Mate Desktop crashes

2024-01-23 Thread Christoph
r that installs default with the Mate Desktop Greetings Christoph OpenPGP_0x407E44339C3B76B4.asc Description: OpenPGP public key OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

psimo? Re: pmud on iBook questions

2001-01-23 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hello ! I do not know that this snooze-thing works with the new iBooks. AFAIK the pismo has the same pmu, how about that? Bye, Christoph Michael Schmitz schrieb: > > > Nope, it's not. fbset 0 does nothing useful. fblevel 0 would be equivalent > > > to fblevel off th

Re: m68k buildd presents significant problem for non-us and testing

2001-02-17 Thread Christoph Martin
is holds a lot of nonus stuff from going into testing. Christoph

Re: firewire drives bootable?

2001-02-21 Thread Christoph Ewering
some endian-problems and maybe still some support missing for the FireWire-Contollers used by Apple. By, Christoph Grant Miller schrieb: > > Easy question: > > Are external firewire drives bootable (like on a 2000 Powerbook)? and is > there support under Linux for

Q: double Boot for SMP 7300

2001-03-01 Thread Christoph Ewering
back to MacOS. AFAIK yaboot only works with NewWorld-Macs and a boot-menu run by OpenFirmware doesn´t help because OpenFirmware on this machine is so buggy. Any suggestions are welcome, thanks Christoph -- Dipl. Ing. Christoph EweringC & E Informationsdienste GbR 0 52 54 80 6

Summary: Q: double Boot for SMP 7300

2001-03-04 Thread Christoph Ewering
OldWorld-Macs. Bye, Christoph -- Dipl. Ing. Christoph EweringC & E Informationsdienste GbR 0 52 54 80 68 66 oder 0173 566 266 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Crash! kernel 2.4.2 jumps to mon

2001-03-05 Thread Christoph Ewering
c00789F8 " I´m running kernel 2.4.2 from ppc.linuxcare.com Hope some developers can see what went wrong. If someone needs more info, I try to reproduce this bug. Bye, Christoph -- Dipl. Ing. Christoph EweringC & E Informationsdienste GbR 0 52 54 80 68 66 oder 0173 566 266 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Crash! kernel 2.4.2 jumps to mon

2001-03-06 Thread Christoph Ewering
don´t know the mail address of Paul, could you please forward this mail to him. Bye and thanks, Christoph Cort Dougan schrieb: > > Can you send me your System.map for that kernel? > > The linuxcare.com kernels that Paul keeps have changes that he's not ready > to push

Help Ti PB -- nervous breakdown

2001-03-10 Thread Christoph Ewering
e to get linux on my TiPB to work as smooth as on my pismo. Thanks, Christoph BTW. I can not afford two PowerBooks, the pismo has to be sold as soone -- Dipl. Ing. Christoph EweringC & E Informationsdienste GbR 0 52 54 80 68 66 oder 0173 566 266 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ti PB -- nervous breakdown

2001-03-12 Thread Christoph Ewering
ty128fb. > In any way, using aty128fb will get you better results than offb. I think > Olad Hering ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) have some patches for the video mode of this > machine to be supported by aty128fb. The sandard modedb may have it too. O.K. I will put it as cc to this mail. Just an id

Re: pmud / harddisk / kernel problem

2001-04-03 Thread Christoph Ewering
happens when I type snooze in a text-terminal. The TiPB goes to sleep and wakes up if I run X and type snooze in a Xterm. Hope this helps a bit, Christoph Benjamin Herrenschmidt schrieb: > > >On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 02:49:55PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >> Ke

Re: pmud / harddisk / kernel problem

2001-04-05 Thread Christoph Ewering
during sleep. Do you know if the ethernet-chip in the pismo or TiPB is powered off if i do ifdown eth0? That´s enough, don´t want to vast your time, bye, Christoph Benjamin Herrenschmidt schrieb: > > >I´ve just tested your kernel on my TiPB and can tell that both users are > &

Re: pmud / harddisk / kernel problem

2001-04-05 Thread Christoph Ewering
> That´s enough, don´t want to vast your time, bye, Sorry should be waste not vast :-) -- Dipl. Ing. Christoph EweringC & E Informationsdienste GbR 0 52 54 80 68 66 oder 0173 566 266 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: reiserfs empirical study (very long)

2001-05-30 Thread Christoph Ewering
rivers, etc.) > If the system disk of my PPC box dies, I'll be happy to restore it from backup > on some other machine... That´s no problem with the idea above. For restore speed is no need, so it does not matter if i loose 1% filesystem performance for backups or repairs. But i think

Re: reiserfs empirical study (very long)

2001-05-30 Thread Christoph Ewering
by a new one. > its all tradeoffs and what the best ones are to make. in this case i > suspect code simplicity and maintainability is going to win out. That´s what I mean, a lot of work at the big-endian-side to support software that was written with little-endian machines in mind. But

Re: TiBook firmware update

2001-06-07 Thread Christoph Ewering
nd 1% on LinuxPPC and MacOS 9 Bye, Christoph -- Dipl. Ing. Christoph EweringC & E Informationsdienste GbR 0 52 54 80 68 66 oder 0173 566 266 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2.4.5-pre3-benh and 604-MP segfaults

2001-06-12 Thread Christoph Ewering
it..." for ever. Looks that there is something broken with SMP and 2.4.5 Bye, Christoph -- Dipl. Ing. Christoph EweringC & E Informationsdienste GbR 0 52 54 80 68 66 oder 0173 566 266 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SCSI I/O errors galore, PART II

2001-06-20 Thread Christoph Ewering
/O and it damaged my file-system. With MESH set to 5MB/s the problem was gone. Try to compile a kernel with reduced MESH-speed. Bye, Christoph -- Dipl. Ing. Christoph EweringC & E Informationsdienste GbR 0 52 54 80 68 66 oder 0173 566 266 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian PPC Installation

2001-07-09 Thread Christoph Ewering
´m running a 604/200 MP in a 7300 and at the moment I´m using miboot (faked systemfolder) Last time the 7300 crashed with a 2.4.2 SMP and since then I was not able to boot any more. The kernel jumps into debugger everytime I try to boot. This happend during comipile of a new 2.4.6 SMP kernel and a doi

sleep with TiPB on 2.4.6 broken Re: Sleep on TiBook, getting Gnome sounds working

2001-07-10 Thread Christoph Ewering
ng to sleep" but before this the TiPB dies. Hope this could help, bye Christoph -- Dipl. Ing. Christoph EweringC & E Informationsdienste GbR 0 52 54 80 68 66 oder 0173 566 266 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: benh 2.4.6 kernel

2001-07-11 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hello Benjamin! Same for me, rsynced, recompiled and did a quick test. sleep works within X and console! Thanks for your work, Christoph Colin Walters schrieb: > > Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Could one of you quickly test if the prob

Re: [OT] Network file sharing

2001-07-13 Thread Christoph Schaefer
Salut, On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 07:24:37PM +1200, James Tyson wrote: > > I have NFS and SMB shares on my network for accessing things like my mp3 > and DivX archives, (SMB for my neighbor, who uses windows) and I was > wondering what I can use to share files on my Linux box to my iBook when I > ha

Re: Memory Upgrade

2001-07-26 Thread Christoph Ewering
be very dispointed if you remove the bottom case, cause you will only see the mainboard and no mem-slot. Hope this helps, Christoph "Harold G. Stevenson" schrieb: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to upgrade the memory on a PowerBook G-3 2000 series(I believe >

Re: powerbook titanium

2001-08-07 Thread Christoph Schaefer
Salut, > With the cd in the drive i booted the machine pressing 'c' whilst it boots, > all I get is a white screen and nothing happens... > > Have I rather missed the point? nop. Press command + option + 'o'+ 'f' to get into openfirmware and type

can not switch to virtual terminal since upgrading kernel and gdm

2006-08-29 Thread Christoph Ewering
kernel <=2.6.17.8. But with kernel 2.6.17.11 and 2.6.17.9 this is not possible any more. Maybe it is not a kernel problem, i am running gdm and i upgrade gdm in the same timeslot. So maybe gdm overwrote a config-parameter? Every help is welcome, bye, Christoph P.S. I found some articles

Woody an a new ibook (Radeon Mobility)

2003-01-27 Thread Christoph Siess
/sucess stories for my? regards, Christoph -- Christoph Siess [EMAIL PROTECTED] | There are only 10 types of people in the world: send a mail with subject| Those who understand binary, "fetch key" for my public key | and those who don't. pgpNNfE4AKN9l.pgp Description: PGP signature

again ibook 2.2 xfree problem

2003-02-01 Thread Christoph Siess
tions? regards, Christoph -- Christoph Siess [EMAIL PROTECTED] | There are only 10 types of people in the world: send a mail with subject| Those who understand binary, "fetch key" for my public key | and those who don't. pgpq5aDNmIU4m.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: again ibook 2.2 xfree problem

2003-02-01 Thread Christoph Siess
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 07:24:27PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > DRI seems to only work with agpgart on newer iBooks. If that's not the > problem, please provide XF86Config-4 and XFree86.0.log. thanks a lot! I commented the DRI Module out and now i worked :) regards, Christoph

ibook 2.2 X sleepmode

2003-03-09 Thread Christoph Siess
ame when i trune DRI of. regards, Christoph -- Christoph Siess [EMAIL PROTECTED] | There are only 10 types of people in the world: send a mail with subject| Those who understand binary, "fetch key" for my public key | and those who don't. pgpXGiviArVaR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Debian and new airport card

2003-03-26 Thread Christoph Siess
Hi there, how is the current status of the driver for the "new" airport cards? reagards, Christoph -- Christoph Siess [EMAIL PROTECTED] | There are only 10 types of people in the world: send a mail with subject| Those who understand binary, "fetch key" for my public

compile and linking problems with kernel 2.5.67, "-fPIC"?

2003-04-16 Thread Christoph Ewering
" I googled the mail archive: it is a known problem, but I did not found any solution. I always see "-fPIC" mention that is all. Hope someone can help me, bye Christoph BTW. I am running debian (testing) -- Dipl. Ing. Christoph Ewering C & E Informationsdienste GbR Autoris

Re: debian installer not finding my hard disk on ibook

2003-04-17 Thread Christoph Borsbach
llman for > suggesting this). Afaik this only affects some ibooks with a dvd/cd-rw combo drive due to a bug in its firmware. Newer kernels seem to have a work-around for that. > > fyi this is an ibook2 > > Julius Have fun, Chris - -- Christoph Borsbach GPG:0x98CBBC9F (www.gn

Re: compile and linking problems with kernel 2.5.67, "-fPIC"?

2003-04-17 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hello Michel! Am Mittwoch, 16.04.03 um 23:30 Uhr schrieb Michel Dänzer: On Mit, 2003-04-16 at 13:02, Christoph Ewering wrote: I trying to get vdr (DVB video recording) running on my beige G3. Because I had no luck with 2.4.10-ben* i thought about 2.5.67. This source has the dvb-drivers

Re: compile and linking problems with kernel 2.5.67, "-fPIC"?

2003-04-17 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hello Michel! Am Donnerstag, 17.04.03 um 20:50 Uhr schrieb Michel Dänzer: On Don, 2003-04-17 at 18:27, Christoph Ewering wrote: drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x2a284): In function `do_fd_request': : undefined reference to `sti' drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x2a284): In function `do_

VDR (video disk recorder) on PPC?

2003-04-17 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hello! Is there anybody running vdr (video disk recorder) on PPC? I have DVB-C card and it looks like it is working, but I can not see any TV-signal. Maybe someone can help, bye Christoph

next power up time, scheduled startup?, pmacpow does not work, nvram-wakeup?

2003-05-06 Thread Christoph Ewering
better to support http://sourceforge.net/projects/nvram-wakeup on PPC. Bye, thanks, Christoph -- Dipl. Ing. Christoph Ewering C & E Informationsdienste GbR Autorisierter Apple Händler und Systemhaus in Paderborn Hatzfelder Str. 68F Tel.: 05254 - 80 68 66 33104 Paderborn

Re: next power up time, scheduled startup?, pmacpow does not work, nvram-wakeup?

2003-05-07 Thread Christoph Ewering
... There is no DVB-support in MacOS X :-( but we can port it from linux to MacOS X ;-) Bye, Christoph

kernel compile error at ide-cd.h

2003-06-04 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hello ! Just synced to 2.4.20-ben10 and tried to build a new kernel, but it stops at ide-cd.h. Every help is highly welcome . Bye, Christoph gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -I

cursor lost after VRAM upgrade (beige G3 DT)

2003-06-04 Thread Christoph Ewering
. Bye,thanks Christoph -- Dipl. Ing. Christoph Ewering C & E Informationsdienste GbR Autorisierter Apple Händler und Systemhaus in Paderborn Hatzfelder Str. 68F Tel.: 05254 - 80 68 66 33104 Paderborn Fax.: 05254 - 80 68 64 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apple PowerMac G5

2003-06-26 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:46:50PM +, paubert wrote: > Not exactly since there are several claims that this is an Apple design, > but the 970 bus "was designed exclusively for Apple" according to IBM. > I'm speculating, but I would not be surprised if in exchange IBM had > the right to use the

Re: powerbook, airport and kismet

2003-07-24 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:57:06AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > You need an additional patch to enable monitor mode for the airport > card. There are several floating around on the net, I can send you > the one I use if you are interested. I'd be interested in one that applies to the current d

Re: debian-installer on ppc64

2003-11-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:22:27AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > 1. Installer requires devfs support. In 2.6 devfs is pretty much > >deprecated, so it would be nice if d-i could handle a non devfs kernel. > >It doesnt look like there are too many places that care. The initrd had > >an e

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Yaboot 1.3.11 released

2003-11-20 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:24:46AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > Yaboot 1.3.11 is now available. > > This release adds support for the new PowerMac G5 machines, and the > aluminum PowerBooks. Support in ofpath has been added for the SATA > controller found in the G5, also add-on IDE controllers

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Yaboot 1.3.11 released

2003-11-26 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:03:01AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > You don't look at the bogus /proc/scsi stuff for that, do you? > > in current ofpath yes, changing this requires significant rework which > is not going to happen in the 1.x version of yaboot/ofpath. Well, it apears you aren't actu

time is two hours off since 2.4.23-rc5-ben0, vdr and vdradmin

2003-12-01 Thread Christoph Ewering
sta. Bye, Christoph Ewering -- Dipl. Ing. Christoph Ewering C & E Mediensysteme GmbH Autorisierter Apple Händler und Systemhaus in Paderborn Hatzfelder Str. 68F Tel.: 05254 - 80 68 66 33104 Paderborn Fax.: 05254 - 80 68 64 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Mob.:

Re: powerpc d-i daily builds reactivated, use 2.6.12 kernels, including 64bit kernels, miboot floppies dropped for now.

2005-08-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 02:18:07AM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > > Remember the debian kernel is generic for all powerpc plateforms, from > > old world to prep boxes, to powerbooks to the last 32bit IBM chrps and > > the genesi pegasos machine, so there is a bit more constraints here, > > but it is

Re: png problems on powerpc and s390 (was: Bug#322821: libpng12-0: new version breaks pdflatex)

2005-09-28 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 08:58:01AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > Alignment seems to be the same between ppc and i386. (not that I would > know or care about bitfields) alignment for 64bit integer types is not the same for i386 vs everything else. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Can't Install on new PowerBooks - NO IDE

2005-11-26 Thread Christoph Cebulla
Hi Andrea, > Same installation issue (IDE) here with the newest powerbook5,8 15". > So it looks like we should try to patch the 2.6.14 kernel. Ok. When I > am done compiling, where should I copy it? USB stick? So I suppose I > will have to mount it at boot time when installing, just before

Farallon 21143 autosensing does not work?

2001-08-31 Thread Christoph Ewering
, Christoph -- Dipl. Ing. Christoph EweringC & E Informationsdienste GbR 0 52 54 80 68 66 oder 0173 566 266 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: adaptec 2906 scsi card

2001-09-04 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hello! How about a new kernel? Since 2.4.2 I was not able to use my 2940U2B (Apple 2940) until 2.4.9. There was some heavy work done in the AIC74xxx-driver, maybe a new kernel will help you. Bye, Christoph Andrew Sharp schrieb: > > crisbill wrote: > > > > I wrote to

Re: HFS Plus on Linux ?

2001-09-12 Thread Christoph Ewering
you have the right to say to someone on this mailing list "shut up". Do you know about smileys? :-), :-(, etc. This makes live a lot easier. Hope you think about it and don´t be too angry, but I had to say this. Bye, Christoph -- Dipl. Ing. Christoph EweringC & E Infor

Re: HFS Plus on Linux ?

2001-09-12 Thread Christoph Ewering
That was the expected reaction :-) Ethan Benson schrieb: > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 10:25:11AM +0200, Christoph Ewering wrote: > > I read this mailing list for some month now and one thing that really > > annoyes me is your arrogant writing style. > > Looks to me that yo

Re: HFS Plus on Linux ?

2001-09-13 Thread Christoph Ewering
i tried to remove a bunch of files from a hfs-partition. So I do not remove any files form my hfs-partition :-) (I sometimes do with MacOS). I never had a crash when I coppied my kernels to this partition or remove one or two files. Bye, Christoph -- Dipl. Ing. Christoph EweringC & E Informationsdienste GbR 0 52 54 80 68 66 oder 0173 566 266 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with SMP

2001-10-06 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hello ! I´m running a 604/200 MP in a 7300 PowerMac and they work fine since kernel 2.4.6 or so. Looks to me that you boot into Linux with BootX. You have to use miboot or quik to boot a MP Old-World Mac to get both processors for Linux. Bye, Christoph Rogerio Brito schrieb

does Yaboot really need first partition?

2001-10-10 Thread Christoph Bohle
1,\\yaboot). but it does not work automatically like it should. i would prefer not to do all the mac-os installation again. so, is it possible to live with a bootstrap partition after the mac-os partition? is it (or will it be) possible to make such a bootstrap partition work normally? christoph

Re: Last call for testing: yaboot-1.3.4pre3

2001-10-12 Thread Christoph Ewering
perfectly on my TiPB) that gets to the yaboot-prompt on my TiPB. Bye, Christoph Ethan Benson schrieb: > > I am going to take the resounding silence as an indication that there > are no problems with yaboot 1.3.4pre. > > I plan to release 1.3.4 this weekend unless someon

badblocks

2001-10-16 Thread Christoph Bohle
r with the badblocks command (or bad behaviour of OS X). (I did the badblocks check after some less succesfull experiments with the 2.4.11 Kernel that caused some problems with the filesystem. Suppose this has nothing to to with the badblocks.) Thanks, Christoph

German Keyboard under X 4.1.0 on iBook2

2001-10-20 Thread Christoph Bohle
"xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "macintosh" Option "XkbLayout" "de" EndSection Instead of "macintosh" I tried "pc101" and "pc104" and instead of "de" I tried "us". Does anyone know why this doesn't work? Thanks a lot Christoph.

Re: Bug#116780: util-linux: hwclock shouldn't be run

2001-11-04 Thread Christoph Ewering
o not have this battery. If you remove the main-battery the NVRAM-settings and RTC are toasted in a few seconds or minutes. Bye, Christoph

Re: Bug#116780: util-linux: hwclock shouldn't be run

2001-11-05 Thread Christoph Ewering
Ethan Benson wrote: On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 08:28:31PM +0100, Christoph Ewering wrote: But iBooks do not have this battery. If you remove the main-battery the NVRAM-settings and RTC are toasted in a few seconds or minutes. rtc for sure, but i don't think nvram settings will be

Re: modprobe dmasound_pmac locks ibook2

2002-05-17 Thread Christoph Borsbach
Hi, On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 05:14, Chris Tillman wrote: > > Is it the same with 2.4.18 (that's what we're putting in now)? > No, with a 2.4.18-newpmac kernel it works fine on my iBook2 (baught April 2002). I had some problems with recent Ben0 Kernels (but thats another thing) Just fyi, Chris --

Re: PowerPC desktop -- asking for trouble?

2005-01-13 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:04:14PM -0200, Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > You are right, but yet one can barely function nowadays without > proprietary Flash and Java, and these aren't yet quite there for the > PowerPC yet. At least Java has some promise, but as far as Flash

Re: Massiv kernel crashes on ibook/G4 1.33 GHz

2005-03-04 Thread Christoph Ewering
run a memtester for linux or MacOS X. Sometimes after a run (1-2 Days) these programs find some defective RAM. At the moment we run a memtester on a G4/400 for 5 days now and no problems found -- but my customer has big problems with this computer :-( Bye, Christoph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Is it possible to run a tv card?

2005-03-04 Thread Christoph Ewering
just freezes with my DVB card when I want to get the video on my monitor. Look into the mail archive for somethings about DVB and Formac Pro TV Bye, Christoph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Massiv kernel crashes on ibook/G4 1.33 GHz

2005-03-07 Thread Christoph Ewering
? Looks like it is becoming a never ending story. BTW. Thanks for your work at the linux kernel. My linux machine went to my customer when his machine starts to panic. :-( Bye, Christoph -- Dipl. Ing. Christoph Ewering C & E Mediensysteme GmbH Systemhaus für die Medienbranche Mersinwe

PowerMac floppy support is broken in 2.6.11.5

2005-03-24 Thread Christoph Ewering
x27; drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x71c28): In function `release_drive': : undefined reference to `save_flags' drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x71c2c): In function `release_drive': : undefined reference to `cli' drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x71c44): In function `release_drive': : undefin

Re: 2.6.12-rc3 cpufreq compile error on ppc32

2005-04-29 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 10:20:39PM +0200, Colin Leroy wrote: > > > One of Ben's patches ("ppc32: Fix cpufreq problems") went in 2.6.12- > > > rc3, but it depended on another patch that's still in -mm only: > > > add-suspend-method-to-cpufreq-core.patch > > > > > > In addition to this, there's a t

Re: grub 2?

2005-05-21 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 05:30:19PM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote: > I see that the HURD wiki talks about grub 2, and its powerpc support. Has > anyone tried it on ppc yet? Might be nice to have an alternative to > yaboot :) Given how crappy is grub is on i386 I'd avoid in on other platforms at any

Re: kernel 2.6 difference between g4 and powerpc kernel

2004-06-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 08:33:31PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > There is some confusion here, there are currently only 4 kernel images, > in both normal and smp flavor, powerpc for all powerpc processors from > early 601 to the latest g4, power3 for the ibm power3 boxes, and > power4/g5 for the powe

Re: "Permissions on the file /dev/pmu are broken"

2004-06-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 12:40:58AM +0200, Carlos Perell? Mar?n wrote: > I don't think the error message should be changed, it says just what > happens, if you want to control the backlight of your computer, you need > write access to /dev/pmu that's all. The message _is_ broken. A device file usi

Re: kernel 2.6 difference between g4 and powerpc kernel

2004-06-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 11:44:40AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Christoph Hellwig writes: > > > btw, do we really need the power3 vs power4 split? I know the ppc64 > > folks only need split kernels for iseries vs pseries and g5, > > I thought PPC_IS

Re: Hauppage Nexus DVB-S PCI card in PowerMac 8600

2004-06-03 Thread Christoph Ewering
I ran for some time a Siemens DVB-C card with VDR on my beige G3 and everything was fine. Bye, Christoph Am 02.06.2004 um 04:09 schrieb Matthew Reath: I was just wondering if it is possible to use a Hauppage DVB-S card with Debian Linux on a powermac. I know you can't use a standard PC

Re: AmigaONE && Debian (unstable?)

2004-06-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:51:43AM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote: > The firmware is U-Boot, so the kernel needs a bit of patching. Most of > the guys working on the Linux kernel got tied up in writing stuff for > AmigaOS4. It seems to me that unless one happens to be IBM or one of the > other

Re: AmigaONE && Debian (unstable?)

2004-06-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:35:54PM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >>Which is why it would help to be IBM or one of the other big players. > >>Does it look like I'm shitting hardware? ;-) > > > > > >That has nothing to do with big players at all. > > Are you sa

Re: AmigaONE && Debian (unstable?)

2004-06-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:16:40PM +0200, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote: > I think you're reading a bit much into a small joke which even had a > smiled on it. > > A "significant" amount of people have already written to tell me that if > they had been given boards for free it would have happened. N

Re: AmigaONE && Debian (unstable?)

2004-06-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:04:52PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > I cannot BELIEVE how silly this discussion got, and so quickly as well. > > It's likely to be me, so I'll just shut the fuck up now. Good bye. > > Although IBM has a lot of money they haven&#

quik 2.0 killed my beige G3

2004-07-02 Thread Christoph Ewering
I do not know which blocks to copy. Bye, Christoph -- Dipl. Ing. Christoph Ewering C & E Mediensysteme GmbH Autorisierter Apple Händler und Systemhaus in Paderborn Hatzfelder Str. 68F Tel.: 05254 - 80 68 66 33104 Paderborn Fax.: 05254 - 80 68 64 [E

Re: 2.4 & 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

2004-07-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> So, i am seriously considering dropping all 2.4 powerpc kernels, and > going with 2.6 only, and would like to get feedback both from > debian-kernel as well as debian-powerpc, feedback i didn't get in the > past. I'd be in favour of that. > Ah, and i am seriously considering dropping support fo

Re: 2.4 & 2.6 kernels, should sarge be 2.6 only at least for powerpc ?

2004-07-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 10:57:00PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Yeah, in the meantime, i need to release a 2.4.26 kernel as there are > people clamoring for it, since the 2.4.25 has some security holes whose > fixes where not backported, and 2.6 is not considered stable by some > users yet (and if y

Re: quik 2.0 killed my beige G3

2004-07-08 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hello Jens! Am 03.07.2004 um 12:10 schrieb Jens Schmalzing: Hi, Christoph Ewering writes: I was running "testing" on my beige G3 with kernel 2.6.6. I used a little Partition with MacOS 9.1 on it to boot with BootX into Linux. [...] At the next reboot my beige G3 could not

Re: quik 2.0 killed my beige G3

2004-07-08 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hello Sebastian! Thanks for your help, but your advise works with NewWorld-Mac only, "beige G3" are OldWorld-Macs. OldWorld-Macs can not use yaboot. AFAIK the oldworld-macs need the Apple-ROMs to initialize the hardware before the kernel can start the real job. Bye, thanks, Chr

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:19:24AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > The 20040707 image does seem to fix this specific problem, and it now > gets into the installer. It still locks up later while handling the > disks, in the same approximate spot that it does when using the 2.4 > kernel. I'll see what I c

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-10 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 12:56:06PM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > It seems bad to me for one of these scripts to be so sure that it can > load a particular module, when the rest of the install is pretty > careful to allow a user in expert mode to override module selection. > Of course, loading a module

Re: quik 2.0 killed my beige G3

2004-07-12 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hi Jens! Am 12.07.2004 um 15:22 schrieb Jens Schmalzing: Hi, Christoph Ewering writes: The partition is not mounted when I boot from a MacOS CD. But when I put the disk into an firewire-case I can mount this partition under MacOS X. This usually means that the driver partitions on the

Re: quik 2.0 killed my beige G3

2004-07-13 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hi Jens! Am 13.07.2004 um 00:29 schrieb Christoph Ewering: Hi Jens! Am 12.07.2004 um 15:22 schrieb Jens Schmalzing: Hi, Christoph Ewering writes: The partition is not mounted when I boot from a MacOS CD. But when I put the disk into an firewire-case I can mount this partition under

kernel source for PPC? rsync?

2004-07-13 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hello! Could someone tell where to get current PPC-kernel-sources? At the moment I am using www.kernel.org. Some rsync-sources? Bye, Christoph -- Dipl. Ing. Christoph Ewering C & E Mediensysteme GmbH Autorisierter Apple Händler und Systemhaus in Paderborn Hatzfelder Str. 68F

Re: quik 2.0 killed my beige G3

2004-07-14 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hello Jens! Am 13.07.2004 um 12:58 schrieb Jens Schmalzing: Hi, Christoph Ewering writes: The MacOS-Partition containing BootX and the kernel is mounted when I boot from MacOS 9, I can select this partition as boot-partition -- BUT my beige G3 will not boot from this partition! What does

Re: quik 2.0 killed my beige G3

2004-07-14 Thread Christoph Ewering
Hi, Am 14.07.2004 um 13:01 schrieb Jens Schmalzing: Hi, Christoph Ewering writes: Hope you can help me. I'm afraid I've reached my wits' end. The only solution I can think of is to start with a fresh disk and copy the Mac OS and Linux partitions over. /dev/hda6

Re: AmigaONE && Debian (unstable?)

2004-08-02 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 07:07:14PM +1000, Ross Vumbaca wrote: > if you want a working floppy drive. The "PPC" version of floppy.h seemed > to be rather Apple specific, and dumped all the necessary stuff to use > PC floppy controllers without DMA (there is a problem using the ISA DMA > with the f

Re: alternative airport extreme card

2004-08-22 Thread Christoph Borsbach
Hi, George Wright wrote: Does an alternative airport extreme card exist for ibook/PowerBook G4 exist ? Well, the card claims to be a mini-pci but it looks nothing like any standard mini-pci card. I think the Apple Airport Extreme card is the only card you can put into that slot. Correct -

kernel-panics: vdr and video-buf, something special on ppc?

2004-08-31 Thread Christoph Ewering
- i am not a programmer) Bye, Christoph -- Dipl. Ing. Christoph Ewering C & E Mediensysteme GmbH Autorisierter Apple Händler und Systemhaus in Paderborn Hatzfelder Str. 68F Tel.: 05254 - 80 68 66 33104 Paderborn Fax.: 05254 - 80 68 64 [EMAIL PROTE

Sound on new Powerbook

2004-09-02 Thread Christoph Skorepa
and kde working ? thanks for your help christoph

Re: libsensors keywest configuration

2004-09-04 Thread Christoph Hellwig
inux/kernel/v2.6/testing/cset/[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]|ChangeSet|20040826103338|27339.txt > > http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/cset/ > > > > http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.9-rc1 > > Christoph, > > does this sound like something we would like to backport to 2.6.8 ? Yes.

Re: libsensors keywest configuration

2004-09-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 04:06:35PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:29:05AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:32:19PM +0200, ncrfgs wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 10:50:42AM +0200, Luca Bigliardi - shammash wrote: >

Re: Debian on RS/6000 E30

2004-09-12 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 12:53:41PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 11:45:41AM +0100, Leigh Brown wrote: > > Sven Luther said: > > > On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 09:45:51PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > > Notice that it should go in the common kernel-source patches instead, > > >

Re: 2.6.8 kernel issues

2004-09-17 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 10:23:18PM -0400, Bradley M Alexander wrote: > Thanks to everybody who posted in response to my earlier question about > resizing partitions. It was successful and my Linux partition has breathing > room again. :) > > Once I got the partition freed up, I decided to use LV

Re: 2.6.8 kernel issues

2004-09-17 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 07:17:47AM -0400, Bradley M Alexander wrote: > On Friday 17 September 2004 02:42, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > Is this a self-build kernel or a kernel-image from Debian? It looks > > like you're missing a framebuffer driver, what does "

Re: Sarge on OldWorld Mac - No root device

2004-09-28 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 04:40:16PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Rick Thomas wrote: > > I've submitted several bug reports on this topic. The developers > > know about it, and may fix it sometime. It's not as easy to fix as > > it sounds, because the mesh controller is not on the regular PCI > > b

incompatible unaligned.h between x86 and ppc - kernel-hackers verify please

2004-11-03 Thread Christoph Ewering
nel-source 2.6.8.1 from kernel.org. So could the kernel-hackers verify this and correct me or asm-ppc/unaligned.h, please. ;-) Bye, thanks, Christoph -- Dipl. Ing. Christoph Ewering C & E Mediensysteme GmbH Autorisierter Apple Händler und Systemhaus in Paderborn Hatzfelder Str. 68F

Re: incompatible unaligned.h between x86 and ppc - kernel-hackers verify please

2004-11-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 09:56:18AM +0100, Christoph Ewering wrote: > Hello List, hello Klaus, hello Benjamin! > > At the moment I am fighting with an error on ppc when I want to compile > the new vdr-1.3.14 from Klaus Schmidinger. > > vdr uses unaligned.h and it stops compi

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