user mode linux on ppc32

2005-02-04 Thread Luca Bigliardi - shammash
Hi all, some days ago lynuxworks.com guys made an announcement about their port of uml on ppc32; after that Jeff Dike has received this work, you can read his article on usermodelinux.org (there's also a patch for uml on ppc64). As you can see in Jeff's article the code he has received is a 28MB t

Re: [PATCH] Set accel in radeon driver

2005-02-04 Thread Martin Habets
Just wanted to verify if my fix has been included. Looks like it might have fallen between the cracks. If needed I can repost it. Thanks, Martin On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 03:18:45PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 00:00 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005

Re: d-i on a second hard drive in a G5

2005-02-04 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 02:39:48PM -0800, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:13:17AM -0500, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > > 4. /target/etc/yaboot.config (as installed by the d-i): > > > > boot=/dev/sdb2 > > device=/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > This last line seems odd. My G5 has

bounty for fixing ALSA's powermac driver

2005-02-04 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
According to the following BTS entry, the ALSA maintainer assigned to the snd-powermac driver doesn't even have any Mac to play with: https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=306 This prooves that all attempts at fixing the driver have been shooting in the dark. No f* wonder th

Re: bounty for fixing ALSA's powermac driver

2005-02-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
ben mentioned some thoughts he had on improving the driver, many of which (or mainly from what i read) involved dividing up the driver into chipset groups... something like that as obviously not every mac has the same sound hardware but for some wierd reason we just have an all in one driver (which

Re: bounty for fixing ALSA's powermac driver

2005-02-04 Thread Wouter van Heyst
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 02:21:33PM +0200, Martin-Ãric Racine wrote: > According to the following BTS entry, the ALSA maintainer assigned to the > snd-powermac driver doesn't even have any Mac to play with: > > https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=306 > > This prooves that all at

Auctex on iBook fails (same version works on x86)

2005-02-04 Thread James Tappin
I've got the auctex package (advanced tex/latex mode for emacs) on several boxes and it works just fine on the x86 boxes but on my iBook it fails with the error: File mode specification error: (error "Lisp nesting exceeds max-lisp-eval-depth") There are also numerous such errors in the installati

Re: bounty for fixing ALSA's powermac driver

2005-02-04 Thread Jesus Climent
Hi! On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 02:21:33PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > Wouldn't it be a good idea to place a bounty to encourage Ubuntu PPC > developers to get around fixing snd-powermac for all Mac PPC chips? Sorry but I failed to parse your message. Are the Ubuntu people setting a bounty

Re: d-i on a second hard drive in a G5

2005-02-04 Thread Pedro Sanchez
On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 11:10 +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 02:39:48PM -0800, Brad Boyer wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:13:17AM -0500, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > > > 4. /target/etc/yaboot.config (as installed by the d-i): > > > > > > boot=/dev/sdb2 > > > device=/[EMAIL

Re: bounty for fixing ALSA's powermac driver

2005-02-04 Thread wrobell
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 12:49:31AM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: > ben mentioned some thoughts he had on improving the > driver, many of which (or mainly from what i read) > involved dividing up the driver into > chipset groups... something like that > as obviously not every mac has the same sound ha

Re: Auctex on iBook fails (same version works on x86)

2005-02-04 Thread Florian Klinglmueller
hi, on my ibook g3 it seems to work without problem (though there might be problems that i havent encountered yet), versions are the same: ii auctex 11.54-2 An integrated environment for... ii emacs21 21.3+1-8The GNU Emacs editor cheers float On Fri, Feb 04,

Re: Auctex on iBook fails (same version works on x86)

2005-02-04 Thread David Kastrup
[Copy by mail since I don't know whether posting to the Usenet mirror will propagate back to the list] James Tappin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've got the auctex package (advanced tex/latex mode for emacs) on > several boxes and it works just fine on the x86 boxes but on my iBook it > fails

Re: bounty for fixing ALSA's powermac driver

2005-02-04 Thread Martin Habets
Rather than complainting, maybe someone can offer access to their Mac. Either physical or via ssh. Usually the real guru's don't need much time to put things right. (having said that, the cleanup Ben suggested would be a big effort) I use the powermac driver on 2.6.8 with ALSA 1.0.4 and it works f

Re: bounty for fixing ALSA's powermac driver

2005-02-04 Thread Mauro
They should get macs period. I know of one ppc dev that doesn't even have a mac. Apple has to be the largest subset of ppc, certainly commercially. That is reason enough to have their dev work and test things out on macs. I can't even started to get them testing for the DRI bug I have with

Re: bounty for fixing ALSA's powermac driver

2005-02-04 Thread Colin Leroy
On 04 Feb 2005 at 16h02, Martin Habets wrote: Hi, > Rather than complainting, maybe someone can offer access to their > Mac. Either physical or via ssh. Usually the real guru's don't need > much time to put things right. (having said that, the cleanup Ben > suggested would be a big effort) Ben

Re: bounty for fixing ALSA's powermac driver

2005-02-04 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Jesus Climent wrote: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 02:21:33PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > > > Wouldn't it be a good idea to place a bounty to encourage Ubuntu PPC > > developers to get around fixing snd-powermac for all Mac PPC chips? > > Sorry but I failed to parse your

Re: Auctex on iBook fails (same version works on x86)

2005-02-04 Thread James Tappin
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 16:13:47 +0100 David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: DK> DK> [Copy by mail since I don't know whether posting to the Usenet DK> mirror will propagate back to the list] DK> DK> James Tappin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DK> DK> > I've got the auctex package (advanced tex/lat

Re: d-i on a second hard drive in a G5

2005-02-04 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 09:42:45AM -0500, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 11:10 +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 02:39:48PM -0800, Brad Boyer wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:13:17AM -0500, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > > > > 4. /target/etc/yaboot.config (as i

Re: bounty for fixing ALSA's powermac driver

2005-02-04 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 03:22:40PM +0100, Jesus Climent wrote: > Hi! > > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 02:21:33PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > > > Wouldn't it be a good idea to place a bounty to encourage Ubuntu PPC > > developers to get around fixing snd-powermac for all Mac PPC chips? All Ma

Re: bounty for fixing ALSA's powermac driver

2005-02-04 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 03:22:40PM +0100, Jesus Climent wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 02:21:33PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > > > > > Wouldn't it be a good idea to place a bounty to encourage Ubuntu PPC > > > developers to get around fix

Re: d-i on a second hard drive in a G5

2005-02-04 Thread Pedro Sanchez
On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 20:00 +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 09:42:45AM -0500, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 11:10 +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 02:39:48PM -0800, Brad Boyer wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:13:17AM -05

Booting High Speed

2005-02-04 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi All Here: $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : 7455, altivec supported clock : 867MHz revision: 3.2 (pvr 8001 0302) bogomips: 865.18 machine : PowerBook3,5 motherboard : PowerBook3,5 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh detected as : 8

Re: d-i on a second hard drive in a G5

2005-02-04 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 03:28:26PM -0500, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 20:00 +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 09:42:45AM -0500, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > > > On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 11:10 +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 02:39:48PM

Re: d-i fails on new PowerMac G5

2005-02-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Hey, you're the expert :-) I'll take your word over mine any day (I've > used powerpc linux exactly 6 weeks). > > I was under the impression that if the boot strap partition went after > the Mac OS X partition then Mac OS X "de-blessed" all but itself. Am I > wrong there? Nope, the only differ

Re: bounty for fixing ALSA's powermac driver

2005-02-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
Wouldn't it be a good idea to place a bounty to encourage Ubuntu PPC developers to get around fixing snd-powermac for all Mac PPC chips? Sorry but I failed to parse your message. Are the Ubuntu people setting a bounty? Or you want us to set a bounty so that Ubuntu people can fix the problem and g

Re: bounty for fixing ALSA's powermac driver

2005-02-04 Thread Mauro
I remember I always got a pop thru my speakers every once in a while. The volume settings where seemed to be somewhat "unlevel" too as using kde's mixer always jumped my volume to a somewhat loud volume as the volume increased. mauro On Fri, 2005-04-02 at 22:25 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: >

Re: bounty for fixing ALSA's powermac driver

2005-02-04 Thread Mauro
There is no such thing as suse ppc and there hasn't been for a few versions. Things have to get tested after porting because things are not always a simple matter of porting as the start of this thread already suggests. On Sat, 2005-05-02 at 13:08 +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: > >>Wouldn't it b

Re: bounty for fixing ALSA's powermac driver

2005-02-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
im talking about suse supporting alsa Dean Mauro wrote: There is no such thing as suse ppc and there hasn't been for a few versions. Things have to get tested after porting because things are not always a simple matter of porting as the start of this thread already suggests. On Sat, 2005-05-02

Re: bounty for fixing ALSA's powermac driver

2005-02-04 Thread Mauro
I guess my point is that it does matter who fixes alsa for it to be usable for ppc. I agree in part it should not matter, to a point. It should definitely be a ppc distro if not debian/ubuntu. On Sat, 2005-05-02 at 14:25 +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: > im talking about suse supporting alsa > > >

Re: bounty for fixing ALSA's powermac driver

2005-02-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
i see your point, but if someone wants to fix it on intel and it works on ppc they can go for it what other ppc dists are there? deb, ubuntu, crux? Dean Mauro wrote: I guess my point is that it does matter who fixes alsa for it to be usable for ppc. I agree in part it should not matter, to a point

Re: bounty for fixing ALSA's powermac driver

2005-02-04 Thread Mauro
sure, but the original post says that this is not working out. As far as ppc *nixes: There is also mandrake-ppc which is now only a volunteer project, yellow dog, fedora-ppc, source mage, gentoo, rock linux and that's just linux. On the bsd front there is open and net, and they are working on a F