the boot-device in NVRAM

2022-03-25 Thread Cameron MacPherson
hi, nvram --print-config='boot-device /pci@f400/ata-6@d/@0:2,\\:txbi' nvram --update-config boot-device="" nvram --print-config=boot-device reboot result is another login prompt On Fri, Mar 25, 2022, 12:44 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hello! > > I wo

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

2022-02-02 Thread Cameron MacPherson
i got the +b1 version of systemd this afternoon and its fixed On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 10:15 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hello! > > On 2/2/22 18:55, H wrote: > > Thank you Adrian! > > Try upgrading your machines, it should be fixed now. > > Adrian > > -- >

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

2022-02-01 Thread Cameron MacPherson
i got the ppc64 version 250.3-1 of libnss-systemd libpam-systemd libsystemd0 systemd-timesync and systemd from snapshot.debian.org and installed them with dpkg -i and the system boots again after apt upgrade to 250.3-2 on reboot the machine halts before it restarts systemd[1]: Caught , dumped core

Re: sid ppc64 port systemd is broken on PowerMac G5 right now

2022-02-01 Thread Cameron MacPherson
hi, on my system i get systemd[1]: Caught , core dump failed (child 210, code=killed, status=6/ABRT) prior to rebooting there were messages about journald not starting. i will see if i can go back to an older version of systemd. On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 2:33 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub..

Re: Bug#885245: linux: FTBFS on powerpcspe: sstep.c: ptesync unrecognized

2022-01-21 Thread Cameron MacPherson
to get the latest kernel to compile on a powermac g5 takes removing the power8 instructions from sstep.c it will compile with -mpower8 but then wont boot if you dont get rid of the instructions On Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 1:11 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hi! >

Re: libffi illegal instruction - again

2021-11-03 Thread Cameron MacPherson
erimental” packages > (I keep getting an error when I try to use that option), building libffi in > a couple of minutes on the local machine and installing that of course > works easily. — K > > > > On Nov 2, 2021, at 2:01 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < > glaub...@physik.fu

Re: libffi illegal instruction - again

2021-11-02 Thread Cameron MacPherson
i got the 3.4.2-3+ports package after apt upgrade -t experimental and there are no illegal instructions On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 5:43 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 10/25/21 12:11, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > b) Debian's libffi maintainer hasn't u

Re: libffi illegal instruction - again

2021-10-25 Thread Cameron MacPherson
would it be helpful if all of us affected contributed to the bug report? the squeaky wheel gets the grease method sometimes works On Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 11:10 AM Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi Adrian > , > > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > a) Upstream doesn't care and has not even looked a

Re: after Debian update most apps crash - libffi issue?

2021-09-28 Thread Cameron MacPherson
i can confirm that the ppc64 snapshot packages work without illegal instructions On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 12:54 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hi! > > On 9/28/21 21:34, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > OK. I'm regenerating the chroots on the build servers

Re: after Debian update most apps crash - libffi issue?

2021-09-28 Thread Cameron MacPherson
/21 12:58, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:> On 9/28/21 12:55, > Cameron MacPherson wrote: > >> after building and installing it locally using your commands (i had to > add > >> --no-sign to dpkg-buildpackage) it works. no illegal instructions > > > > Well, that&#x

Re: after Debian update most apps crash - libffi issue?

2021-09-28 Thread Cameron MacPherson
after building and installing it locally using your commands (i had to add --no-sign to dpkg-buildpackage) it works. no illegal instructions On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 3:08 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hi Cameron! > > On 9/28/21 11:38, Cam

Re: after Debian update most apps crash - libffi issue?

2021-09-28 Thread Cameron MacPherson
i recompiled everything with gcc-10 and there is no change vs gcc version 11 On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 2:24 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 9/28/21 11:22, Cameron MacPherson wrote: > > after running the commands you listed i repeated my proce

Re: after Debian update most apps crash - libffi issue?

2021-09-28 Thread Cameron MacPherson
after running the commands you listed i repeated my process with the new libffi.so.8 from v3.4.2 vs HEAD and there is no change. both of them work. i am using gcc 11.2.0-7 On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 2:07 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hi Cameron! &g

Re: after Debian update most apps crash - libffi issue?

2021-09-28 Thread Cameron MacPherson
d in the libff8 package. i dont know the standard way of verifying which library is being used. On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 1:40 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hello! > > On 9/28/21 10:33, Cameron MacPherson wrote: > > after ./autogen.sh &&am

Re: after Debian update most apps crash - libffi issue?

2021-09-28 Thread Cameron MacPherson
Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hello! > > On 9/28/21 06:18, Cameron MacPherson wrote: > > i too am having problems with libffi8 on a powermac g5 > > > > # dmesg > > ... > > [ 16.257543] fail2ban-server[384]: illegal instruction (4) a

Re: after Debian update most apps crash - libffi issue?

2021-09-27 Thread Cameron MacPherson
i too am having problems with libffi8 on a powermac g5 # dmesg ... [ 16.257543] fail2ban-server[384]: illegal instruction (4) at 3fffb4283970 nip 3fffb4283970 lr 3fffb4282f90 code 1 in libffi.so.8.1.0[3fffb427b000+c000] ... # ls -l libffi* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 68696 Feb 20 2021 libffi.so.7.1.

Re: iMac G5 "windfarm"

2021-01-03 Thread Cameron MacPherson
On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 1:30 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 1/3/21 10:25 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > The stuff is open source, if anyone is interested in getting this fixed, > please > > start reading the code and help me. > > FWIW, the source

Re: iMac G5 "windfarm"

2020-12-30 Thread Cameron MacPherson
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 2:55 PM Riccardo Mottola wrote: > But yaboot doesn't find it, so I have to boot "old". Maybe this is part > of the issue. > make sure you run ybin -v after making changes cam

Re: ppc64 testing binutils

2020-12-27 Thread Cameron MacPherson
/show_bug.cgi?id=27100 cam On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 12:24 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Hi Cameron! > > On 12/16/20 9:10 PM, Cameron MacPherson wrote: > > after upgrading to binutils 2.35.50.20201125-1 while attempting to > compile > >

Re: ppc64 testing binutils

2020-12-17 Thread Cameron MacPherson
it further or report it elsewhere. make KERNELRELEASE=5.10.1 ARCH=powerpc KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION=1 -f ./Makefile [...] CC init/main.o ld: final link failed: bad value make[4]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:279: init/main.o] Error 1 cam On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 6:05 AM Elimar Riesebieter wrote:

ppc64 testing binutils

2020-12-16 Thread Cameron MacPherson
after upgrading to binutils 2.35.50.20201125-1 while attempting to compile kernel 5.10.1 i get this error: $ make V=1 bindeb-pkg CC init/main.o [..]scripts/genksyms/genksyms -R -r /dev/null > init/.tmp_main.ver; ld -EB -m elf64ppc -r -o init/.tmp_main.o init/main.o -T init/.tmp_main.ver; mv

Re: low vision

2011-03-06 Thread Ross Cameron
Thankyou for spamming us. Any concern we might have had for you're plight has now been blighted from the earth. "Opportunity is most often missed by people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." Thomas Alva Edison Inventor of 1093 patents, including: The light

RE: comparing x86 and powerpc laptops

2003-04-09 Thread Michael Cameron
>> > All these laptops have built in modems too. >> > >> But beware, some are winmodems. > >Not all of them ? > Possibly true, I haven't been shopping for a laptop for a long time though I thought that some Sonys and possibly some Dells had non-winmodems. Perhaps better advice would be to watch ou

RE: RS6000 model 44p 170

2003-04-09 Thread Michael Cameron
> >I am in the process of updating/simplifying my HOWTO and adding precompiled >kernels that can be downloaded from my web site. If you have a kernel that should work on my system I'd be more than happy to try it, and the updated howto, and provide feedback. Michael Cameron

RE: comparing x86 and powerpc laptops

2003-04-09 Thread Michael Cameron
> All these laptops have built in modems too. > But beware, some are winmodems.

RE: RS6000 model 44p 170

2003-04-08 Thread Michael Cameron
> >I'm downloading the image from your site just now. I'm not sure what you >mean when you say I can boot from a network, my network here consists of a >couple of laptops and the RS6000, none of which is a boot server. Do you >mean that I could boot from a public server (which is not >appealing)

RE: RS6000 model 44p 170

2003-04-08 Thread Michael Cameron
> >I booted with a kernel image from SuSE. You can download one on: >http://cronos.dci.ubiobio.cl/~gpoo/rs6000/ > >You can boot from network, as howto says. My dhcp configuration >has a section as: > >host power3 { ># Desde el OpenFirmware de IBM 7044-140P: ># 0> boot net console=ttyS0

RS6000 model 44p 170

2003-04-08 Thread Michael Cameron
lp or assistance greatly appreciated, thanks in advance. Michael Cameron

Re: TiBook CPU clock?

2002-06-21 Thread cameron
yes, a slower processer generally performs, well, slower. /*C*/ On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Peter Downs wrote: > Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:46:22 -0500 > From: Peter Downs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: David Anthony Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Coie <[EMAIL

X-Windows & NewWorld Macs

2002-04-20 Thread Cameron MacFarland
Hi, I'm having trouble getting x-windows to run on my NewWorld Mac. Specifically it's a Quicksilver 733Mhz with a NVidia GeForce 2MMX. My problem seems to be the video card. I found an older message which said to download and compile the driver from the NVidia website but I can't seem to do t

Re: kaffe only for i386?

2001-06-12 Thread Cameron Berkenpas
PM +, Cameron Berkenpas wrote: > > > I used to work for Transvirtual, the firm responsibly for kaffe. I > > personally, several times, asedk them about PowerPC support. They > > seemed interested, but whenever I tried mentioning we should get some Macs > > for developm

Re: kaffe only for i386?

2001-06-12 Thread Cameron Berkenpas
gged them. They did like the idea, they just weren't too interested in it compared to the projects they were already working on. *Shrug*. -Cameron On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Chris Tillman wrote: > > I used to work for Transvirtual, the firm responsibly for kaffe. I > > personally,

Re: kaffe only for i386?

2001-06-11 Thread Cameron Berkenpas
eday but not today or any time soon for that matter. I suppose it's a good thing I didn't let them use my mac, I still haven't gotten my sparc back from them =D. -Cameron On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Russell Hires wrote: > Hello all, > > I've just installed kde, and I

Re: reiserfs empirical study (very long)

2001-06-04 Thread Cameron Berkenpas
When I asked if you had tried the system with smp off, I meant, did you try it with it off and did the system stop crashing? It was just an idea for narrowing down the problem (like it might not necessarily be an smp issue). Sorry for not being mnore clear on that. -Cameron On Thu, 31 May 2001

Re: reiserfs empirical study (very long)

2001-05-30 Thread Cameron Berkenpas
've ever had a crash, using 2.2 or 2.4.. So I don't know why you've had trouble. Have you tried using a 2.4 kernel without smp on? I'm using ext2fs BTW. If you're interested, I could send you my kernel config file. Hope this info was helpful. -Cameron On Wed, 30

Re: reiserfs empirical study (very long)

2001-05-30 Thread Cameron Berkenpas
I thought I read somewhere that XFS is working on PPC.. I take it that info was incorrect? -Cameron On Wed, 30 May 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: > Anton Blanchard wrote: > > > > Me wrote: > > > The big endian patches change the code to use little endian ordering > >

Re: additional information ad 'which NIC runs under linux/ppc?'

2001-05-30 Thread Cameron Berkenpas
Actually, I've met people who have had trouble using the netgear fa310 in their pc's where the crd went very slow.. But I've had no trouble like that at all in my or my mac. So I would suppose YMMV. On Wed, 30 May 2001, Peter Cordes wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:52:1

Re: additional information ad 'which NIC runs under linux/ppc?'

2001-05-29 Thread Cameron Berkenpas
I'm using a Netgear FA310TX card in my mac without problems. In fact, it runs quite well. This card has no MacOS drivers, I just decided to see if it'd work in linux. The NIC the KN (or whatever it's called) models 110 and 111 that are shipped with external used by pacbell, are also tulip based car

Re: GNU/Linux, NetBSD and Mac OS X

2001-05-22 Thread Cameron Berkenpas
stem. You've been warned. Hope that info was helpful. -Cameron On Tue, 22 May 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 12:57:35PM -0700, Matt Brubeck wrote: > > Hi. I can't answer all of your questions, but here's a start. Good luck! > > > > On

Re: Questions about kernel 2.4.4

2001-05-22 Thread Cameron Berkenpas
e building working 2.4 kernels for powerpc? I have had almost no trouble with 2.2 kernels though.. -Cameron On 22 May 2001, Leandro Noferini wrote: > Ciao a tutti, > > I compiled a kernel from my iBook using the sources from the > kernel-sources-2.4.4 package a

Re: mozilla M17-3

2000-10-12 Thread Cameron Berkenpas
This explains why it wouldn't work on my x86 box hehe. On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > Sergio Brandano wrote: > > > > Package: mozilla > > Version: M17-3 (powerpc) > > > > Description of bug: > > > > -> mozilla > > Starting Mozilla > > Segmentation fault > > Solution:

Re: mozilla M17-3

2000-10-12 Thread Cameron Berkenpas
I get that EXACT same error with mozilla for x86 (yes, debian). I have yet to try mozilla for ppc though. On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Sergio Brandano wrote: > > Package: mozilla > Version: M17-3 (powerpc) > > Description of bug: > > -> mozilla > Starting Mozilla > Segmentation fault > -> > > > --

Re: 2.4 kernel

2000-10-10 Thread Cameron Berkenpas
Ok, that makes sense, Thanks for the help. On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 03:44:52PM +0000, Cameron Berkenpas wrote: > > But isn't yaboot really meant for g3 or newer Macs? > > yes, i think he missed that we were talking about quik. the

Re: 2.4 kernel

2000-10-10 Thread Cameron Berkenpas
But isn't yaboot really meant for g3 or newer Macs? On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Matt Brubeck wrote: > On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Cameron Berkenpas wrote: > > > Wow. Thanks. So the file format is basically like that of lilo or at least > > close to it? > > > > To set Mac

Re: 2.4 kernel

2000-10-10 Thread Cameron Berkenpas
Wow. Thanks. So the file format is basically like that of lilo or at least close to it? To set MacOS up with lilo, it would something like this? other = /dev/hda1 table = /dev/hda label = MacOS On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:09:25AM +0000, Came

Re: 2.4 kernel

2000-10-09 Thread Cameron Berkenpas
Oh, I'm sorry, I misunderstood. So ya, it does answer my question. Thanks. On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Cameron Berkenpas wrote: > > > How do you get 2.4 to boot? Do you use bootx? > > >From my original post, as quoted in your email: > > >

Re: 2.4 kernel

2000-10-09 Thread Cameron Berkenpas
Not really, quik != bootx Where can I find some docs on quik? Does it allow me to boot without having macos? I'd love to remove MacOS, as it crashes more than windows. -Cameron On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Cameron Berkenpas wrote: > > > How do you get 2.4 to

Re: 2.4 kernel

2000-10-06 Thread Cameron Berkenpas
How do you get 2.4 to boot? Do you use bootx? On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > > Sorry about the last e-mail, I didn't put anything into it, hehe. Anyway, > > > 2.2 kernels, at least 2.2.16 doesn't have a fb support for the 3dfx > > > voodoo3, which I wa

Re: 2.4 kernel

2000-10-04 Thread Cameron Berkenpas
cards for that matter. -Cameron On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > Well, don't I need to use the frame buffer or does XFree 4 get around this > > problem? > > What exactly is the problem? Missing support for a particular frame > buffer in 2.2? > > Michael > >

Re: 2.4 kernel

2000-10-04 Thread Cameron Berkenpas
Well, don't I need to use the frame buffer or does XFree 4 get around this problem? On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 01:50:14AM +, Cameron Berkenpas wrote: > > I can't seem to create a working 2.4 kernel in debian ppc. > > Maybe t

2.4 kernel

2000-10-04 Thread Cameron Berkenpas
Also, I'd rather avoid using MacOS together, it's possible to have li8nux bootable without macos using the open firmware? How do I access the open firmware? -Cameron

Re: PB 3400 X server config

2000-08-10 Thread Cameron
It works with the BusMouse protocol. In fact, I fixed that problem over a week ago but oh well. GPM in fact, does not work but then I have never tried to configure it. Thanks. -Cameron On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > michael baldwin wrote: > > > > I

Mouse and key board

2000-08-05 Thread Cameron
the space it's currently on (I hope this is making sense). -Cameron

Re: X Free

2000-07-28 Thread Cameron
Woohoo! Finally got X up and helix/gnome is tolerable with a single buton mouse (I'm getting a 3 button ps2 anyway). X Wouldn't work cause I had to set a res for console X was set to run off. I didn't know this until I started sifting through quite a few docs. Anyway, one last problem, it's proba

Re: Yow! No X mouse with 2.2.17

2000-07-25 Thread Cameron
Try running X without gpm running, see if that fixes it. On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: > I just updated by PB3400 with the latest packages from frozen, which > included a 2.2.17 kernel (The .deb says pre11, the kernel just says 2.2.17 > when it boots). > > GPM mouse works on co

Re: xconfigurator or something

2000-07-25 Thread Cameron
onfig? Thanks. On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Nelson Abramson wrote: > Cameron wrote: > > > Can someone tell me where I can get an rpm (shudder) of xconfigurator or > > some other tool for simplifying the setup of X? I've had basically no luck > > with setting up X manually. >

Re: X Free

2000-07-25 Thread Cameron
I do indeed have the matroxfb driver for the console. On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > Cameron wrote: > > > > I have to use the same settings as my frame buffer? > > Do you use matroxfb or offb for the console? In the latter case you are indeed >

xconfigurator or something

2000-07-25 Thread Cameron
Can someone tell me where I can get an rpm (shudder) of xconfigurator or some other tool for simplifying the setup of X? I've had basically no luck with setting up X manually.

Re: X Free

2000-07-24 Thread Cameron
Ah, ok. I'll work on this when I get home from work and see what I can do, thanks. -Cameron On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Matt Brubeck wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Cameron wrote: > > > I have to use the same settings as my frame buffer? How can I get around > > this, I wanna ru

Re: X Free

2000-07-24 Thread Cameron
I have to use the same settings as my frame buffer? How can I get around this, I wanna run something like 1024 x 768 or perhaps 1280 x 1024. Both of these modes with 16 bpp (or as high as I can get away with). With a matrox g200 (I think that's what it is, I got the thing just a few days ago), what

Re: X Free

2000-07-24 Thread Cameron
Both of these come in the debian packages(I'm not at home right now to check)? I'm using a matrox (g200 I think). On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Nelson Abramson wrote: > Cameron wrote: > > > I'm using XFree 3.3.6 (I "apt-got" it). > > Oh, sorry about t

Re: X Free

2000-07-24 Thread Cameron
I'm using XFree 3.3.6 (I "apt-got" it). On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Nelson Abramson wrote: > Cameron wrote: > > > What util does xfree86 use for configuring X on powermac? > > I at least want to know how to have a nice res without ANY virtual screen > > space (I

X Free

2000-07-24 Thread Cameron
What util does xfree86 use for configuring X on powermac? I at least want to know how to have a nice res without ANY virtual screen space (I find that to be very annoying). I have like a matrox 200 with 4 megs of ram or something, so I know I can do at least something decent. Thanks. Cameron

Booting install system

2000-07-23 Thread Cameron
Ok, I have a starmax 4000/200 (200 mhz 604e). I wanna put debian on this thing. Now, making a boot floppy (with my intel debian box) won't work. It just spits the floppy out during boot up. Any ideas on how to get around that? I've been trying to get bootx working(as the boot floppy isn't working

To those in .au

1999-04-28 Thread Cameron Andrews
.. Thanx.. Byes. -- Regards, Cameron Andrews. -- SysAdmin for: Soft-Tech Information Services / Brisnet Star Hub http://www.st.net.au / http://www.star.brisnet.org.au And: My personal project, Darkrealm.net http://www.darkrealm.net