Re: ppc-64 (powermac g5) question

2021-08-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Stan! On 8/20/21 11:03 PM, Stan Johnson wrote: > I guess I thought it was powerpc-specific since 32-bit powerpc systems > don't seem to have the same issue with Debian SID packages requiring > systemd. There should be no differences between powerpc and ppc64 in this regard. You may have in

Re: ppc-64 (powermac g5) question

2021-08-20 Thread Stan Johnson
Hi Adrian, I guess I thought it was powerpc-specific since 32-bit powerpc systems don't seem to have the same issue with Debian SID packages requiring systemd. But thanks for your reply; I'll send a message to the debian-user list. -Stan On 8/20/21 2:55 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > He

Re: ppc-64 (powermac g5) question

2021-08-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Stan! On 8/20/21 10:51 PM, Stan Johnson wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian SID on a Power Mac G5 system using the Apr > 2021 CD. > > After installing a basic text-only system, I replaced systemd with > sysvinit-core. However, most things that I try to install seem to > require systemd.

Re: PPC-specific netatalk problems

2010-12-02 Thread Clive Menzies
On 02/12/10 15:36, Gregory Seidman wrote: On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 02:46:14PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: On 02/12/10 13:04, Gregory Seidman wrote: [...] Has anyone else had any luck with netatalk (supporting OpenSSL) on PPC? --Greg Samba works well to do this: http://cl

Re: PPC-specific netatalk problems

2010-12-02 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 02:46:14PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > On 02/12/10 13:04, Gregory Seidman wrote: [...] >> Has anyone else had any luck with netatalk (supporting OpenSSL) on PPC? >> >> --Greg > > Samba works well to do this: > http://clivemenzies.co.uk/help/index.php?option=com_content&tas

Re: PPC-specific netatalk problems

2010-12-02 Thread Clive Menzies
On 02/12/10 13:04, Gregory Seidman wrote: I'm running Debian stable (mostly) on my home server on an x86 box, and a nearly identical setup on my parents' home server (which I administer) on a Mac G4 tower. I recently built a netatalk package with OpenSSL (there are licensing issues, which is why

Re: PPC-specific netatalk problems

2010-12-02 Thread Thomas Carlson
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

Re: ppc installation issues...

2007-11-28 Thread P Kapat
Hi, On 11/26/07, Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 03:33:32PM -0500, P Kapat wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Here are some of the issues that I faced while installing and > > upgrading debian on my iBook G4: (if I am writing to the wrong list, > > please let me know) > > gno

Re: ppc installation issues...

2007-11-26 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 03:33:32PM -0500, P Kapat wrote: > Hi, > > Here are some of the issues that I faced while installing and > upgrading debian on my iBook G4: (if I am writing to the wrong list, > please let me know) gnome and locale issues are not powerpc-specific, so the expertise on those

Re: ppc and flash?

2006-11-04 Thread Matteo Bigoi - Bigo!
* Sat 04 Nov (03:32), Lutz Willek scrive: > That really isn't possible? No Way? Try to look gnash apt-cache show gnash > > > Lutz > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ceers Bigo! -

Re: ppc: bogomips at 73 when CPU is at 1GHz

2006-05-16 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, > > I've noticed the very log value on bogomips on self-compiled 2.6.16.16 > > on iBook G4. > > .../... > > Normal. We don't use CPU bogo loops for short timings, we use the CPU > timebase instead, thus you now get bogomips derived from the timebae > frequency of the machine. Thanks. I wa

Re: ppc: bogomips at 73 when CPU is at 1GHz

2006-05-16 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 06:18:19AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Hi, > > I've noticed the very log value on bogomips on self-compiled 2.6.16.16 > on iBook G4. > > [06:12:59]ibookg4:~> cat /proc/cpuinfo > processor : 0 > cpu : 7447A, altivec supported > clock : 1066.66

Re: ppc: bogomips at 73 when CPU is at 1GHz

2006-05-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 06:18:19AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Hi, > > I've noticed the very log value on bogomips on self-compiled 2.6.16.16 > on iBook G4. > > [06:12:59]ibookg4:~> cat /proc/cpuinfo > processor : 0 > cpu : 7447A, altivec supported > clock : 1066.66

Re: ppc: bogomips at 73 when CPU is at 1GHz

2006-05-16 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 06:18:19AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Hi, > > I've noticed the very log value on bogomips on self-compiled 2.6.16.16 > on iBook G4. > > [06:12:59]ibookg4:~> cat /proc/cpuinfo > processor : 0 > cpu : 7447A, altivec supported > clock : 1066.66

Re: ppc: bogomips at 73 when CPU is at 1GHz

2006-05-16 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 06:18 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Hi, > > I've noticed the very log value on bogomips on self-compiled 2.6.16.16 > on iBook G4. .../... Normal. We don't use CPU bogo loops for short timings, we use the CPU timebase instead, thus you now get bogomips derived from the tim

Re: ppc mplayer debian packages archive key

2006-03-08 Thread Bin Zhang
On 3/8/06, Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 09:58:48AM +0100, Bin Zhang wrote: > > On 3/8/06, Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 09:27:06AM +0100, Bin Zhang wrote: > > > > There is a patch wmv3-support-via-vc1.diff.gz in > > >

Re: ppc mplayer debian packages archive key

2006-03-08 Thread Guido Guenther
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 09:58:48AM +0100, Bin Zhang wrote: > On 3/8/06, Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 09:27:06AM +0100, Bin Zhang wrote: > > > There is a patch wmv3-support-via-vc1.diff.gz in > > > http://blog.linux.org.tw/~jserv/archives/001545.html for addi

Re: ppc mplayer debian packages archive key

2006-03-08 Thread Bin Zhang
On 3/8/06, Guido Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 09:27:06AM +0100, Bin Zhang wrote: > > There is a patch wmv3-support-via-vc1.diff.gz in > > http://blog.linux.org.tw/~jserv/archives/001545.html for adding wmv3 > > support. > > I have just tested it (rebuild packages fr

Re: ppc mplayer debian packages archive key

2006-03-08 Thread Guido Guenther
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 09:27:06AM +0100, Bin Zhang wrote: > There is a patch wmv3-support-via-vc1.diff.gz in > http://blog.linux.org.tw/~jserv/archives/001545.html for adding wmv3 > support. > I have just tested it (rebuild packages from mplayer-g4 source) and it works. > But I don't understand we

Re: ppc mplayer debian packages archive key

2006-03-07 Thread Bin Zhang
Hi, There is a patch wmv3-support-via-vc1.diff.gz in http://blog.linux.org.tw/~jserv/archives/001545.html for adding wmv3 support. I have just tested it (rebuild packages from mplayer-g4 source) and it works. But I don't understand well the license in this patch. Can somebody tell me if I can use

Re: PPC kernel source tree

2005-12-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 05:52:37PM +0800, KokHow Teh wrote: > My PQ2FADS-ZU is having MPC8280 onboard. > > Which 2.6.10 source tree do you use to run on your MPC8248 board? I have The one from the embedded planet BSP for my EP8248 board. > downloaded 2.6.14.4 from kernel.org and I don't find *ex

Re: PPC Bleeding Edge OOo Builds

2005-06-16 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 14:34 -0500, dr allan wrote: > I was wondering if anyone was working on something similar to what is > going on at http://people.debian.org/~halls/openoffice/ That would be > x86 bleeding edge builds of OOo for Debian 3.1. I am looking for > someone doing the like, just for P

Re: PPC Bleeding Edge OOo Builds

2005-06-16 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, dr allan wrote: > **Note: I have made a similar request in debian-openoff, so if this > crosses your eyes twice, please excuse me** ARGL. WTF are you then not CCing it.in *one* mail but writing *two*? Anyway, I already answered on -openoffice. Let's do eventual discussion there, Reply-To: se

Re: PPC G5 SMU driver

2005-05-18 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 20:36 +0200, Baobab wrote: > Hi all, > > Sorry to burst in mid-discussion. > I've just got hold of a G5 1.8Ghz and like others I'm frustrated with > the linux fan support. > Is the SMU unit not carated for in the SMBIOS driver? I was having a > look at the Darwin code and i

Bingo! :) [was: Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18[ .... ]? ]

2005-01-21 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:25:32PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Wolfgang" == Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Wolfgang> The details: The hard disk broke on a PowerBook G4 > Wolfgang> (TitaniumIV). The repair service already installed a new > Wolfgang> disk to th

Bingo! :) [was: Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18[ .... ]? ]

2005-01-21 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 12:25:32PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Wolfgang" == Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Wolfgang> The details: The hard disk broke on a PowerBook G4 > Wolfgang> (TitaniumIV). The repair service already installed a new > Wolfgang> disk to th

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-21 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 07:25:05AM -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > > "Gabriel" == Gabriel Paubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Gabriel> Not surprising, since *power4* means that it is a 64 bit > Gabriel> kernel, i.e., for G5 aka PPC970. > > The Debian power4 kernels in sarge still

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-21 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Gabriel" == Gabriel Paubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gabriel> Not surprising, since *power4* means that it is a 64 bit Gabriel> kernel, i.e., for G5 aka PPC970. The Debian power4 kernels in sarge still run in 32 bit mode AFAIK. Cheers! Shyamal

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-21 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 07:25:05AM -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > > "Gabriel" == Gabriel Paubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Gabriel> Not surprising, since *power4* means that it is a 64 bit > Gabriel> kernel, i.e., for G5 aka PPC970. > > The Debian power4 kernels in sarge still

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-21 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Gabriel" == Gabriel Paubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gabriel> Not surprising, since *power4* means that it is a 64 bit Gabriel> kernel, i.e., for G5 aka PPC970. The Debian power4 kernels in sarge still run in 32 bit mode AFAIK. Cheers! Shyamal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-21 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 08:27:23PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 07:11:16PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > [ ... ] > > > > But I just installed a new kernel: > > kernel-image-2.4.27-power4-pmac (correct for Titanium IV ? ... ) > > > > When tryin

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-21 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 08:27:23PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 07:11:16PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > [ ... ] > > > > But I just installed a new kernel: > > kernel-image-2.4.27-power4-pmac (correct for Titanium IV ? ... ) > > > > When tryin

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-20 Thread ToPu
On 20-Jan-2005 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Done. I uninstalled quik, installed another kernel: > kernel-iamge-2.4.27-powerpc-pmac. And the latter booted fine. the > > Whatever: At least I have now a hopefully firewire enabled Linux > kernel here ... You should be able to load the modules ohci1

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-20 Thread ToPu
On 20-Jan-2005 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Done. I uninstalled quik, installed another kernel: > kernel-iamge-2.4.27-powerpc-pmac. And the latter booted fine. the > > Whatever: At least I have now a hopefully firewire enabled Linux > kernel here ... You should be able to load the modules ohci1

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-20 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Wolfgang" == Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Wolfgang> The details: The hard disk broke on a PowerBook G4 Wolfgang> (TitaniumIV). The repair service already installed a new Wolfgang> disk to this machine. I need access to the old disk: The Wolfgang> repair servic

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-20 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 08:27:23PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > Done. I uninstalled quik, installed another kernel: > kernel-iamge-2.4.27-powerpc-pmac. And the latter booted fine. the ^ Typo ... :) .. should read: kernel-image-2.4.27-powerpc-pmac. Sorry Wolfgang > previous

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-20 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 07:11:16PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: [ ... ] > > But I just installed a new kernel: > kernel-image-2.4.27-power4-pmac (correct for Titanium IV ? ... ) > > When trying to boot 2.4.27 I get this (I think that's still the Open > Firmware stage where t

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-20 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Wolfgang" == Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Wolfgang> The details: The hard disk broke on a PowerBook G4 Wolfgang> (TitaniumIV). The repair service already installed a new Wolfgang> disk to this machine. I need access to the old disk: The Wolfgang> repair servic

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-20 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi. Thanks a lot to all those responding so far ... On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:26:05AM -0600, vinai wrote: > Wolfgang, > > In the interests of time, I would recommend your trying the ext2 VFS > extension for Mac OS X, which can be found at: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/ > >

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-20 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 08:27:23PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > Done. I uninstalled quik, installed another kernel: > kernel-iamge-2.4.27-powerpc-pmac. And the latter booted fine. the ^ Typo ... :) .. should read: kernel-image-2.4.27-powerpc-pmac. Sorry Wolfgang > previous

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-20 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 07:11:16PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: [ ... ] > > But I just installed a new kernel: > kernel-image-2.4.27-power4-pmac (correct for Titanium IV ? ... ) > > When trying to boot 2.4.27 I get this (I think that's still the Open > Firmware stage where t

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-20 Thread Eddy Petrisor
If (the proposed solution by vinai does not work or) you insist on using linux to get your data you could download the gnoppix (ubuntu) beta live image and start from there. is possible that you will have the harddisk's icon on the desktop, so you won't have to worry about /dev/whatever :) I used

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-20 Thread vinai
Wolfgang, In the interests of time, I would recommend your trying the ext2 VFS extension for Mac OS X, which can be found at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/ I've been using a powerbook drive in a firewire case on my Pismo PB for the better part of the last 2 years. This software i

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-20 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi. Thanks a lot to all those responding so far ... On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:26:05AM -0600, vinai wrote: > Wolfgang, > > In the interests of time, I would recommend your trying the ext2 VFS > extension for Mac OS X, which can be found at: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/ > >

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-20 Thread Eddy Petrisor
If (the proposed solution by vinai does not work or) you insist on using linux to get your data you could download the gnoppix (ubuntu) beta live image and start from there. is possible that you will have the harddisk's icon on the desktop, so you won't have to worry about /dev/whatever :) I used

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

2005-01-20 Thread vinai
Wolfgang, In the interests of time, I would recommend your trying the ext2 VFS extension for Mac OS X, which can be found at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/ I've been using a powerbook drive in a firewire case on my Pismo PB for the better part of the last 2 years. This software i

Re: ppc iBook G4 cover and power control

2004-12-02 Thread Jesus Climent
[ posting to you too, since i dont know if you are subsccribed ] On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 05:57:56AM -0500, Christopher Molnar wrote: > > I use my iBoook G4 on Debian every day, both in and out of the office. I am > running into a problem that is driving me nuts and I need to solve. > > When I cl

Re: ppc iBook G4 cover and power control

2004-12-02 Thread Pim Snel
Op donderdag 02 december 2004 12:10, schreef Chris Howells: > > They are designed to do this to dissipate the heat. If you need the machine > to run with the lid closed, you need a PowerBook. I have a new PowerBook which behaves the same. Is there a way to deactivate this behaviour on Linux? gre

Re: ppc iBook G4 cover and power control

2004-12-02 Thread Timo Reimerdes
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 06:17 -0500, Christopher Molnar wrote: > On Thursday 02 December 2004 06:02 am, Colin Leroy wrote: > > > > > > Probably some sort of hardware protection in case the machine doesn't go to > > sleep. Nothing seems to disable that, apart from Ben's sleep patch. > > Sorry - I h

Re: ppc iBook G4 cover and power control

2004-12-02 Thread Christopher Molnar
On Thursday 02 December 2004 06:02 am, Colin Leroy wrote: > > Probably some sort of hardware protection in case the machine doesn't go to > sleep. Nothing seems to disable that, apart from Ben's sleep patch. Sorry - I haven't been following the lists -- Ben's sleep patch? What and where can I g

Re: ppc iBook G4 cover and power control

2004-12-02 Thread Chris Howells
On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:57, Christopher Molnar wrote: > I use my iBoook G4 on Debian every day, both in and out of the office. I am > running into a problem that is driving me nuts and I need to solve. > > When I close the cover while on battery about 3-4 minutes later the machine > turns i

Re: ppc iBook G4 cover and power control

2004-12-02 Thread Colin Leroy
On 02 Dec 2004 at 05h12, Christopher Molnar wrote: Hi, > I use my iBoook G4 on Debian every day, both in and out of the office. I am > running into a problem that is driving me nuts and I need to solve. > > When I close the cover while on battery about 3-4 minutes later the machine > turns itse

Re: PPC subarches

2004-08-08 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
'ello, On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 11:54, Carlos Perello Marin wrote: > hda1 is where is stored the partition map, if you delete/lose it, your > harddisk will become an empty disk to any operating system. > The hda2 partition is only needed with nonApple Operating systems. You > can boot the macosx i

Re: PPC subarches

2004-08-08 Thread Carlos Perello Marin
On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 11:02 +0100, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: > 'ello, > Hi > Thanks to all who've replied -- OF sounds really very cool! I just read > something in an article hosted by IBM recently and found it a little > odd: > > >From http://tinyurl.com/2aj49 > ``Apple's Open Firmware (an e

Re: PPC subarches

2004-08-08 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
'ello, Thanks to all who've replied -- OF sounds really very cool! I just read something in an article hosted by IBM recently and found it a little odd: >From http://tinyurl.com/2aj49 ``Apple's Open Firmware (an enhanced version of the BIOS Linux users know from x86 PCs) relies on a small "Apple

Re: PPC subarches

2004-08-07 Thread Derrik Pates
Carlos Perelló Marín wrote: It also supports network (if your machine is able to do it), cdrom and firewire boot and I suppose that USB boot. Actually it does - basically any NewWorld system can boot from any of those, anything later than the blue&white G3 pretty much. My PowerBook Pismo can

Re: PPC subarches

2004-08-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 09:07:05PM +0100, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: > Regarding partitioning and bootloaders like GRUB: If I re-install OSX, > creating a suitable Linux partition and then install Sarge, will its > installation routine be able to set up GRUB to allow me to boot OSX or > Linux? Ye

Re: PPC subarches

2004-08-05 Thread Carlos Perelló Marín
On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 22:13 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Carlos [ISO-8859-1] Perelló Marín wrote: > > > > OF is primarily the equivalent of the bios, and like any bios it knows > > > how to boot (but not how to _select_ an OS to boot). So far, I haven't > > > found any comprehe

Re: PPC subarches

2004-08-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Carlos [ISO-8859-1] Perelló Marín wrote: > > OF is primarily the equivalent of the bios, and like any bios it knows > > how to boot (but not how to _select_ an OS to boot). So far, I haven't > > found any comprehensive list of keyboard shortcuts. > > That's not true :-) > > P

Re: PPC subarches

2004-08-05 Thread Carlos Perelló Marín
On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 21:33 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: > > > > > I'm aware that the PowerBook G4 has ``Open Firmware'' -- is this part of > > the BIOS or some kind of in-ROM bootloader? I have searched on the > > Apple web site and can't find any def

Re: PPC subarches

2004-08-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: > > I'm aware that the PowerBook G4 has ``Open Firmware'' -- is this part of > the BIOS or some kind of in-ROM bootloader? I have searched on the > Apple web site and can't find any definitive answer, nor a list of the > numerous keyboard shortcuts t

Re: PPC subarches

2004-08-05 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
'ello, I have found this thread very interesting but, as I am totally new to PPC in general I haven't really understood much of it :-). I'd be grateful if someone could answer a few questions that have popped into my head. I'm pretty sure I'll need to know the answers to get Debian up-and-runnin

Re: PPC subarches

2004-08-03 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Ross Vumbaca wrote: Hi, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote: To clarify that, the a1bootloader isn't just using routines from GRUB, it is based around the same idea. It's a kind of GRUB for UBoot, currently only useful if you use RDB partition maps, but technically you can stuff it into an MBR as well.

Re: PPC subarches

2004-08-03 Thread Ross Vumbaca
Hi, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote: To clarify that, the a1bootloader isn't just using routines from GRUB, it is based around the same idea. It's a kind of GRUB for UBoot, currently only useful if you use RDB partition maps, but technically you can stuff it into an MBR as well. It isn't very useful

Re: PPC subarches

2004-08-03 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Ross Vumbaca wrote: Hi, Sven Luther wrote: The a1boot loader (which we call "SLB") makes use of GPL code for the ext2/3 reading routines (taken from GRUB), so it will be GPL'd too. Cool. So i could try porting it to the pegasos ? What is the point of that? It's written for UBoot firmware,

Re: PPC subarches

2004-08-03 Thread Ross Vumbaca
Hi, Sven Luther wrote: Well, AOS 4 was supposed to use a hardware dongle to work, so ... Which is unrelated to the boot loader. The a1boot loader (which we call "SLB") makes use of GPL code for the ext2/3 reading routines (taken from GRUB), so it will be GPL'd too. Cool. So i could try po

Re: PPC subarches

2004-08-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 03:21:12PM +1000, Ross Vumbaca wrote: > Hi, > > Sven Luther wrote: > > >I have serious doubts the a1bootloader will be considered open source by > >debian-legal, but i may be wrong. > > How can you say this when you have never seen it in your life? Well, AOS 4 was suppos

Re: PPC subarches

2004-08-03 Thread Ross Vumbaca
Hi, Sven Luther wrote: I have serious doubts the a1bootloader will be considered open source by debian-legal, but i may be wrong. How can you say this when you have never seen it in your life? The a1boot loader (which we call "SLB") makes use of GPL code for the ext2/3 reading routines (tak

Re: PPC subarches

2004-08-02 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: > Err, ... i think they need a new uboot flavour. Definitely. > I don't think the AmigaOne folk need to worry about power4, they > only have a 7450 or something such as G4 processor, there is no way > they can currently use a PPC970 (aka G5) on their Mai northbridge. Oo

Re: PPC subarches

2004-08-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 02:45:34PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Ross Vumbaca writes: > > > >>Is the AmigaONE a subarch, or it's own flavor? > > > > Please remind me, what processor does the thing have and how do > > > you boot it? > > Thanks for the info. To answer the original ques

Re: PPC subarches

2004-08-02 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Ross Vumbaca writes: > >>Is the AmigaONE a subarch, or it's own flavor? > > Please remind me, what processor does the thing have and how do > > you boot it? Thanks for the info. To answer the original question: In the current packaging scheme of the Debian kernels, flavours roughly corresp

Re: PPC subarches

2004-08-02 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:42:18AM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > I'm trying to understand the PPC architecture. > > What are all those subarchitectures (pmac, chrp, chrp-rs6k and prep) > and why are they special? Why do they warrant their own kernel? They don't. They just use a different boot

Re: PPC subarches

2004-08-02 Thread Ross Vumbaca
Hi, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Is the AmigaONE a subarch, or it's own flavor? Please remind me, what processor does the thing have and how do you boot it? IBM 750CXe, or replaceable CPU module with one of the following CPUs: IBM 750FX, MPC7451, MPC7455, will use other CPUs of this family down

Re: PPC subarches

2004-08-02 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Turbo Fredriksson writes: > What are all those subarchitectures (pmac, chrp, chrp-rs6k and prep) > and why are they special? Why do they warrant their own kernel? The pmac subarch has bootloaders which can boot the kernel as an uncompressed ELF file, and also load a separate ramdisk from a

Re: PPC Install CD Location?

2004-06-01 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: > Follow the powerpc 110 MB CD image, with Debian base link (well, it > is 160Mo actually). We should call it "the increasingly inaccurately named 110MB image". Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je djuz tqtaj

Re: PPC Install CD Location?

2004-06-01 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 04:58:58PM +0200, Sebastian Henschel wrote: > hello ed... > > * Ed Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-01 16:52 +0200]: > > I'd like to give Debian a try. Where can I download the CD for > > installing on my iMac? Thanks. > > make sure to have a look at http://www.deb

Re: PPC Install CD Location?

2004-06-01 Thread Sebastian Henschel
hello ed... * Ed Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-01 16:52 +0200]: > I'd like to give Debian a try. Where can I download the CD for > installing on my iMac? Thanks. make sure to have a look at http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/, then you might download from http://www.debian.org/distrib

Re: ppc memory

2004-01-26 Thread Ryan Verner
On 19/12/2003, at 2:04 AM, Ryan Verner wrote: what do you mean with same type (size, manufacturer,pins,...?) sorry that i dont have a clue about hardware. There's a program available on VersionTracker for OS X that lists every mac ever made, it's specs, and replacement part types for everythi

Re: ppc memory

2003-12-22 Thread Colin Charles
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 20:25, Lee Braiden wrote: > > so is it possible to use standard memory, and are there any cautions to > > consider? > > Standard laptop memory, yes. You want a SODIMM, if it's anything like my > g3/500 ibook. Just watch the maximum sizes it'll recognise, etc. Read the >

Re: ppc memory

2003-12-22 Thread Colin Charles
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 14:47, florian klinglmueller wrote: > i want to extend my ibook memory (G3, 900MHz, combo, 128Mb standard). I > was discussing with several shop-clerks in Austria and none of them > could give me definite information if i have to take apple memory or can > take any laptop mem

Re: ppc memory

2003-12-18 Thread Lee Braiden
On Thursday 18 Dec 2003 1:47 pm, florian klinglmueller wrote: > so is it possible to use standard memory, and are there any cautions to > consider? Standard laptop memory, yes. You want a SODIMM, if it's anything like my g3/500 ibook. Just watch the maximum sizes it'll recognise, etc. Read the

Re: ppc memory

2003-12-18 Thread Jesús Roncero Franco
On Thursday 18 December 2003 14:47, florian klinglmueller wrote: > hello list, > > i want to extend my ibook memory (G3, 900MHz, combo, 128Mb standard). I > was discussing with several shop-clerks in Austria and none of them > could give me definite information if i have to take apple memory or can

Re: ppc memory

2003-12-18 Thread Colin Leroy
> i want to extend my ibook memory (G3, 900MHz, combo, 128Mb standard). I > was discussing with several shop-clerks in Austria and none of them > could give me definite information if i have to take apple memory or can > take any laptop memory. no-name chips always worked for me. I usually brough

Re: ppc memory

2003-12-18 Thread Paul van Tilburg
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 02:47:28PM +0100, florian klinglmueller wrote: > i want to extend my ibook memory (G3, 900MHz, combo, 128Mb standard). I > was discussing with several shop-clerks in Austria and none of them > could give me definite information if i have to take apple memory or can > take an

Re: ppc memory

2003-12-18 Thread tom_gall
On Thursday, December 18, 2003, at 08:11 AM, florian klinglmueller wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 what do you mean with same type (size, manufacturer,pins,...?) sorry that i dont have a clue about hardware. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14870 There are a

Re: ppc memory

2003-12-18 Thread Ryan Verner
On 19/12/2003, at 12:41 AM, florian klinglmueller wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 what do you mean with same type (size, manufacturer,pins,...?) sorry that i dont have a clue about hardware. There's a program available on VersionTracker for OS X that lists every mac eve

Re: ppc memory

2003-12-18 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 02:47:28PM +0100, florian klinglmueller wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > hello list, > > i want to extend my ibook memory (G3, 900MHz, combo, 128Mb standard). I > was discussing with several shop-clerks in Austria and none of them > could give m

Re: ppc memory

2003-12-18 Thread tom_gall
Hi Florian, You don't have to use apple memory. As long as you install the *SAME* type of memory you'll be fine. When I upgrade the memory in my pismo this is what I did with great success. Regards, Tom On Thursday, December 18, 2003, at 07:47 AM, florian klinglmueller wrote: ---

Re: ppc memory

2003-12-18 Thread florian klinglmueller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 what do you mean with same type (size, manufacturer,pins,...?) sorry that i dont have a clue about hardware. thx flo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi Florian, | | You don't have to use apple memory. As long as you install the *SAME* | type | of memor

Re: PPC Kernel Newbie

2003-12-08 Thread Nathanael Hasbrouck
On Monday 08 December 2003 19:00, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > I have rolled 1000 kernels on my x86 machines, and have one last PPC > machine to finish. Where do I get the standard kernel sources? Do I use > the same sources from kernel.org? I personally usually use rsync instead of bkbits, you ca

Re: PPC Kernel Newbie

2003-12-08 Thread Sebastian D.B. Krause
Matthew Daubenspeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have rolled 1000 kernels on my x86 machines, and have one last PPC > machine to finish. Where do I get the standard kernel sources? Do I use > the same sources from kernel.org? Yes, they just build normally on ppc as well. Or you use some speciali

Re: X on tibook 15" 1.25Ghz [was: Re: [ppc-new_tibook-15"] install report 2003-11-05]

2003-11-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Arnaud Vandyck a écrit: [original discussion was on debian-boot but it's a bit different] If this is a new aluminium PowerBook, the folks on #debianppc informed me that I had to run 2.6 in order for X to work at all. Using benh's 2.6 tree things seem to be working well. The latest ? I'

Re: X on tibook 15" 1.25Ghz [was: Re: [ppc-new_tibook-15"] install report 2003-11-05]

2003-11-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:25:25PM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 13:01:25 + > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If this is a new aluminium PowerBook, the folks on #debianppc informed > > me that I had to run 2.6 in order for X to work at all. Using benh's 2.6 > > t

X on tibook 15" 1.25Ghz [was: Re: [ppc-new_tibook-15"] install report 2003-11-05]

2003-11-11 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
[original discussion was on debian-boot but it's a bit different] On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 13:01:25 + Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If this is a new aluminium PowerBook, the folks on #debianppc informed > me that I had to run 2.6 in order for X to work at all. Using benh's 2.6 > tree th

xfree on new pb15" [was: Re: [ppc-new_tibook-15"] install report 2003-11-05]

2003-11-07 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 09:54:43 +0100 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Congratulations ! Thanks, and thanks for your help. > > I'll spend sometimes to tune the system, then I got some java stuff > > to do (for Debian) so I'll unsubscribe at the moment. But feel free > > to contact m

Re: [ppc-new_tibook-15"] install report 2003-11-05

2003-11-07 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
[Cc: debian-powerpc for the record! ;)] On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:56:24 -0500 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Arnaud Vandyck wrote: [...] > > I have a list of kernel. I chose 2.4.22 and it stay top this > > option... it's not possible to install yaboot. d-i wants me to > > install the kernel!

Re: PPC waste compilation

2003-10-29 Thread W. Crowshaw
Nevermind. I had to re-write the crappy makefile. Now it compiles perfectly on the PPC. If anyone wants the Makefile to start your own private p2p network on your ppc, let me know. -- wcrowshaw

Re: PPC waste compilation

2003-10-27 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 18:32, W. Crowshaw wrote: > Has anyone tried building the encrypten waste p2p > network software for the PPC platform? I've got > some strange compilation errors that I can neither > make heads or tails of. There related to rsaref2 > which I have compiled successful. The mi

Re: PPC board for home-made Debian X terminal?

2003-07-07 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Mon, 07 Jul 2003 19:00:12 +0800, debia escreveu: >> My business partner thought of assembling our own with >> http://www.lex.com.tw/cv860a.htm, > > The Eden and C3 are IA32, not PowerPC Perhaps I wasn't clear enough... I would like to assemble PowerPC X terminals with around the

Re: PPC board for home-made Debian X terminal?

2003-07-07 Thread debian
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, [iso-8859-1] Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > I have a small project that may require from 7 to 12 X terminals. > > I thought of buying dedicated devices, but many of them have > fans which I dread, or simply run MS WCE. > > My business partne

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