Re: Windfarm on Mac G5 not working

2020-03-12 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 3/12/20 4:23 PM, Carlos Rodrigues wrote: > I installed Debian and made all updates to the system, after all the updates, > when I run the command, > > sudo /sbin/modprobe windfarm-core > > the fans continue to run at full speed See: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199471

Windfarm on Mac G5 not working

2020-03-12 Thread Carlos Rodrigues
I installed Debian and made all updates to the system, after all the updates, when I run the command, sudo /sbin/modprobe windfarm-core the fans continue to run at full speed

Re: Debian 10 on Mac Mini G4

2020-03-04 Thread Sante Nocciolino
Il 04/03/2020 18:00, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ha scritto: On 3/4/20 5:01 PM, Sante Nocciolino wrote: At the moment I've an issue connecting with putty via SSH from my Windows machine to Debian. Some day ago was working, now after some updates does not work any more. Putty says "Couldn't agree

Re: Debian 10 on Mac Mini G4

2020-03-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 3/4/20 5:01 PM, Sante Nocciolino wrote: > At the moment I've an issue connecting with putty via SSH from my Windows > machine to Debian. > Some day ago was working, now after some updates does not work any more. > Putty says "Couldn't agree a key exchange algorithm ..." Does logging in from a

Re: Debian 10 on Mac Mini G4

2020-03-04 Thread Sante Nocciolino
Il 04/03/2020 12:50, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ha scritto: On 3/4/20 12:29 PM, Sante Nocciolino wrote: My output looks like: ghc:   Installed: (none)   Candidate: 8.8.1+dfsg1+is+8.6.5+dfsg1-2+b1   Version table: 8.8.3-1~exp2 1   1 http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports exper

Re: Debian 10 on Mac Mini G4

2020-03-04 Thread Sante Nocciolino
Il 04/03/2020 12:10, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ha scritto: Hi Sante! On 3/4/20 10:11 AM, Sante Nocciolino wrote: I installed Debian 10 on my Mac Mini G4 1.5Ghz Radeon 9200 with 1GB RAM. I installed this http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-11-22/debian-10.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso Booting

Re: Debian 10 on Mac Mini G4

2020-03-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 3/4/20 12:29 PM, Sante Nocciolino wrote: > My output looks like: > > ghc: >   Installed: (none) >   Candidate: 8.8.1+dfsg1+is+8.6.5+dfsg1-2+b1 >   Version table: > 8.8.3-1~exp2 1 >   1 http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports experimental/main > powerpc Packages > 8.8.1+dfsg1

Re: Debian 10 on Mac Mini G4

2020-03-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Sante! On 3/4/20 10:11 AM, Sante Nocciolino wrote: > I installed Debian 10 on my Mac Mini G4 1.5Ghz Radeon 9200 with 1GB RAM. > I installed this > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-11-22/debian-10.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso > Booting with yaboot, creating a separate /boot partition in e

Debian 10 on Mac Mini G4

2020-03-04 Thread Sante Nocciolino
Hi everybody, I installed Debian 10 on my Mac Mini G4 1.5Ghz Radeon 9200 with 1GB RAM. I installed this http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-11-22/debian-10.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso Booting with yaboot, creating a separate /boot partition in ext2 while the root is ext4 I installed webmin an

Re: Status of OpenGL on Mac

2019-09-26 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Adrian John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: One can just add the main archive with: den [arch=all]http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable contrib non-free to one’s sources.list and run “apt update”. this worked! Actually, on one of the two laptops I have I left "sid" instead of unstable. Fixe

Re: Status of OpenGL on Mac

2019-09-19 Thread Michael Cree
On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 09:26:31PM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > Also, have you installed the firmware-amd-graphics package which contains > > firmware necessary for many AMD/ATI cards? If I remember correctly, the > > firmware is needed on the G4 laptops with a Radeon chipset. > > you got it

Re: Status of OpenGL on Mac

2019-09-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> On Sep 19, 2019, at 9:38 PM, Michael Cree wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 09:26:31PM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote: >>> Also, have you installed the firmware-amd-graphics package which contains >>> firmware necessary for many AMD/ATI cards? If I remember correctly, the >>> firmware is ne

Re: Status of OpenGL on Mac

2019-09-19 Thread Riccardo Mottola
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: It looks like you are using software rendering anyway. What does "glxinfo" say? Can you paste the output here? name of display: :0 display: :0  screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.4 server glx extensions:  

Re: Status of OpenGL on Mac

2019-09-19 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 9/18/19 8:14 PM, Riccaro Mottola wrote: first, I noticed something very strange: if I connect remotely to the PowerBook, then set DISPLAY :0 which shows things on the screen, glxgears run! Running GL applications through X forwarding is completely diff

Re: Status of OpenGL on Mac

2019-09-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 9/19/19 9:43 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 9/18/19 8:14 PM, Riccaro Mottola wrote: first, I noticed something very strange: if I connect remotely to the PowerBook, then set DISPLAY :0 which shows things on the screen, glxgears run! Running GL applications through X forwarding is

Re: Status of OpenGL on Mac

2019-09-19 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 9/18/19 8:14 PM, Riccaro Mottola wrote: first, I noticed something very strange: if I connect remotely to the PowerBook, then set DISPLAY :0 which shows things on the screen, glxgears run! Running GL applications through X forwarding is completely different than running them locally. When g

Re: Status of OpenGL on Mac

2019-09-18 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi Riccardo, On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 8:14 PM Riccaro Mottola wrote: > > Hi Mathieu, > > On 2019-09-18 08:56:08 +0200 Mathieu Malaterre > wrote: > > > > > >> Hi all! > > > >> is anybody capable of using OpenGL on their PowerMacs? > > > > Do you mean on your PowerBook G4 ? That's odd it should wor

Re: Status of OpenGL on Mac

2019-09-18 Thread Riccaro Mottola
Hi Mathieu, On 2019-09-18 08:56:08 +0200 Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Hi all! is anybody capable of using OpenGL on their PowerMacs? Do you mean on your PowerBook G4 ? That's odd it should work. Can you dump more context, eg, running through gdb or strace. first, I noticed something ve

Re: Status of OpenGL on Mac

2019-09-17 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi, On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 8:21 AM Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > Hi all! > > is anybody capable of using OpenGL on their PowerMacs? Do you mean on your PowerBook G4 ? That's odd it should work. Can you dump more context, eg, running through gdb or strace. > I noticed that just starting glxgears

Status of OpenGL on Mac

2019-09-17 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi all! is anybody capable of using OpenGL on their PowerMacs? I noticed that just starting glxgears causes a "Bus error". I don't think this is a good sign. According to lspci, my card is detected as Mobility Radeon 9600. Any special configuration to do? I already put myself part of the vid

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-02-01 Thread userm57
On 2/1/19 8:57 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Feb 1, 2019, at 4:38 PM, user...@yahoo.com wrote: The Lombard is NewWorld, so yaboot works.  Yes, BootX is needed for OldWorld systems.

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-02-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> On Feb 1, 2019, at 4:38 PM, user...@yahoo.com wrote: > > The Lombard is NewWorld, so yaboot works. Yes, BootX is needed for > OldWorld systems. Quoting [1]: — All PowerPC Macs from the iMac, the iBook, the Blue and White Power Mac G3 and the Bronze Keyboard (Lombard) PowerBook G3forward ar

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-02-01 Thread userm57
On 2/1/19 8:33 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >> On Feb 1, 2019, at 4:25 PM, user...@yahoo.com wrote: >> >>> On 2/1/19 2:19 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: >>> Hi Adrian, >>> >>> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: So, again, unless there are really compelling arguments for using Yaboot

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-02-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> On Feb 1, 2019, at 4:25 PM, user...@yahoo.com wrote: > >> On 2/1/19 2:19 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: >> Hi Adrian, >> >> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >>> So, again, unless there are really compelling arguments for using Yaboot >>> or SILO except for personal preference, I do absolutely s

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-02-01 Thread userm57
On 2/1/19 2:19 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi Adrian, > > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> So, again, unless there are really compelling arguments for using Yaboot >> or SILO except for personal preference, I do absolutely see no reason >> why I should carry the additional maintenance burden f

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-02-01 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Adrian, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: So, again, unless there are really compelling arguments for using Yaboot or SILO except for personal preference, I do absolutely see no reason why I should carry the additional maintenance burden for it. one reason is perhaps that on Macs GRUB is yet

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-01-31 Thread John Ogness
On 2019-01-29, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > If Yaboot actually didn't have any issues with ext4, would actually > build against modern versions of e2fslibs-dev, supporters would have a > point, maybe. Those two issues (outdated e2fslibs-dev and no ext4 support) might actually be the same is

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-01-29 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 1/29/19 9:00 AM, Michael Cree wrote: >> Yaboot is unmaintained upstream and does not support modern ext4 features. In >> order for Yaboot to work properly, you have to turn certain features in ext4 >> off, otherwise it won't work and the boot fails. > > Can you not have an ext3 boot partition a

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-01-29 Thread Michael Cree
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 12:07:38AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > > On Jan 29, 2019, at 12:00 AM, Michael Cree wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:45:10PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >> On 1/28/19 12:34 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > >>> I realize that this may require some progr

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-01-29 Thread Michael Cree
On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:45:10PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 1/28/19 12:34 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > I realize that this may require some programming, but would it be possible > > to have it ask a question early on (maybe at or before the beginning of > > partitioning) requestin

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-01-29 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Jan 29, 2019, at 12:00 AM, Michael Cree wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:45:10PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> On 1/28/19 12:34 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: >>> I realize that this may require some programming, but would it be possible >>> to have it ask a question early on (m

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-01-28 Thread userm57
On 1/28/19 6:53 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 1/28/19 2:30 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: >>> Yaboot is unmaintained upstream and does not support modern ext4 features. >>> In >>> order for Yaboot to work properly, you have to turn certain features in ext4 >>> off, otherwise it won't work and

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-01-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 1/28/19 4:42 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: >>> I believe the current d-i/yaboot-installer expects to install on a HFS >>> bootstrap (though I assume yaboot can also boot from FAT). If the >>> default bootstrap method is changed this would require changes to keep >>> it working. >> >> Yes, but GRUB w

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-01-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Interjecting a little... ] Adrian wrote: > >Plus, having working and usable hfsprogs is still desirable because >Macs tend to have HFS partitions, independent of the bootloader. > >Another difference between Yaboot and hfsprogs is that the latter is >no longer part of unstable while hfsprogs is.

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-01-28 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 1/28/19 15:34, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 1/28/19 3:05 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:>> What would be the gain of implementing this? Sure, it would be possible to implement it. But for what particular reasons and why would it be required for Yaboot? I believe the current d-i/yaboot-ins

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-01-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 1/28/19 3:05 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:>> What would be the gain of implementing this? Sure, it would be possible >> to implement it. But for what particular reasons and why would it be >> required for Yaboot? > > I believe the current d-i/yaboot-installer expects to install on a HFS > bootstra

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-01-28 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 1/28/19 14:42, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 1/28/19 2:18 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Theoretically something similar could be created - at a different place though, i.e. before the partitioning step - to support both HFS and FAT16 bootstrap methods in the installer for NewWorld Power Mac

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-01-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 1/28/19 2:30 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> Yaboot is unmaintained upstream and does not support modern ext4 features. In >> order for Yaboot to work properly, you have to turn certain features in ext4 >> off, otherwise it won't work and the boot fails. >> >> Unless someone picks up maintenance work

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-01-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 1/28/19 2:18 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: >> I don't understand this argument. GRUB works on PowerPC Macs and is >> fully supported or am I missing something? I also works fine on SPARC >> hardware with Sun partition tables. > > We implemented a switch in d-i/grub-installer that allows to install

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-01-28 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Jan 28, 2019, at 3:45 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > On 1/28/19 12:34 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> I realize that this may require some programming, but would it be possible >> to have it ask a question early on (maybe at or before the beginning of >> partitioning) requesting th

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-01-28 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 1/28/19 14:01, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 1/28/19 1:52 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: @Rick: I thought about something like this since Mark reported the bootstrap limits in OpenBIOS. It could in principle work similar to the switch between non-GPT and GPT capable SPARC hardware ([1]). I

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-01-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 1/28/19 1:52 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: > @Rick: > I thought about something like this since Mark reported the bootstrap > limits in OpenBIOS. It could in principle work similar to the switch > between non-GPT and GPT capable SPARC hardware ([1]). I don't understand this argument. GRUB works on

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-01-28 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 1/28/19 12:45, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 1/28/19 12:34 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: I realize that this may require some programming, but would it be possible to have it ask a question early on (maybe at or before the beginning of partitioning) requesting the user to choose between yaboot

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-01-28 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 1/28/19 12:34 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > I realize that this may require some programming, but would it be possible > to have it ask a question early on (maybe at or before the beginning of > partitioning) requesting the user to choose between yaboot and grub? Then > the partitioner would automat

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-01-28 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Jan 28, 2019, at 1:55 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote: > >> {2} Would it be possible to have “install yaboot boot loader” be an >> option on the main menu — parallel to “install grub bootloader”? >> That would be less daunting for beginners who don’t have our level of >> initiation into the Debia

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-01-28 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 1/28/19 10:19, Rick Thomas wrote: When it got to trying to install grub, that failed (as expected). I chose to “continue without boot loader”. It wrapped up and ejected the CD then paused before trying to reboot. While it was paused I switched to the alt- console and did the following{2}:

installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-01-28 Thread Rick Thomas
OK, So I downloaded and burned the NETINST 20190127 CD, and used it to install the powerpc (32 bit) port on my Mac mini G4. All went well as I followed the “install” (not “expert”) script. I manually entered the mirror as “ftp.ports.debian.org” and the directory as “/debian-ports/“. It accep

Re: powerpc NETINST 20190124-23:05 "No installable kernel was found" installing on Mac mini G4

2019-01-27 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 1/27/19 15:27, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 1/27/19 1:04 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: @Adrian: choose-mirror seems to have regressed in some way that it doesn't work anymore even with the correct mirror data. But the corresponding file hasn't been touched since 2017 (see [1]). Why did

Re: powerpc NETINST 20190124-23:05 "No installable kernel was found" installing on Mac mini G4

2019-01-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 1/27/19 1:04 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: > @Adrian: >> choose-mirror seems to have regressed in some way that it doesn't work >> anymore even with >> the correct mirror data. > > But the corresponding file hasn't been touched since 2017 (see [1]). Why > did it then work with older images (tested

Re: powerpc NETINST 20190124-23:05 "No installable kernel was found" installing on Mac mini G4

2019-01-27 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Rick, On 1/27/19 13:38, Rick Thomas wrote: Hi Frank, On Jan 27, 2019, at 4:04 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Dear Adrian, Rick, On 1/27/19 09:41, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 1/27/19 4:16 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: I decided to “continue without installing a kernel” in hopes that I could

Re: powerpc NETINST 20190124-23:05 "No installable kernel was found" installing on Mac mini G4

2019-01-27 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Frank, > On Jan 27, 2019, at 4:04 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote: > > Dear Adrian, Rick, > > On 1/27/19 09:41, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> On 1/27/19 4:16 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >>> I decided to “continue without installing a kernel” in hopes that I could >>> get one from the network repo

Re: powerpc NETINST 20190124-23:05 "No installable kernel was found" installing on Mac mini G4

2019-01-27 Thread Frank Scheiner
Dear Adrian, Rick, On 1/27/19 09:41, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 1/27/19 4:16 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: I decided to “continue without installing a kernel” in hopes that I could get one from the network repo later on. When it came time to choose a network repo, I had no success trying to

Re: powerpc NETINST 20190124-23:05 "No installable kernel was found" installing on Mac mini G4

2019-01-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 1/27/19 4:16 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > So I dug out an old Mac mini G4 and attempted to install the “powerpc NETINST > 20190124-23:05” CD on it. > > I accepted all the defaults (no “expert” mode) until it came up with the error > “No installable kernel was found in the defined APT sources

powerpc NETINST 20190124-23:05 "No installable kernel was found" installing on Mac mini G4

2019-01-26 Thread Rick Thomas
So I dug out an old Mac mini G4 and attempted to install the “powerpc NETINST 20190124-23:05” CD on it. I accepted all the defaults (no “expert” mode) until it came up with the error “No installable kernel was found in the defined APT sources”. This occurred before it went looking for a

Re: debian base system on mac G5 - what next?

2015-06-22 Thread Jonni O'Gorman
thanks thats a great tip! i've tried re-installing several times and actually got the system to install all 3 options i.e. debian desktop environment, xfce, and system utilities unfortunately when I rebooted the screen eventuallty went blank, presumably when X was started - trying again to instal

Re: debian base system on mac G5 - what next?

2015-06-19 Thread http
Dear Jonni, It should be as straightforward as # apt-get install xfce4 apt (and its cousin, aptitude) handles all dependencies automatically. Ordinarily, the CD is excluded as a package source during the install - presumably, you want to use the CD to listen to CDs or watch DVDs or what have yo

debian base system on mac G5 - what next?

2015-06-19 Thread Jonni O'Gorman
HI, using debian-8.1.0-powerpc-xfce-CD-1.iso I managed to get debian 8.1 installed on macG5 today after 3 attempts - 1) I ran into a problem the first time round when trying to install more software - I chose all 3 options provided by the installer ie.Debian Destop environment, xfce and system ut

Squeeze for ppc on mac-mini G4 and bluetooth keyboard A1016

2013-10-14 Thread Ennio-Sr
Hi all, I'm trying to get an Apple wireless keyboard (mod. A1016) to work under Debian-Squeeze for powerpc installed on a Mac-mini PowerPc G4, mid 2005. Bluetooth from Gnome-control-centre says keyboard and mouse have been paired, but AAMOF I can use the mouse only: the keyboard is not responding

Re: Installing debian on mac mini G4

2012-06-17 Thread Christian Lynbech
> "Milan" == Milan Kupcevic writes: Milan> On 06/05/2012 08:23 AM, Christian Lynbech wrote: Milan> boot fw/node/sbp-2/disk:,\install\yaboot Wonderful, it worked, now my mini is happily running Debian. As a longtime Debian user, I should have known that it was just to ask to get a solutio

Re: Installing debian on mac mini G4

2012-06-16 Thread Milan Kupcevic
On 06/05/2012 08:23 AM, Christian Lynbech wrote: I have an old Mac Mini G4 that I would like to install debian on, but I am having some problems getting it to work. The internal CD drive stopped working long ago, I have an external LaCie FW drive but I canot get the installation to work from tha

Re: Installing debian on mac mini G4

2012-06-05 Thread Christian Lynbech
Thanks for all the hints, I have several things to test out and I will let you know how it goes. PS I am not trying to have both OSX and Linux, just Linux will be fine :-) -- Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: Installing debian on mac mini G4

2012-06-05 Thread Hanspeter Spalinger
Hi, I had a similar problem, my internal ATA bus bugged out on my macmini g4. So i had to use a external USB disk and no CD. This is how i did it, but i use only debian, no macosx. If you want both, you need adjust. (Oh, and i have no idea what the problem with the blank and go back to OF is, i se

Re: Installing debian on mac mini G4

2012-06-05 Thread HP
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I had a similar problem, my internal ATA bus bugged out on my macmini g4. So i had to use a external USB disk and no CD. This is how i did it, but i use only debian, no macosx. If you want both, you need adjust. (Oh, and i have no idea what the pr

Re: Installing debian on mac mini G4

2012-06-05 Thread Gunther Furtado
Hi, Em Ter, 2012-06-05 às 22:36 +0200, e20100633 escreveu: > Hello Christian, > > On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 14:23 +0200, Christian Lynbech wrote: > > Anybody knows what is going on or has any ideas how I can debug the > > problem? [...] Well, if you are trying to boot from an external firewire cd d

Re: Installing debian on mac mini G4

2012-06-05 Thread e20100633
Hello Christian, On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 14:23 +0200, Christian Lynbech wrote: > Anybody knows what is going on or has any ideas how I can debug the > problem? I tried to install Debian on my iMac G4 too from CDs couple a mouth ago, but I had the same issue (black screen then back to selection menu

Re: Installing debian on mac mini G4

2012-06-05 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi Christian, I also have an old Mac Mini G4. I could *never* get debian to install using CDs. I eventually burned the first DVD and managed to install debian Lenny. The whole thread is at: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2010/07/msg00097.html I could also never get the installer to w

Installing debian on mac mini G4

2012-06-05 Thread Christian Lynbech
I have an old Mac Mini G4 that I would like to install debian on, but I am having some problems getting it to work. The internal CD drive stopped working long ago, I have an external LaCie FW drive but I canot get the installation to work from that. The symptom I see is that if I boot with Option

Re: Power Management on Mac Mini PowerPC

2011-02-08 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Die, 2011-02-08 at 10:28 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > I am wondering if anyone knows what to install to get suspend/sleep > to work on a debian installation on a mac mini powerpc g4 ? It's not supported by the kernel yet. The biggest hurdle is probably getting the GPU into and out of

Power Management on Mac Mini PowerPC

2011-02-08 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi all, I am wondering if anyone knows what to install to get suspend/sleep to work on a debian installation on a mac mini powerpc g4 ? Thanks ! -- Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Re: Sound drivers detected on Mac Mini and G5, but not Powermac G4

2009-08-09 Thread Ben Finney
Elimar Riesebieter writes: > * Ben Finney [090809 11:47 +1000] > > Ah okay, I was expecting an ALSA patch from 2009-01 to already be in > > kernel 2.6.26. Do you know that patch is in kernel 2.6.30? > > Ben, the Debian Kernels aren't patched with future versions of the > kernel. Right. I had fo

Re: Sound drivers detected on Mac Mini and G5, but not Powermac G4

2009-08-08 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Ben Finney [090809 11:47 +1000] > Elimar Riesebieter writes: > > > What tells > > # cat /proc/asound/version > > $ cat /proc/asound/version > Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.16. This is without the snd-aoa_snd_powermac patch :( > > > Patching the debian alsa-driver sou

Re: Auto detection of audio hardware and driver loading on powerpc (was: Sound drivers detected on Mac Mini and G5, but not Powermac G4)

2009-08-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 01:16:43PM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : > Ben Finney writes: > > If ‘snd-powermac’ would work on this machine, > why is that not the module that gets loaded? > I think that is being adressed: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=525946 -- Charles -- To UNS

Auto detection of audio hardware and driver loading on powerpc (was: Sound drivers detected on Mac Mini and G5, but not Powermac G4)

2009-08-08 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney writes: > How can I diagnose, then, why the ‘snd-aoa’ modules are loaded on this > machine (with no explicit request or configuration that I know of), > and why the ‘snd-powermac’ module is not loaded? I'm still baffled by this. If ‘snd-powermac’ would work on this machine, why is tha

Re: Sound drivers detected on Mac Mini and G5, but not Powermac G4

2009-08-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 11:47:16AM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : > > Ah okay, I was expecting an ALSA patch from 2009-01 to already be in > kernel 2.6.26. Do you know that patch is in kernel 2.6.30? Hi Ben, on my amd64 system it is: aqwa『~』$ uname -a Linux aqwa 2.6.30-1-amd64 #1 SMP Sat Jul 18 12

Re: Sound drivers detected on Mac Mini and G5, but not Powermac G4

2009-08-08 Thread Ben Finney
Elimar Riesebieter writes: > What tells > # cat /proc/asound/version $ cat /proc/asound/version Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.16. > Patching the debian alsa-driver sources is not needed as we use native > alsa-lib, though. I assume that your driver version doesn't match

Re: Sound drivers detected on Mac Mini and G5, but not Powermac G4

2009-08-08 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Ben Finney [090808 13:38 +1000] > Risto Suominen writes: > > > I'm quite sure that snd-aoa does not support Tumbler or older > > hardware, probably never will. > > Fortunately, the ALSA project has committed a chenge to support some > older machines, including the PowerMac G4 Silver that I hav

Re: Sound drivers detected on Mac Mini and G5, but not Powermac G4

2009-08-07 Thread Ben Finney
Risto Suominen writes: > I'm quite sure that snd-aoa does not support Tumbler or older > hardware, probably never will. Fortunately, the ALSA project has committed a chenge to support some older machines, including the PowerMac G4 Silver that I have http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa

Re: Sound drivers detected on Mac Mini and G5, but not Powermac G4

2009-08-07 Thread Ben Finney
(No need to send copies of list messages to me; the default assumption on Debian mailing lists is copies are not to be sent unless requested.) Risto Suominen writes: > I'm quite sure that snd-aoa does not support Tumbler or older > hardware, probably never will. Perhaps Tumbler and Snapper could

Re: Sound drivers detected on Mac Mini and G5, but not Powermac G4

2009-08-07 Thread Risto Suominen
Hi Ben, 2009/8/7, Ben Finney : > > I'm trying to get this working with the default Debian kernel precisely > so that I don't have to keep rolling kernels for it. So I'm still > looking for a solution that helps the kernel use (what I assume to be) > the correct module, ‘snd-aoa’, to drive the soun

Re: Sound drivers detected on Mac Mini and G5, but not Powermac G4

2009-08-06 Thread Ben Finney
Rogério Brito writes: > Just for debugging purposes, you can remove the snd-aoa module and > friends and load snd-powermac. = $ lsmod | grep snd snd_aoa_i2sbus 22820 0 snd_pcm_oss45248 0 snd_mixer_oss 19360 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm79748 2 snd_aoa

Re: Sound drivers detected on Mac Mini and G5, but not Powermac G4

2009-08-06 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there. On Aug 07 2009, Ben Finney wrote: > AIUI, the ‘snd-powermac’ module is deprecated [0]. I don't know how to > check what you're asking, but at a guess: Just for debugging purposes, you can remove the snd-aoa module and friends and load snd-powermac. Actually, since I roll my own kernels

Re: Sound drivers detected on Mac Mini and G5, but not Powermac G4

2009-08-06 Thread Ben Finney
Charles Plessy writes: > have you checked if the module ’snd-powermac’ is not blacklisted? AIUI, the ‘snd-powermac’ module is deprecated [0]. I don't know how to check what you're asking, but at a guess: = $ grep powermac /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base-blacklist.conf $ = Regardless, audio

Re: Sound drivers detected on Mac Mini and G5, but not Powermac G4

2009-08-06 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 11:13:50PM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : > > I have a Powermac G4 installed with Debian Squeeze. Its audio devices > are not detected on boot by the default kernel, and ALSA reports no > sound cards: Hi Ben, have you checked if the module ’snd-powermac’ is not blacklisted?

Sound drivers detected on Mac Mini and G5, but not Powermac G4

2009-08-06 Thread Ben Finney
Howdy all, I have a Powermac G4 installed with Debian Squeeze. Its audio devices are not detected on boot by the default kernel, and ALSA reports no sound cards: = $ uname -a Linux geranium 2.6.26-2-powerpc #1 Sun Jul 26 21:16:45 UTC 2009 ppc GNU/Linux $ /usr/sbin/alsactl --version alsactl ve

Fwd: Re: Failed Installation, Raid1 on MAC G4 PPC

2007-07-21 Thread Felix Rublack
Hi Manuel, On Sat, July 21, 2007 03:53, Manuel Mendez wrote: > On 7/20/07, Manuel Mendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So I started by erasing the old stuff on each disk. Then each disk has 2 >> partitions, one that just says APPLE which is a few KBs. I formatted the >> other partion of each disk

Re: Failed Installation, Raid1 on MAC G4 PPC

2007-07-20 Thread Manuel Mendez
Oh I forgot to mention that the sata controller is not part of the mother it is an add on I bought. On 7/20/07, Manuel Mendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi and thanks for the time I have an old Mac G4 that was in the garage and decided to use it as a web server. I have 2 250 GBs SATA discs and

Failed Installation, Raid1 on MAC G4 PPC

2007-07-20 Thread Manuel Mendez
Hi and thanks for the time I have an old Mac G4 that was in the garage and decided to use it as a web server. I have 2 250 GBs SATA discs and wanted to setup a RAID1. So I started by erasing the old stuff on each disk. Then each disk has 2 partitions, one that just says APPLE which is a few KBs.

Re: Sound not working on Mac PowerBook G4

2007-05-20 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 08:43:44PM +0200, Matthias Brennwald wrote: > Dear all > > sound output is not working on my PowerBook G4 with Debian Etch. During boot > I can see a message flashing by, saying something along the lines > that snd_powermac encountered an error -12. Any hints or ideas

[OT] Re: Sound not working on Mac PowerBook G4

2007-05-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 20:43:44 +0200, Matthias Brennwald wrote: > Dear all > > sound output is not working on my PowerBook G4 with Debian Etch. During > boot I can see a message flashing by, saying something along the lines that > snd_powermac encountered an error -12. Any hints or ideas? Hi a

Re: Sound not working on Mac PowerBook G4

2007-05-20 Thread Andreas Schreiner
On 20.05.2007, at 20:43, Matthias Brennwald wrote: Dear all sound output is not working on my PowerBook G4 with Debian Etch. During boot I can see a message flashing by, saying something along the lines that snd_powermac encountered an error -12. Any hints or ideas? I get the same erro

Sound not working on Mac PowerBook G4

2007-05-20 Thread Matthias Brennwald
Dear all sound output is not working on my PowerBook G4 with Debian Etch. During boot I can see a message flashing by, saying something along the lines that snd_powermac encountered an error -12. Any hints or ideas? Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: Linux on Mac PPC vs AMD64

2006-05-26 Thread Richard
.. but it looks like 32bit for now. And now there Windows on Mac, in the very near future, Mac OS will be on Standard PC. and besides, Apple, is more iPods, or some kinda Pod, just watch the keynote address, its all Eye Candy, every since MacWeek (Magazine) died, things change. It does not make s

Re: Linux on Mac PPC vs AMD64

2006-05-26 Thread Jason Self
Apple supports hardware for the duration of your warranty (or the warranty + the AppleCare duration if you've purchased it.) They'll continue to do that even during the Intel transition and after. With AppleCare you've got a guaranteed 3 years of hardware support. After that time, the computer is

Re: Linux on Mac PPC vs AMD64

2006-05-25 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Thu, 25 May 2006 17:30:07 +0200, Richard wrote: > I was just thinking, if I purchase the Mac, may have a problem of > supported hardware for ppc ??? I would go for the AMD64 machine, given its compatibility with IA-32 (that comes in handy) and the low cost. Please note I have no clue whatsoev

Linux on Mac PPC vs AMD64

2006-05-25 Thread Richard
this may be a slight off subject, however, I have a choice to purchase a dual g5 with 4gb of Ram, or build a dual core AMD 64 with 8GB or Ram... the real question here, is longevities. Since Mac is dumping ppc is moving intel, and AMD 64 is moving up the ranks... I was just thinking, if I purchas

Re: Install Problems on Mac Mini

2005-11-11 Thread Leonardo Marques
Hey man... check the integrity of the ISO with md5sum, i already have installation problems with data lost in the download process. []s On 11/11/05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Sven, > > > > I've used a cd which I've burned with the 20.10.2005 version. > > > > Yesterday I've

Re: Install Problems on Mac Mini

2005-11-11 Thread Sven Luther
> Hello Sven, > > I've used a cd which I've burned with the 20.10.2005 version. > > Yesterday I've downloaded the iso-1 of the 7.11.2005 version. This one > did the job flawless. > > The source of both images is > http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/cd-images/debian-weekly/powerpc/. ok, that confirms t

Re: Install Problems on Mac Mini

2005-11-11 Thread Fritz Wettstein
Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 10:06:24PM +0100, Fritz Wettstein wrote: Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 08:39:21PM +0100, Fritz Wettstein wrote: Hello, I try to install Debian/PowerPC_etch and always get "Couldn't find thes debs" after choosing Base

Re: Install Problems on Mac Mini

2005-11-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 10:06:24PM +0100, Fritz Wettstein wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > >On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 08:39:21PM +0100, Fritz Wettstein wrote: > > > > > >>Hello, > >> > >>I try to install Debian/PowerPC_etch and always get "Couldn't find thes > >>debs" after choosing Base Install! W

Re: Install Problems on Mac Mini

2005-11-09 Thread Fritz Wettstein
Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 08:39:21PM +0100, Fritz Wettstein wrote: Hello, I try to install Debian/PowerPC_etch and always get "Couldn't find thes debs" after choosing Base Install! What's goin' on here? I did an etch install today, using the graphical installer mini

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