Re: POWER8-based Desktop machine

2016-02-03 Thread nello martuscielli
It seems really cute! Cheers, Nello -- http://linuxpowerpc.blogspot.com/ Il 03 feb 2016 1:42 PM, "Breno Leitao" ha scritto: > Just found on the web: > > Talos™ is the world's first ATX workstation-class mainboard for the new, > open-source friendly IBM POWER8 processor and architecture. Raptor

Re: RadeonHD Video Board On Quad G5?

2014-06-25 Thread nello martuscielli
thanks for sharing this. nello, On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:21 PM, Luigi Burdo wrote: > I can confirm the RadeonHD 4650 pci working on QuadG5 > this video boards working under LinuxPPC > On Lubuntu i had video and audio output thru hdmi. > here an Example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp_IvG7h

Re: powerpc gparted live cd

2014-02-02 Thread nello martuscielli
if you are able to work with parted (not gparted) then you could try an old cruxppc iso or finnix. cheers, Nello On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Gunther Furtado wrote: > >> > Is there a link to downloading a gparted live cd that will work with a >> > powerpc mac? >> >> Have you looked to see

Re: AmigaOne X1000/Nemo PowerPC Motherboard

2013-11-21 Thread nello martuscielli
well, cheap like a second hand POWER7 system :-D --nello On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Christian Zigotzky wrote: > Just for info: > > A-EON's Christmas Cracker! : Special offer on Nemo PowerPC Motherboards for > the holiday season. > -- my blog: http://linuxpowerpc.blogspot.com -- Power Ma

Re: Compile error: powerpc-utils-1.2.16

2013-02-13 Thread nello martuscielli
> …. > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lrtas > you have to install librtas as needed dependency. E.g. from my cruxppc 64bit system: root@9114-275:/home/nello# ilenia -D powerpc-utils --all librtas [installed] ncurses [installed] readline [installed] sqlite3 [installed] libservicelog [installed] serv

Re: ATLAS on PowerPC

2012-07-05 Thread nello martuscielli
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > [please keep the bug in Cc:, I’m not subscribed to the list] > > Dear PowerPC porters, > > As a co-maintainer of atlas, I intend to force a specific PowerPC CPU > architecture when the package is built on buildds (in order to fix > #68009

Re: Video Card Help - IBM POWER5

2012-01-24 Thread nello martuscielli
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Mark Benson wrote: > >> As a matter of interest what did you do to get yaboot up and running? If I >> am remembering correctly I had to open a virtual console at the end of the >> installation and type dd if=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot of=/dev/sda1 to copy >> yaboo

Re: Bubba2 as a power pc is OT on this list, or isn't?

2012-01-06 Thread nello martuscielli
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Hi, > > I have the Bubba Two headless server that is a Power PC. > http://www.excito.com > > The Bubba 2 has Debian Etch operating system. > It has different kernel than the standard Debian releases and has > special bubba debian packages. > > C

Re: Remove memory DLPAR operation fails for Debian 6.0.3 on IBM Power6 and Power7 Systems

2012-01-04 Thread nello martuscielli
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Frank Fegert wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 01:14:12PM +0100, nello martuscielli wrote: >> why don't you directly build them from sources? >> I cannot test drmgr as my old machines don't support it but i'm able >

Re: Remove memory DLPAR operation fails for Debian 6.0.3 on IBM Power6 and Power7 Systems

2011-12-31 Thread nello martuscielli
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Frank Fegert wrote: > Hello all, > > i'm currently trying to get the whole DLPAR/LPM thing to work on our Debian > (v6.0.3) Linux LPARs. So far i've sucessfully converted the following RPMs > to DEB with alien: >    devices.chrp.base.servicerm_2.3.0.0-11231 >    dy

Re: How to install on Power Mac G5 from USB stick

2011-06-24 Thread nello martuscielli
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > Read the installation instructions for MintPPC. It has a section about > booting a Debian installer from USB... > Is this the right page? http://www.mintppc.org/content/installation-instructions 'cause i got: Access denied You are not

Re: YDL PowerStation and Squeeze Graphics Colour issue

2011-04-05 Thread nello martuscielli
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Pat Wall wrote: > Hi All > > I have a YDL PowerStation that I used with YDL 6.1/6.2 since I purchased it > from Fixstars. I have now decided to move to Debian Squeeze as YDL is no > longer supported. > > I installed a default Debian system using the 6.0.1a netinst i

Re: Debian won't boot after removal of video card

2011-01-24 Thread nello martuscielli
2011/1/24 Michel Dänzer : _cut__ >> >> Anyway so has anyone come across this issue of PPC's not booting up >> properly after removal of a video card? > > Yes, see > > http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2010-March/081324.html > > great hint, thank you. I encountered the same issue on m

Re: Font Led

2011-01-19 Thread nello martuscielli
well, great news. It seems that JoseJX (Gentoo PPC) already prepaired a working patch and now this one was reworked by Acrux (CRUX PPC) for linux-2.6.37 here you can read about: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6550023.html cheers, Nello -- Power Mac G4 AGP 450MHz - CRUX PPC (32bit) -- To

Re: Unofficial Squeeze NetInst CDs: call for testers

2010-12-18 Thread nello martuscielli
2010/12/18 Aurélien GÉRÔME : _cut.. > > Basically, Yaboot upstream maintainers are IBM folks.  Knowning that, > take into account that IBM pSeries only come with official RedHat > support and that RedHat no longer cares about any other machines > than pSeries (for reference, see the dropped hfsuti

Re: Squeeze

2010-11-11 Thread nello martuscielli
hi Risto, why don'tyou submit them to ALSA developer to include your patch in the official tree?? cheers, Nello On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Risto Suominen wrote: > Hi, > > My ALSA patches can be applied in the sound directory of the kernel > source tree with -p2. > > Or should they be for

Re: Dd xcf to hfs bootblock or not?

2010-10-13 Thread nello martuscielli
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Super Bisquit wrote: > boot hd:,ofwboot /bsd > but why should I? > > Or do I place the file somewhere else? > > The OpenBSD partition resides on hdb6. I created an hfs bootblock on hdb5. > > > maybe... you'll have more info looking for help on yaboot-users mailin

Re: Font Led

2010-09-15 Thread nello martuscielli
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * nello martuscielli [100915 14:26 +0200]: > [...] >> @Elimar >> >> you cannot overwrite but you can tune it. >> e.g. to use the led to blink when your airport ext. receives something: >> >&g

Re: Font Led

2010-09-15 Thread nello martuscielli
>> The front led of my mid 2005 iBook is showing the PATA disk activity >> after I added the following line to /etc/sysfs.conf >> >> class/leds/pmu-led::front/trigger = ide-disk >> >> and then restarted the /etc/init.d/sysfsutils service (from sysfsutils >> package). > > That doesn't work > >> You

Re: Font Led

2010-09-14 Thread nello martuscielli
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > Hi all, > > does one know ho wto get the front led triggering on pata HD > aktivity? This is on my PB G4 last generation. > > Thanks in advance > Elimar > that's right. I;ve the same issue and i don't have yet understood to enable front

Re: debian-powerpc support

2010-08-28 Thread nello martuscielli
in my experience (as user) in embedded powerpc product (civil and environmental engineering tergetted) I only sow some industrial product based on a Crux PPC hardly customized. Btw, i suppose that Debian is always a great choice. cheers, nello -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ..

Re: Can't install acpi-support (no acpi-fakekey for PPC)

2010-08-13 Thread nello martuscielli
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Tom McAvaney wrote: >> Now I know the hardware supports sleep, since OS X can do it.  [dig >> dig dig]  Ahh, I see that pmud has not been updated since 2001, and >> its README only mentions PowerBook G3. > > I don't have a G4 to confirm whether this works, but this

Re: Installing Debian Lenny on MacMini G4

2010-07-27 Thread nello martuscielli
hi, really a strange situations. Try to boot with a different distro's boot iso (like Gentoo or Crux). So you can understand if it's a problem related to the iso or the cdrom driver. regards, -- Power Mac G4 AGP 450MHz - CRUX PPC (32bit)/DebianPPC Power Mac G5 dual 1.8 PCI-X - CRUX PPC (64bit)/Ti

Re: please take a look at Debian Bug#589701: installation-reports: Install yaboot on a hard disk - Failed to install boot loader

2010-07-21 Thread nello martuscielli
anyway any suggestions for a better yaboot[1] development 'd go here: https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/yaboot-devel [1] http://yaboot.ozlabs.org/ -- Power Mac G4 AGP 450MHz - CRUX PPC (32bit)/DebianPPC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: please take a look at Debian Bug#589701: installation-reports: Install yaboot on a hard disk - Failed to install boot loader

2010-07-20 Thread nello martuscielli
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > At this point, Debian squeeze is un-installable on NewWorld PowerPC Macs due > to yaboot's failure to adapt to the use of UUID= and LABEL= format in > /etc/fstab. > >        http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589701 > > I have pro

Re: installing on PPC Mac Mini without any OS installed

2010-07-20 Thread nello martuscielli
mmh, maybe a good trick could be to use a crux-ppc iso to partition the disk (you need to do it by hand using mac-fdisk as explained in cruxppc handbook) or a gentoo-ppc iso (same as above) and after that go forward to install your Debian. regards, -- Power Mac G4 AGP 450MHz - CRUX PPC (32bit) /

Re: Sound on PowerMac G4 (digital audio)

2010-07-17 Thread nello martuscielli
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 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 > all the oth

Re: g5 install problem

2010-05-31 Thread nello martuscielli
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Ron Brooks wrote: > Hi, I joined this group hoping for a solution so here's the problem. I > have a Powermac G5 1.6 single processor that I've tried many times to > install Debian. The install goes fine...but on reboot up comes the > black bootstrap screen which as

Re: ibm java

2010-05-26 Thread nello martuscielli
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 4:48 PM, David Medina wrote: > what is the link to download that?. Seriosly, i didn't find. > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/linux/download.html -nello -- Power Mac G4 AGP 450MHz - Debian PPC/CRUX PPC (32bit) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ.

Re: Debian or ubuntu

2010-03-17 Thread nello martuscielli
>> ok, but what's about the bootloader? Is yaboot able to work with these >> "new devices" ? > > As Gary said, it's no different from a traditionnal PATA disk : it > conforms to the ATA standard. I did everything as usual, just aligning > correctly the partitions (I must say I did it manually). I a

Re: Debian or ubuntu

2010-03-16 Thread nello martuscielli
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Benjamin Cama wrote: > > BTW, the PPC platform is still kind of updated kernel-wise, as the macio > libata driver landed in 2.6.33 thanks to benh. It allows to use the > "new" ATA stack in the kernel, as the old one will disappear some day. I > tested a patched 2.

Re: Running Debian Lenny on PowerMac G5

2010-02-24 Thread nello martuscielli
2010/2/24 Tiresia Giuno : > > > > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:58:05 +0100 > Michel Dänzer wrote: >> On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 00:04 +0100, Tiresia Giuno wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:47:13 +0100 >> > Michel Dänzer wrote: >> > > On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 20:14 +0100, Tiresia Giuno wrote: >> > >

Re: debian on imac G4?

2010-02-17 Thread nello martuscielli
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 1:06 AM, williamd wrote: > > Anything more i can try to configure x? > > A million thanks for your help!! > here are collected a lot of xorg.conf files http://mac.linux.be/content/cross-distribution-issues hope this helps, ppc.addon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian