Re: Feedback on patch to PowerPC ports pmac page requested

2005-10-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:33:32AM -0700, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > So perhaps the statement needs to be something like > > "For users of the powerpc flavour a 2.4 kernel is also provided to > support Amiga Power-UP (apus) systems, and as a fall back for users > with external kernel modules that are

Re: Feedback on patch to PowerPC ports pmac page requested

2005-10-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
> "Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sven> On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 07:24:23PM -0700, Shyamal Prasad Sven> wrote: >> the G4) you also have the option of choosing a 2.4 kernel in >> case your hardware is really old. However most hardware built >> after 2001 sho

Re: Feedback on patch to PowerPC ports pmac page requested

2005-10-23 Thread Shyamal Prasad
> "Rogério" == Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rogério> On Oct 22 2005, Shyamal Prasad wrote: >> as +little as 600 to 700M for a really basic system, but you'll Rogério> I question the 600 to 700M figures for a "really basic Rogério> system". I think that these numbe

Re: Feedback on patch to PowerPC ports pmac page requested

2005-10-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 07:24:23PM -0700, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > > Hi all, > > http://www.us.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/pmac is quite out of > date. I use new Mac hardware (G5), and have little experience with > minimal installs of Debian since potato. Comments on the patch below > would be a

Re: Feedback on patch to PowerPC ports pmac page requested

2005-10-22 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello, On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 07:24:23PM -0700, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > http://www.us.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/pmac is quite out of > date. I use new Mac hardware (G5), and have little experience with > minimal installs of Debian since potato. Comments on the patch below > would be appreciate

Re: Feedback on patch to PowerPC ports pmac page requested

2005-10-22 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 22 2005, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > +1G is probably a realistic minimum disk space required for an > +experimental Linux system. You might get by with less, perhaps as > +little as 600 to 700M for a really basic system, but you'll more than > +likely want more than just the basics. I question

Re: FEEDBACK WANTED: What to do about XF86Config-4 BusID?

2001-08-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
Branden Robinson wrote: > 1) add a BusID question to the templates > 2) add the following logic to the .config script: > (this is psuedocode, don't sweat the syntax, please) > > if arch == powerpc: > FOO=$(lspci | grep VGA) > switch (wc -l $FOO) > case 0: prob

Re: FEEDBACK WANTED: What to do about XF86Config-4 BusID?

2001-07-20 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > With your 4.1.0 from two weeks or so back, I didn't have to specify a > > busid at all. Rage LT Pro, not 128. > > Well, I had to for 0pre1v5. Maybe the atimisc driver has more brains that > the r128 driver... Maybe. I've not upgraded lately, maybe atimisc now also gets it wrong. > > It se

Re: FEEDBACK WANTED: What to do about XF86Config-4 BusID?

2001-07-20 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 05:09:22PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > It's not a question of whether it's useful, it's a question of whether it's > > NECESSARY. I haven't heard reports about any other architecture > > *requiring* an explicit BusID in the XF86Config-4 file for the server to > > work

Re: FEEDBACK WANTED: What to do about XF86Config-4 BusID?

2001-07-20 Thread Michael Schmitz
> It's not a question of whether it's useful, it's a question of whether it's > NECESSARY. I haven't heard reports about any other architecture > *requiring* an explicit BusID in the XF86Config-4 file for the server to > work. If that proves to be the case, I'll add them to the list. With your 4

Re: FEEDBACK WANTED: What to do about XF86Config-4 BusID?

2001-07-20 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Branden Robinson writes: > A BusID was mandatory, and my debconf questions don't handle that > yet. Having UseFBDev on or off seemed to be harmless either way. On my Pismo, it's the other way round. Contrary to 4.0.3, the 4.1.0 X server works nicely without a BusID. However, it requires t

Re: FEEDBACK WANTED: What to do about XF86Config-4 BusID?

2001-07-20 Thread Sven
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 05:10:47AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 11:59:44AM +0200, Sven wrote: > > Note, the busid thingy is also usefull on non ppc boxes. > > It's not a question of whether it's useful, it's a question of whether it's > NECESSARY. I haven't heard repor

Re: FEEDBACK WANTED: What to do about XF86Config-4 BusID?

2001-07-20 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 11:59:44AM +0200, Sven wrote: > Note, the busid thingy is also usefull on non ppc boxes. It's not a question of whether it's useful, it's a question of whether it's NECESSARY. I haven't heard reports about any other architecture *requiring* an explicit BusID in the XF86Con

Re: FEEDBACK WANTED: What to do about XF86Config-4 BusID?

2001-07-20 Thread Sven
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 02:22:57AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > I got a head on my G3 tonight and ate some of my own dog food as far as the > X server goes. > > Linux redwald 2.2.18pre21 #1 Mon Nov 20 21:18:03 EST 2000 ppc unknown > xserver-xfree86 4.1.0-0pre1v5 > > It has a Rage 128 RE. A B

Re: feedback

2000-06-18 Thread David Brown
On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 02:45:54PM +0100, Sergio Brandano wrote: > - Kernel 2.2.16 does not want to boot on Lombard I was unable to boot 2.2.16 when I first tried. I re-rsync'd with Paulus' archive and it now boots. Something was definately fixed. Dave Brown

Re: Feedback (2000-03-16)

2000-03-17 Thread Sergio Brandano
Andrew B. Arthur wrote: >>- bogomips: 801.18 (PowerBook Lombard 400Mhz) >> bogomips from the xterm reports: 526 > >I haven't seen that bug before. Seems strange to me since doesn't GNOME >get it the same way? At any rate I don't use GNOME currently, so I >wouldn't really know. The 800b

Re: Feedback (2000-03-16)

2000-03-16 Thread Andrew B. Arthur
Sergio Brandano wrote: > > Cheers, > Sergio > > (hardware: PowerBook Lombard G3-400) > > 1. Result of booting today's rsync tree: > > Machine check in kernel mode. (regs at cb491bf0) > Caused by (from srr1): Unknown values in srr1 > NIP: D081332C XER: 2000 LR: D0813318 REGS: cb491bf0 TRA

Re: feedback on speak-freely for Debian ppc (next release)

2000-02-11 Thread Kevin Puetz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > The package currently distributed is 6.1, although 7.1 > was made available long ago. Version 6.1 does not work > on my laptop (Apple Lombad), so I tried 7.1, compiling > it with the big endian option. After opening a loopback > connection, I got the following error