Re: Sound output on PBs

2007-05-27 Thread Benjamin Cama
Le dimanche 27 mai 2007 à 01:01 +0200, Børge Holen a écrit : > Is it just me or is the audio output on the PB just a poor excuse for gettin > an external usb soundcard. For certain aint handling any low/high frequezies > without scrambling it. > It for sure cant make my 300$ headphones work for

Re: Configuration wifi sur un PowerBook G4

2008-08-15 Thread Benjamin Cama
Sorry for the french answer, I don't know if he speaks english. This is basically a missing firmware problem. Le samedi 16 août 2008 à 00:30 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > Bonsoir, Bonsoir, Tout d'abord, cette liste est anglaise, donc on parle anglais normalement :-) > Je viens d'installer

Re: Tool for detecting partition superblocks needed

2008-10-01 Thread Benjamin Cama
Le mercredi 01 octobre 2008 à 22:29 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer a écrit : > Excerpt from the Debian install syslog, cut: > > kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=76724680, > high=4, low=9615816, secto

Re: Tool for detecting partition superblocks needed

2008-10-02 Thread Benjamin Cama
Le jeudi 02 octobre 2008 à 20:17 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer a écrit : > Could this also be a simple file system damage? Errors like that (i.e. in the middle of a DMA interrupt) are not simple FS damage, I am pretty sure. > I was hoping it was just something like that, because this hopefully > could

Re: RealPlayer audio streams

2009-01-27 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, I don't want to sound too pedantic, bit I'd like to precise some things : Le mardi 27 janvier 2009 à 14:28 +0930, Mike Hore a écrit : > Anyway, kplayer is happily handling real streams, MP3 and WMP with no > problem. Hey, I'm not a purist, I just like to get the job done, any way > that wor

Re: What is pbbuttonsd used for nowadays?

2009-01-31 Thread Benjamin Cama
Le vendredi 30 janvier 2009 à 22:18 +0100, Børge Holen a écrit : > Top posting. Gnome default? When did that happen? Never did a default, > but how does gnome know I got backlit buttons on F9-11? As far as I remember, selecting the unnamed "desktop environnement" in the debian-installer installs

Re: What is pbbuttonsd used for nowadays?

2009-02-01 Thread Benjamin Cama
Le samedi 31 janvier 2009 à 21:38 +0100, Gerfried Fuchs a écrit : > Thanks, I am reading the list I post to, otherwise I wouldn't had > followed up to the thread. ;) No need to extra Cc me. I thought it was the policy on this list ... sorry for the annoyance. > The unnamed "desktop environment

Re: broadcom 4306 rev 3 ndiswrapper

2009-02-27 Thread Benjamin Cama
stephen sefick a écrit : I have read that the b43 driver only allows 11mbs while the ndiswrapper procedure works at 54mbs. My wireless is running slow and I am trying to get it up to speed any help would be appreciated. Should I use ndiswrapper or am I out of luck. First, b43 indeed allows 54M

Re: broadcom 4306 rev 3 ndiswrapper

2009-02-27 Thread Benjamin Cama
stephen sefick a écrit : I have side by side my laptop (ibook G4 Debian GNU/Linux) and desktop (mac mini mac os x 10.5.6). I have found ethtools in debian and the connection speed is only 10Mb/s in the mac network utility the link speed is set at 54Mb/s. So what gives you said that 54Mb/s was

Re: help installing on powerbook6,8 w/ dead cd drive

2009-03-22 Thread Benjamin Cama
Le dimanche 22 mars 2009 à 10:48 -0500, Ross Gohlke a écrit : > I also looked into netbooting, but documentation is inconsistent and I > could not find netbootable binaries. I netbooted my powerbook to install Debian on it, and it went smoothly (I already had an experience by netbooting some OpenW

Re: Xorg does not detect nvidia card

2009-03-23 Thread Benjamin Cama
fight4por...@gmail.com a écrit : I could not get my card to work in lenny until I installed the NVIDIA Proprietary drivers. There's no such thing as a NVidia proprietary driver for powerpc, since you insist on using it. Regards, benjamin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@l

Re: iBook G4 dual head

2009-05-10 Thread Benjamin Cama
Le vendredi 08 mai 2009 à 21:44 -0700, Amit Uttamchandani a écrit : > On Sat, 9 May 2009 12:47:30 +1200 > Jamie Downs wrote: > > I have edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > It now has Virtual 2304 768 as explained below by Jos__ > > > > The command I use to enable dual head is > > xrandr --output LVDS -

Re: xorg.conf powerbook g4 kde 4.2.2

2009-05-10 Thread Benjamin Cama
Le samedi 09 mai 2009 à 20:02 -0700, Amit Uttamchandani a écrit : > On Sun, 10 May 2009 02:00:56 +0200 > drz wrote: > > 1. I havent worked on getting the wireless to go. Any Links to HOWTOs are > > welcome. > > > > Wireless should work out of the box. I never had an issue with wireless > on this

Re: flashplugin and nspluginwrapper + qemu

2009-05-13 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, drz a écrit : OK, I found the "Better Youtube Addon" in Iceweasel. That worked with every video so far ;) Its downloading the video from flashload first. I just wanted to point out that I use UnPlug, now that is has been made compatible with Iceweasel 3. It works on a lot of websites an

Re: debian lenny installation on an ibook g4 keeps freezing

2009-06-18 Thread Benjamin Cama
Amit Uttamchandani a écrit : On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:42:45 -0400 "Tomislav V. Butkovic" wrote: I'm installing debian lenny on an ibook g4 800mhz 360+mb ram and the Did you add the RAM yourself or was it added by your friend ? Do you know the brand, and its age ? installation process keeps

Re: debian lenny installation on an ibook g4 keeps freezing

2009-06-18 Thread Benjamin Cama
Le jeudi 18 juin 2009 à 15:06 -0400, Tomislav V. Butkovic a écrit : > >To me this sounds like a faulty RAM problem. Try removing any > additionnal RAM module and install Debian the >usual way. > > The additional RAM module is originally installed as the sticker on > the ibook says: "800MHz/384MB/4

Re: Disable selecting with trackpad?

2009-06-19 Thread Benjamin Cama
Matthias Grimm a écrit : Because you wrote that the option changed nothing, I assume you have an USB trackpad. Unfortunately I have no idea how to configure this thing. If it's the case and he uses synaptics, I would advise either : TouchpadOff 2 or TapButton1 0 in /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the

Re: Audio, Soundbylayout: how to use it at 24 bits/96 KHz

2009-08-16 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Just guessing : for mplayer, I know there is the -srate parameter that can set a forced sampling rate for your sound card. Maybe it will work, but the s24le to s16le conversion looks strange too ... Regards, benjamin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: view flash website

2009-09-03 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, the grv a écrit : You're right! Anyway, i'm a graphic designer. For my job I need a rule, a pencil, a sheet of paper, and unfortunely the Adobe tools. :) i MUST to view flash website because -as you known- Adobe fix some standards for the web market. [...] Repeat: "i must". I hope that t

Re: view flash website

2009-09-03 Thread Benjamin Cama
Shawn H. Corey a écrit : Benjamin Cama wrote: The only solution, if you want the original Adobe stuff, would be for them to open-source it, but I am very doubtfull about it. The strange thing is that Adobe did open source Postscript and PDF. Why don't they do Flash too? It depends on

Re: 720p video on G4?

2009-09-13 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Just one remark made me tick : Le dimanche 13 septembre 2009 à 22:52 +0200, Rubén Gómez Antolí a écrit : > Note: At this moment I'm using two monitors (using DVI output), Should > be influenced in this test? I had problems with direct rendering on multiple-monitor setup because of the lack of

Re: no sound on powermac3,3 (powerbook g4 550) debian502 gnome

2009-09-14 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Le lundi 14 septembre 2009 à 23:00 +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin a écrit : > On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 10:27:01PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > > > So, for a distribution kernel, I guess that, once nobody complains > > about the problems, we can just standardize on snd-powermac (and > > have people

Re: no sound on powermac3,3 (powerbook g4 550) debian502 gnome

2009-09-14 Thread Benjamin Cama
Le lundi 14 septembre 2009 à 15:09 -0700, Johannes Berg a écrit : > On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 00:08 +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote: > > > Completely agree with that. snd-aoa was made for newer Macs AFAIK, and > > it works very well here. The one that cause problem here is a > >

Re: Fan control ?

2009-09-16 Thread Benjamin Cama
Niels S. Eliasen a écrit : interesting but must be something only available on newer PowerPC boxes... I have no such thing as "/sys/devices/temperatures" .. or anything remotely resembling this Yes, these entries are offered by the therm-adt746x module, which works only on: "iBook G4,

Random hang when waking from sleep on ibook G4 + 2.6.14.3 kernel

2006-02-04 Thread Benjamin Cama
s, if i check without preempt, how to check it won't happen again...? Sleep/wake a lot of times ? I'll be glad if someone could give me some advice. Thanks in advance. Benjamin Cama -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Random hang when waking from sleep on ibook G4 + 2.6.14.3 kernel

2006-02-05 Thread Benjamin Cama
maged anything... Some questions now : - Did the 2.6.13.1 solve the oops problem when an USB peripheral was plugged when sleeping ? (compared to my 2.6.12) - Did you activate PREEMPT in your 2.6.15.1 ? I'd be interested in this details. Thanks Benjamin Cama -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Random hang when waking from sleep on ibook G4 + 2.6.14.3 kernel

2006-02-11 Thread Benjamin Cama
Le lundi 06 février 2006 à 14:52 +, Joerg Sommer a écrit : > Benjamin Cama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Did the 2.6.13.1 solve the oops problem when an USB peripheral was > > plugged when sleeping ? (compared to my 2.6.12) > > Yes. This was the reason I switch

Re: "cannot create /boot/grub/grub.cfg.new: Read-only file system" on a Power Mac G5

2024-08-19 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi Ilko, Le Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 02:56:25PM +0300, ilko Iliev a écrit : Thanks for the suggestion but regarding: >You must install the package “hfsprogs”, then run: # umount /boot/grub # fsck.hfs -y /dev/sda2 # mount -a # dpkg-configure -a Unfortunately that doesn't work because I can

Re: no keyboard during boot -> fails (in: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-powerpc_2.6.32-5_powerpc.deb)

2010-02-10 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Le mercredi 10 février 2010 à 14:22 +0100, Bernhard Reiter a écrit : > Does no one have an idea on this one? > Is this supposed to work? (I think I just file a report against the package > then.) I did a small test here (PowerBook6,8) to see if I can have an USB keyboard working while still

[PATCH] ignore invalid hw clock for non-interupt-based RTCs

2010-02-20 Thread Benjamin Cama
Regards, benjamin Signed-off-by: Benjamin Cama --- diff --git a/hwclock/clock.h b/hwclock/clock.h index e4eb7eb..a1d1bc9 100644 --- a/hwclock/clock.h +++ b/hwclock/clock.h @@ -23,6 +23,14 @@ extern struct clock_ops *probe_for_kd_clock(void); typedef int bool; +enum { + HWCLOCK_OK =

Re: Debian or ubuntu

2010-03-16 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi everyone, Le mardi 16 mars 2010 à 17:32 +0100, Brian Durant a écrit : > it became a community effort. Gnash and swfdec are both terrible and the > only way that you can view You Tube in a browser. Ubuntu hasn't even > bothered to include these in the default Karmic PPC install. An > alternat

Re: Debian or ubuntu

2010-03-16 Thread Benjamin Cama
Le mercredi 17 mars 2010 à 01:10 +0100, nello martuscielli a écrit : > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Benjamin Cama wrote: > > > > > BTW, the PPC platform is still kind of updated kernel-wise, as the macio > > libata driver landed in 2.6.33 thanks to benh. It allows

Re: Bug#572605: still present -- installation-reports: Sid d-i on PowerPC can not find driver for network interface

2010-03-24 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, I don't know the exact cause of this bug, but there is not enough informations (for me) to try to understand this bug. Could you give at least a dmesg result when in the installer ? And what exact message does it outputs when looking for the adapter ? Regards, benjamin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Partition and Boot loader for Squeeze on G4

2010-04-26 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Le lundi 26 avril 2010 à 13:54 -0400, Rick Thomas a écrit : > Does yaboot know enough about LVMs and RAIDs to find the kernel and > initrd in a root partition that's in a logical volume on a software > raid-1? No, yaboot doesn't know how to do that. > To be safe, I'd create a real, live,

Re: Auto-booting USB stick in OF

2010-04-28 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi Risto, Le mercredi 28 avril 2010 à 09:00 -0300, Gunther Furtado a écrit : > 2010/4/28 Risto Suominen : > > 2010/4/28, Gunther Furtado : > >> > >> have you tried to boot from a MacOS Classic cd holding down "C" as it > >> chimes with(out) an usb stick present? > >> > > I'm pretty sure I have. Lo

Re: Segmentation fault at start-up

2010-05-30 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Does this segfault also appear on an already booted system, after upgrading the package to the offending version ? This could help getting a backtrace from gdb. Regards, benjamin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: Debian PowerPc installer initramfs-tools generates malformed yaboot.conf created when alternate partitions use UUID= in fstab

2010-06-27 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Le dimanche 27 juin 2010 à 15:30 -0400, Rick Thomas a écrit : > This is reported as Debian bug #587290 -- please followup to the bug > report. > > The generated /etc/yaboot.conf contains lines > append="root=UUID ro" > for partitions that have their /etc/fstab root line using "UUID=..

Re: Debian PowerPc installer initramfs-tools generates malformed yaboot.conf created when alternate partitions use UUID= in fstab

2010-06-30 Thread Benjamin Cama
[Trying a repost, got blocked as spam ...] Hi, Le dimanche 27 juin 2010 à 22:01 -0300, Rogério Brito a écrit : > We don't exactly need to have DD's to take care of the PPC problems. > While that would make things easier, it is not a strict requirement, as > long as one has a powerpc machine. Ide

Re: Debian PowerPc installer initramfs-tools generates malformed yaboot.conf created when alternate partitions use UUID= in fstab

2010-06-30 Thread Benjamin Cama
[Trying a repost, got blocked as spam ...] Hi, Le lundi 28 juin 2010 à 12:13 +0200, Michel Dänzer a écrit : > On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 01:21 +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote: > > > > - there are currently no DD that care about powerpc problems (or we > > could rather say that no

Re: Which module should one use for sound on pmacs? (was: Re: debian-testing-powerpc-xfce+lxde, 7/26/10)

2010-07-28 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Le mercredi 28 juillet 2010 à 16:02 -0300, Rogério Brito a écrit : > Right. I am CC'ing some people that can potentially have answers to this > question. If you have any comments, it would be nice to get this sorted > out for the distributions. :-) As you stated earlier, this has been brought

Unidentified modifications to yaboot.conf [Re: patches to ybin]

2010-07-29 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Le mercredi 28 juillet 2010 à 23:49 -0400, Rick Thomas a écrit : > > The kernel package just uses the yaboot.conf that's already there. > > Well, that can't be entirely true. If I install Lenny on one of my > test machines then try to upgrade to Squeeze, I get a garbled > yaboot.conf and

Re: Font Led

2010-09-14 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Le mardi 14 septembre 2010 à 22:01 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter a écrit : > $ cat/proc/version > Linux version 2.6.36-rc4-aragorn (riese...@aragorn) (gcc version 4.4.5 > 20100909 (prerelease) (Debian 4.4.4-14) ) #1 Mon Sep 13 20:48:12 CEST 2010 Managing leds is done through /sys nowadays. I don

Taking over maintainance of yaboot ?

2010-09-16 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, I am trying to exactly understand the bugs that currently affect the Debian PPC port and particularly yaboot. There are many bugs around it, but even before trying to fix them, we should check if it's even possible to get them applied ! And as we saw (a lot due to Rick Thomas work) yaboot is c

#580455 yabootconfig does the correct thing, your yaboot.conf must be modified by something else

2010-09-16 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, I just found by looking around that yabootconfig, the script used by the yaboot package (very important distinction) to generate /etc/yaboot.conf actually _knows_ how to handle LABEL and UUID; see http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debootloaders/trunk/yaboot/ybin/yabootconfig . Furthermore, the yaboo

Re: How does linux-base modify /etc/yaboot.conf ?

2010-09-16 Thread Benjamin Cama
Le jeudi 16 septembre 2010 à 15:12 +0200, Benjamin Cama a écrit : > You mentioned that linux-base may modify /etc/yaboot.conf. I think it > might be the culprit for this bug, but I would first like to know how > and why it does that ? OK, I was right, thanks to your hint:

Re: netbooting

2010-09-17 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Le vendredi 17 septembre 2010 à 07:31 -0300, Gunther Furtado a écrit : > I've compiled yaboot from > http://yaboot.ozlabs.org/snapshots/yaboot-1.3.15-rc.tar.gz > and copied to the server's /tftpboot directory and... it works! It > takes a lot longer to get to bootprompt but it works. I've al

Re: Taking over maintainance of yaboot ?

2010-09-19 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, First, let me say that I'm glad to ear from you ! I think that other will agree too. Le vendredi 17 septembre 2010 à 22:05 +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME a écrit : > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 02:01:52PM +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote: > > Then, updating yaboot to the latest known active deve

Re: [Debootloaders-yaboot] Bug#587290: How does linux-base modify /etc/yaboot.conf ?

2010-09-19 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi Ben, Le samedi 18 septembre 2010 à 22:11 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit : > The value of the kernel (or rather initramfs) root parameter generally > does need to include an '=' character and linux-base.postinst is correct > to use it. It must then double-quote the value in yaboot.conf so that >

Re: Taking over maintainance of yaboot ?

2010-09-20 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Le lundi 20 septembre 2010 à 11:42 -0400, Milan Kupcevic a écrit : > Debian is frozen for the Squeeze release. Suddenly updated packages to > the latest upstream version will not make it into the Squeeze.[1] Yes, it's sad it only happens now, but I think yaboot is a very particular case: it h

Re: ofpath is not compatible with non-builtin disk controllers

2010-09-28 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi Rick, Le vendredi 24 septembre 2010 à 15:53 -0400, Rick Thomas a écrit : > First, let me apologize for the confusing non-specificity of my bug > reports to you and everyone else who is following this (and related) > bug(s). The only excuse I can offer is that at the time I was > submitti

Call for testers: new yaboot package release

2010-09-28 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi everyone, So, yaboot in debian is currently suffering from a lot of problems, and until now we were only talking about it. Here is some code to test it, now to really see what's still causing problems and what's solved. Here is the (temporary) place where you can find it : http://benoar.fdn.fr

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release

2010-09-29 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Le mercredi 29 septembre 2010 à 00:24 -0400, Rick Thomas a écrit : > Cool! Thanks. > Now, how do we test it? Well, for now I was only thinking about testing it outside the installer… > Can somebody from the installer group help us figure out how to get > this code into the installer envi

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release

2010-09-30 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Le mercredi 29 septembre 2010 à 21:52 +0200, Jeroen Diederen a écrit : > I tested this new yaboot in my Squeeze partition on my PowerBook G3 > Pismo. I installed it without problems and I issued a ybin -v. I > rebooted and yaboot 1.3.16 smiled at me. I am back in my Squeeze > partition, no pro

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - report installation PowerMac G5

2010-10-01 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Le jeudi 30 septembre 2010 à 22:29 +0200, Tiresia Giuno a écrit : > I let just the package installer installing yaboot. After that I ran > ofpath and it detected correctly my two SATA Drivers. Nice to know it works on SATA. Did the previous version (1.3.13a) work too ? > After that I ran yab

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release

2010-10-01 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Le vendredi 01 octobre 2010 à 10:11 +0200, Thomas Constans a écrit : > I'have tested your package on a ibook g4 with success > > I am using uuid as disc/partition identifier in yaboot.conf > > i am also using crypted root fs (luks) > > package installed, ybin ran, laptop successfully reboot

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - report installation PowerMac G5

2010-10-01 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Le vendredi 01 octobre 2010 à 05:59 -0300, Gunther Furtado a écrit : > Em 30Set2010 (quinta), Tiresia Giuno disse: > > After that I ran yabootconfig. It creates a yaboot.conf but it stops > > immediately without running mkofboot. Last massage: > > 'yabootconfig: yaboot is not installed correc

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - report installation PowerMac G5

2010-10-01 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi Zsombor Le vendredi 01 octobre 2010 à 15:43 +0200, Zsombor a écrit : > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Benjamin Cama wrote: > (...) > > We got no answer from the installer team regarding an easy way to test > > it, so if someone feels like building a custom inst

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release

2010-10-03 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi Aurélien, Le samedi 02 octobre 2010 à 19:33 +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME a écrit : > Can you please produce a standard debian package with quilt patches? I will try, but will need some time. I think some git util is able to do that automatically, isn't it ? > It was like that previously and I did n

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation

2010-10-05 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Le mardi 05 octobre 2010 à 15:12 +0200, Zsombor a écrit : > Oct 5 14:11:33 yaboot-installer: chroot: can't execute 'mkofboot': No > such file or directory This is a packaging mistake, already reported here, and fixed in my git repo. But the package is not up to date. > I included the offici

Debugging yaboot issues (was: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer)

2010-10-10 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi Zsombor, First, my apologies for being so slow to answer. And thank you for the custom installer you built. I am very thankfull for your enthusiasm, but I would like to point out some thing that you're doing wrong. I am saying that not to deter anyone to do anything, but to try to be more orga

Re: Installing nouveau hints?

2010-10-10 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Le samedi 09 octobre 2010 à 17:52 -0700, Gnu Turd a écrit : > I chatted with a fellow over at the ubuntu-ppc IRC channel and > apparently the PPC version is released at the same time as the regular > Ubuntu releases (tomorrow, I gather). He also said that even with > Ubuntu getting nouveau t

Re: Debugging yaboot issues (was: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer)

2010-10-11 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi Gaudenz, Le lundi 11 octobre 2010 à 09:41 +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin a écrit : > Did you only modify the yaboot package or did you modify > yaboot-installer as well? I only modified the yaboot package. From what I gathered regarding this update, yaboot-installer will need a small change too for P

Re: Debugging yaboot issues (was: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer)

2010-10-13 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Le mercredi 13 octobre 2010 à 09:51 -0700, Gary a écrit : > I tried to do this with Zsombor's recent build but, unfortunately, the > network driver wasn't recognized Is it recognized with the original installer ? If it's the case, it means there's definitly something wrong with Zsombor image

Re: Debugging yaboot issues (was: Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - experimental installer)

2010-10-14 Thread Benjamin Cama
Le mercredi 13 octobre 2010 à 10:32 -0700, Gary a écrit : > Thanks for the sleuthing, Ben. But I can't help but wonder how the > Lenny installer works to allow me to install unstable or testing on my > G5 with SATA...? Am I missing something important in the multiple > threads spawned by this issue

Re: Debugging yaboot issues

2010-10-14 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi Joseph, thanks for answering ! Le mercredi 13 octobre 2010 à 14:18 -0400, Joseph Jezak a écrit : > What devices don't work with the new ofpath? To be honest, I don't know. And it will be very hard for anyone to make a list of such devices. > What benefit is there to keeping the old one around

Re: Fixing bug #572869: ofpath doesn't work in the absence of /proc/scsi/scsi

2010-10-25 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Le lundi 25 octobre 2010 à 03:11 -0400, Milan Kupcevic a écrit : > Fixing bug #572869: ofpath doesn't work in the absence of /proc/scsi/scsi A "fix" (Joseph's ofpath rewrite) has already been proposed and "only" need to be incorporated into current ofpath for backward-compatibility. I wanted

Re: Yaboot

2010-11-29 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Le samedi 27 novembre 2010 à 13:22 +0100, Jeroen Diederen a écrit : > What about yaboot? Does anyone have any update on this ongoing problem? > There was some activity a while ago but it vanished after a few weeks. I > have the idea that we won't have yaboot when Squeeze gets released. Any > n

Re: Yaboot

2010-11-29 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Le lundi 29 novembre 2010 à 22:55 +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin a écrit : > Sorry, but that's not the way Free Software works. Don't wait for > others to tell you what to do, show us the code! I'm not exactly "waiting" for anyone: I already integrated the latest yaboot version into the Debian packa

Re: Yaboot

2010-12-01 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi Aurélien, Le mercredi 01 décembre 2010 à 23:10 +0100, Aurélien GÉRÔME a écrit : > Benjamin, rest assured your work has been very much appreciated, > at least by me. :] Thanks ! Sorry I didn't finish everything I wanted to do, but it's nice to see you eventually made an upload to unstable ! >

Re: Yaboot

2010-12-02 Thread Benjamin Cama
ally. The only advantage it has is it's released under GPL. > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 02:17:01AM +0100, Benjamin Cama wrote: > >> Well, I didn't see any message from him here regarding this issue. I > >> can't guess what people are doing. Seeing this ML's a

Re: Unofficial Squeeze NetInst CDs: call for testers

2010-12-15 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Very nice to have an almost official iso! Le mardi 14 décembre 2010 à 04:22 +0100, Aurélien GÉRÔME a écrit : > * yaboot-installer_1.1.19; Does this include the amiga partition map renumbering fix? (I'm just making sure you noticed it) > * os-prober_1.42; > * rootskel_1.93. Don't know

Re: trouble netbooting debian on xserver g4 ppc cluster node

2011-01-11 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Netbooting iBook/PowerBook has always been strange to me, so here are my advices : > Can anyone offer any guidance as to what files to > place in the tftpboot directory? We are assuming vmlinux, initrd.gz, yaboot, > yaboot.conf and boot.msg from > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/

Re: Anybody know how to netboot Debian on a PowerMac?

2011-02-11 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi Rick, Le dimanche 06 février 2011 à 23:44 -0500, Rick Thomas a écrit : > I'd like to setup a PowerMac to run diskless. […] > Questions: I think almost all your questions are answered in a message by me to Patrick Boutet one month ago : http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2011/01/msg00013.ht

Re: Yaboot

2011-02-14 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi Joseph, Le lundi 14 février 2011 à 09:04 -0500, Joseph Jezak a écrit : > I've finally gotten around to patching the existing ofpath as requested > here. If I could get some testing, that would be greatly appreciated! > I've attached the whole ofpath program here. The patch against the > yaboot

Re: Yaboot

2011-02-14 Thread Benjamin Cama
Le lundi 14 février 2011 à 11:27 -0500, Joseph Jezak a écrit : > I'll have to look back in the archives, but I haven't seen any upstream > patches for this issue. I don't think there was any. It was just uploaded by Milan "directly". > I admit, I haven't followed the discussion on > this list. Ha

Re: A short tutorial on running GRUB2 on a PPC

2011-04-03 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Le samedi 02 avril 2011 à 22:17 -0400, Super Bisquit a écrit : > […] OpenBSD […] NetBSD […] FreeBSD […] Do you know we're on _debian_-powerpc ML? > You may think I'm being an asshole to you; but, I am only giving you > realistic arguments. What's the point of this rant? Please, be more kind

Re: A short tutorial on running GRUB2 on a PPC

2011-04-03 Thread Benjamin Cama
Le dimanche 03 avril 2011 à 11:52 -0400, Super Bisquit a écrit : > You do know that his question should have been forwarded to the yaboot > mailing list? This is a question about firmware interfaces and not > limited to Debian. The thing is, I don't see any bootloader-related question in his first

Re: iBook G3 & Squeeze -- any hope?

2011-04-06 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Le mercredi 06 avril 2011 à 14:56 +0100, James Tappin a écrit : > While the install went fine, on reboot I was unable to get any kind of > desktop. With the default boot there was just a grey rectangle on the > screen and a speckled bar near the bottom. Booting with video=ofonly, > the boot me

Re: Disk screwed up with ybin

2011-04-19 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Le mardi 19 avril 2011 à 06:00 -0700, johnny-crash a écrit : > […] the whole system froze and after > a hard reset there was no yboot anymore. Just a white blank screen. > I booted a macosx CD and wanted to repair the partitions but the 160 GB are > just somehow 20 GB now. Thus I did nothing.

Re: Disk screwed up with ybin

2011-04-19 Thread Benjamin Cama
Le mardi 19 avril 2011 à 08:25 -0700, johnny-crash a écrit : > The disk is quite new and I had never issues and just now after playing with > ybin and rebooting a couple of times it dies? Seems to be a big coincidence > but, on the other hand, who knows? Well, maybe I was a bit quick at diagnosin

Re: Disk screwed up with ybin

2011-04-20 Thread Benjamin Cama
Le mardi 19 avril 2011 à 16:46 -0700, johnny-crash a écrit : > boot=/dev/hda2 > device=/pci@f400/ata-6@d/disk@0: > partition=3 > root=/dev/hda3 > timeout=100 > install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot > magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot > enablecdboot > macosx=/dev/hda4 > defaultos=macosx > > image=/boot

Re: Disk screwed up with ybin

2011-04-20 Thread Benjamin Cama
Le mercredi 20 avril 2011 à 05:39 -0700, johnny-crash a écrit : > Sorry that this was misleading. Ok, I see, no problem. > Right, no yaboot, no OS at all. White screen means just a white screen. No > apple logo, nothing. OpenFirmware works though. To be sure I understand: you used to be able to

Re: Disk screwed up with ybin

2011-04-20 Thread Benjamin Cama
Le mercredi 20 avril 2011 à 06:32 -0700, johnny-crash a écrit : > Yes, I was able to boot the macosx and debian rescue CD but neither OS from > disk. > Thus I'll do my tests and post my findings. You could run smartctl from linux live CD, then, to see how bad is your disk. It's in the smartmontool

Re: Disk screwed up with ybin

2011-04-21 Thread Benjamin Cama
Le jeudi 21 avril 2011 à 05:16 -0700, johnny-crash a écrit : > So, next step failed. There is no target mode anymore ;-( You mean, it does nothing at all? So, yes, your disk appears no to work whatever the mean. > Subsequently there is only one hope left. Maybe it is the controller and not > the

Re: Using a second screen with an iBook G4

2011-04-24 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi Rogério, Le dimanche 24 avril 2011 à 05:00 -0300, Rogério Brito a écrit : > * When I plug an external (1920x1080) monitor on it, I can only get 1024x768 > on > the external monitor, which is, of course, quite bad. More than that, I can > only > use the external monitor if I disable the intern

Re: Problem with backlight control and question about kernel information and patches

2011-11-01 Thread Benjamin Cama
Hi, Bumping this quite old thread, but with a solution. Le lundi 29 août 2011 à 09:45 +0200, Michel Dänzer a écrit : > On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 01:52 +0100, Clea F. Rees wrote: > > uname info: 3.0.0-1-powerpc #1 Sun Jul 24 13:59:10 UTC 2011 ppc GNU/Linux > > > > Machine is a 12" G4 Aluminium Power