Re: Debian Installer - boot floppies

2006-03-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 02:01:23AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >I guess we are using udev, but with a devfs-like naming scheme on top, right > >? > >I strongly believe that swim3.ko is not hotplug friendly, or that udev has > >some trouble with builtin modules, but i

Re: Debian Installer - boot floppies

2006-03-05 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I think that this is not a position acceptable in debian right now, who aims >to support many less-supported-arches/subarches, who still struggle to get >their main patches into mainline. So i believe it is sane to accept that for I think it's not acceptable for Debian to

Which kernel-source for mac mini?

2006-03-05 Thread Jutta Wrage
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! It is well known I think, that sound does not work with Sarge PPC Kerneln 2.6.8. Now I got the kernel-source for 2.6.15 from backports.org and tired to make a kernel using make-kpkg with no luck at all. The byteorder.h in asm is missed. I

Re: mouseemu 0.15 not working at all? [SOLVED]

2006-03-05 Thread Michael Lampard
hy there, i just wanted to present the solution to my not-working-mouseemu-0.15. in fact i completely misinterpreted its manpage. with ... # mouseemu -right x y ... i thought that i get a right-click EITHER by pressing x+mousebutton OR by pressing y. actually it is way more simple: # mouseemu -

Re: Debian Installer - boot floppies

2006-03-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 11:19:04AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >I think that this is not a position acceptable in debian right now, who aims > >to support many less-supported-arches/subarches, who still struggle to get > >their main patches into mainline. So i believe

Re: Which kernel-source for mac mini?

2006-03-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 12:38:40PM +0100, Jutta Wrage wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi! > > It is well known I think, that sound does not work with Sarge PPC > Kerneln 2.6.8. > > Now I got the kernel-source for 2.6.15 from backports.org and tired It is called

Re: Debian Installer - boot floppies

2006-03-05 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > By saying that these obsolete drivers should be supported anyway you are > > basically requesting other people to spend their time maintaining > > workarounds in their own packages. > Well, we have done this for sarge in a much more extensive w

Re: Debian Installer - boot floppies

2006-03-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 04:25:01PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Mar 05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > By saying that these obsolete drivers should be supported anyway you are > > > basically requesting other people to spend their time maintaining > > > workarounds in their own

ppc mplayer debian packages archive key

2006-03-05 Thread Guido Guenther
Hi, I've just updated the gpg key used to sign the mplayer ppc packages's release file at: deb http://honk.sigxcpu.org/linux-ppc/debian/ mplayer/ The new key (key-id 0x3F041553506A0744) is available from: https://honk.sigxcpu.org/misc/sigxcpu-archive-key.gpg Please update your keyring via apt-k

Re: Which kernel-source for mac mini?

2006-03-05 Thread Jutta Wrage
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 05.03.2006 um 16:19 schrieb Sven Luther: 2.6.15 still builds with arch=ppc for 32bit kernels. You need to include both include/asm (which is a symlink to include/asm-ppc) and arch/ppc/ include (which is a symlink to includ/asm-powerpc). I w

mozilla-mplayer does not show video

2006-03-05 Thread Tamas K Papp
Hi, mozilla-mplayer (latest testing, 3.21-1) does not show video. If I right-click and make it full screen, video appears fine, and when I turn full screen off again, video does appear inside the page as it should have in the first place. Is there a way to resolve this? ii mozilla-firefo 1.0.7

Re: Which kernel-source for mac mini?

2006-03-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 06:21:36PM +0100, Jutta Wrage wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Am 05.03.2006 um 16:19 schrieb Sven Luther: > > >2.6.15 still builds with arch=ppc for 32bit kernels. You need to > >include both > >include/asm (which is a symlink to include/a

Re: Which kernel-source for mac mini?

2006-03-05 Thread Jutta Wrage
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 05.03.2006 um 18:57 schrieb Sven Luther: You are trying to build the kernel package ? not just some modules ? What else do you suspect could be meant with "new kernel with make- kpkg"? ;-) Maybe the backports.org, they being unofficial pac

CPU-freq and bogomips

2006-03-05 Thread Ben Mueller
Hi, one year ago, there was a thread on this list (see e.g. http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/03/msg00826.html), that the frequency of the 7447A CPU should equal approximately the value of bogomips. I wonder, if this should also be the case for other G4 processors. Because my /proc/

Re: Debian Installer - boot floppies

2006-03-05 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, i remember some issues with the firewire module in the sarge timeframe, > and how you actively discouraged a workaround for this. It's hard to be specific since I do not remember the details either, but IIRC I suggested a solution to be im

mouseemu on powerbook5,8

2006-03-05 Thread Mich Lanners
Hi all, You may recall I experienced problems with mouseemu on my Oct. 2005 AlBook. On initial boot, mouseemu eats all CPU and refuses to work. Well, I looked a bit into the problem and found the cause. But let's start with the problem: Problem: On intial boot, reliably, mouseemu eats

Re: Debian Installer - boot floppies

2006-03-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 08:39:28PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Mar 05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, on one hand you say you have no plan to oppose workarounds, but on the > > other hand you clearly oppose such workarounds ? > No, I oppose attempts to require me to maintain the

Re: Debian Installer - boot floppies

2006-03-05 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe it would be best for all involved if we maintained a list of such > cases, and had proper workaround in either udev or a separate package, and > then, actively search to get those cases fixed in the kernel, either by doing > the develop

Re: Which kernel-source for mac mini?

2006-03-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 07:45:12PM +0100, Jutta Wrage wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Am 05.03.2006 um 18:57 schrieb Sven Luther: > > >You are trying to build the kernel package ? not just some modules ? > > What else do you suspect could be meant with "new kernel

Re: CPU-freq and bogomips

2006-03-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 07:58:09PM +0100, Ben Mueller wrote: > Hi, > > one year ago, there was a thread on this list (see e.g. > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/03/msg00826.html), that the > frequency of the 7447A CPU should equal approximately the value of > bogomips. bogomips are

Re: Which kernel-source for mac mini?

2006-03-05 Thread david
FWIW I used a 2.6.15.3 from http://www.ppckernel.org/ everything works fine on my mac mini david Jutta Wrage wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! It is well known I think, that sound does not work with Sarge PPC Kerneln 2.6.8. Now I got the kernel-source for 2.6.15

Xserve hd device names

2006-03-05 Thread Jan Schukat
Hello. I want to install a debian on an Xserve G5 via firewire (since I don't have a serial console). Just made a testrun and installed a debian on my PowerMac from my iBook via Firewire target disk. And got it working. The biggest problem I encountered was the yaboot configuration, since the d

Re: CPU-freq and bogomips

2006-03-05 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 23:42 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > bogomips are bogus :) processor : 0 cpu : 7447A, altivec supported clock : 749.999000MHz revision: 0.2 (pvr 8003 0102) bogomips: 36.73 timebase: 18432000 machine : PowerBook5,6 mothe

Re: Debian Installer - boot floppies

2006-03-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 11:35:55PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Mar 05, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I believe it would be best for all involved if we maintained a list of such > > cases, and had proper workaround in either udev or a separate package, and > > then, actively sear

Re: CPU-freq and bogomips

2006-03-05 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 the mental interface of Yves-Alexis Perez told: > On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 23:42 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > bogomips are bogus :) > > processor : 0 > cpu : 7447A, altivec supported > clock : 749.999000MHz > revision: 0.2 (pvr 8003 0102) > bo

Re: Xserve hd device names

2006-03-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 12:12:49AM +0100, Jan Schukat wrote: > Hello. > I want to install a debian on an Xserve G5 via firewire (since I don't have a > serial console). Just made a testrun and installed a debian on my PowerMac > from my iBook via Firewire target disk. And got it working. The bigg

Re: CPU-freq and bogomips

2006-03-05 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 00:53 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 the mental interface of > Yves-Alexis Perez told: > > > On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 23:42 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > bogomips are bogus :) > > > > processor : 0 > > cpu : 7447A, altivec supported >

Re: Battery Problems / Re: off topic - Apple service sucks

2006-03-05 Thread Tommy Trussell
On 3/1/06, anthony iles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My Powerbook G3 Pismo/Firewire/Bronze keyboard model > which is dual boot Sarge and OSX does not switch on > anymore or does so only temporarily. > > For some time I have been running it without a battery > as the battery only held a charge for 3

Re: Xserve hd device names

2006-03-05 Thread Jan Schukat
Hmm. I only need the Firewire Disk driver on the iBook in 32bit mode, and that worked yesterday. On the Xserve the Openfirmware will do everthing and it won't need it. But as I said, once the install is completed, I want to be sure I provided the right device name for the root partition for the

Re: Xserve hd device names

2006-03-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 08:09:39AM +0100, Jan Schukat wrote: > Hmm. I only need the Firewire Disk driver on the iBook in 32bit mode, and > that worked yesterday. On the Xserve the Openfirmware will do everthing and > it won't need it. > But as I said, once the install is completed, I want to be s