specific patches Debian has applied to
utils-linux to resolve this issue. Thanks in advance.
Jack Howarth
Hello,
Is anyone else seeing new problems with the most current
benh kernels? Here the changes in the last week have broken
the ability to use dri/agp on a PowerMac G4 sawtooth with 1st
generation Uninorth motherboard. The glxgears program freezes
the X server and the console completely which h
Egidio,
At least last night, unless Ben has fixed it in the meanwhile,
there are two sets of changes you have to make to the tree for it
to compile. The error you saw needs the fix...
--- init/do_mounts.c.orgWed Jun 26 05:48:37 2002
+++ init/do_mounts.cWed Jun 26 05:49:15 2002
@@ -
Ceaserina,
You have to manually build the alsa-modules for 0.9 and install
them yourself. I don't know if you are running woody or sid but
in either case you should definitely update all of your alsa packages
to the sid version since it is much newer. You will also need
the kernel source for the
Ceaserina,
Oh, a couple other notes. If you have the instructions in the
previous e-mail implemented correctly you should see the following
modules loaded at boot time.
snd-seq-oss30720 0 (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event 3888 0 [snd-seq-oss]
snd-seq45192 2 [sn
Vincent,
You can download debian ppc binaries for vlc 0.4.2 from...
/pub/videolan/vlc/0.4.2/deb on ftp.videolan.org
Unless they modified the original deb packaging I'm not sure how
the autobuilders will ever be able to build those packages. It
appears they expect a prebuilt ffmpeg-20020707 di
The locales dependencies are broken at the moment because of a bug
(on all arches) in the glibc build against fileutils 4.1.9 in unstable.
This has finally caught up with the autobuilders (since they randomly
had either the woody or sid fileutils installed when building glibc).
For now you could
Hello,
Is anyone successfully running egoboo on debian ppc sid?
I find that on my machine I get a black screen except for the
character displays (i.e. no dungeon is drawn). Unfortunately
the program doesn't send out any debug info when run. Thanks
in advance for any help.
Jack
Roland,
I would suspect that the kernel-patch-benh is rather old at this
point. It is simplier to just rsync the latest benh tree (currently
at 2.4.19rc3) with...
mkdir linux-2.4-benh
cd linux-2.4-benh
rsync -avz --delete rsync.penguinppc.org::linux-2.4-benh .
...then if you have a previous .c
Hello,
Could we have as many folks here as possible give the new openoffice.org
1.0.1-1 build on...
http://openoffice.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice
...a try. You should be able to get it, running on debian ppc sid,
by adding...
deb http://openoffice.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice unstable main contr
A.J.,
Thanks for testing the 1.0.1-3 release. I guess I should have
posted something here yesterday. I found problem with 1.0.1-3 was
a misplaced arch-specific registry file incorrectly packaged in the
non-arch debian package for openoffice.org. That flaw was fixed in
1.0.1-3.
This problem installing locales-2.2.5-12 is due to
a failure in the last build of glibc on powerpc. The
origin of that problem was that a flaw in the glibc
debian build scripts was being tickled by the new stricter
fileutils in unstable. Other arches happened not to have the
unstable version o
egidio,
You can simply download the stock tarballs for kde 3.0.2 from
the ftp.kde.org web site and build them. They all contain debian
subdirs. The core set have fully updated debian directories. Some
of the optional packages may have a slightly older debian directory
that potentially could nee
Vinai,
No. From what I have read the code the worm executes is i386
specific.
Jack
Christophe,
The current gnome-vfs2 build on ppc is fubar'd. If you
do an apt-get source and rebuild it locally, once gnome-vfs2
is re-installed using a local build it should work fine. It
appears to be a reoccurring problem with gnome-vfs2 that modules
are not built. I suspect some Build-Depends
Christophe,
The missing menus are normally a sign of modules not being built
in gnome-vfs2. The current build of gnome-vfs2 on ppc is definitely
broken with some missing modules but no one has done binary only
rebuild on voltaire. Follow through the thread on...
http://lists.debian.org/debian
The correct solution to any esd problems with mozilla is to
add...
MOZILLA_DSP=none
to /etc/mozilla/mozillarc.
Jack
Jan,
Two things. You may need to deinstall mozilla before you rebuild
it as I'm not sure how tight that buildroot is. Second is to make
sure you get the latest version of the mozilla gcc 3.1/3.2 patch
that Franz made. I put a copy of it in a debian bug report against
mozilla-snapshot...
http://
Well I'm not sure which bug this thread refers to but I did notice
that the current console-tools package in debian ppc sid was having
fail conflicts which aborted its installation. The conflicts were with
binaries and man pages in kbd-compat. Doing a 'dpkg --force-all -i' on
the new console-too
Is anyone else on debian ppc sid seeing this? On my machine I
am finding that both the Print and Print Preview commands in gedit
are failing because it can't find any fonts. If I go into the
Preferences panel of gedit I also find that under Fonts the selections
are blank and if I click them to
Is anyone else seeing this with the alsa 0.9 in current debian ppc
sid? I find that I get...
alsactl
/usr/sbin/alsactl-0.9: error while loading shared libraries:
/usr/lib/libasound.so.2: R_PPC_REL24 relocation at 0x0ff92ff0 for symbol
`m_info_is_volatile' out of range
This occurs with
ii
Daniel,
I was wondering what you made of this. I noticed that
the libasound2_0.9.0rc6-1_powerpc.deb package had a
libasound.so.2.0.0 which caused alsactl to fail with the
error...
./alsactl: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libasound.so.2:
R_PPC_REL24 relocation at 0x0ff92ff0 f
Could someone familar with python give sparky a test on debian
i386 sid? On debian ppc sid the program segfaults on loading its
python module. The source for the program is available from...
http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/sparky/
as sparky-source-3.106.tar.gz. If you untar it in /usr/local/src
a
Sorry about the duplicate message. I get a bounce back from the
list server that seemed to indicate the first message was rejected
as spam because of the title. So I resent it with a modified title.
Jack
I believe I may have a clue as to why sparky is segfaulting in
when run as a python extension. The upstream maintainer is using
python 2.1.1 and tcl 8.3.4 so I built against our python 2.1.3 and
tck 8.3.3. However I just noticed that sid's python2.1 is in
fact built against tcl-8.4 now. Could t
Emil,
Actually it is probably something else. I had a user with YellowDog
Linux 2.3 try sparky against python 2.1.1 and tcl 8.3.3 and he segfaults
as well. Are you on i386 or ppc debian? If i386, I would be very interested
if sparky segfaults on that arch as well. It has been built on redhat
lin
Just in case anyone is interested, I have resolved the problems
of building a usable python version of sparky with debian ppc sid by
patching it to build under gcc 3.2.2. Interestingly the gcc 2.95.4
build segfaults but a gcc 3.2.2 build works fine. Since sparky uses
its own __tkinter.so with t
Fabrice,
I would be surprised if it was a gcc mismatch. I run the debian
sid xfree86 4.2.1 packages built with gcc 2.95.4 against benh kernels
built with gcc 3.2 all the time and have never had a problem with
dri loading, This is using agpgart under debian ppc. Are you sure you
haven't left bits
Michel,
Well what does Linux 2.5 currently have for building the DRM
support? I know 2.4 has a XFree86 4.0 legacy and a 4.1 drm (which
seems to be compatibe with XFree86 4.2). I would assume at
some point (XFree86 4.3?) there would be the need for a new
version of drm support in the kernel and
Michel,
Considering that the drm code has changed enough in the past
that we have two versions in Linux 2.4 (legacy XFree86 4.0 and
XFree86 4.1), why wouldn't the drm code fork yet again at some
point in the XFree86 cvs? If one were running Linux 2.5 and it
was sync'd to the drm code in XFree8
Is anyone else seeing this in current debian ppc sid? I am
finding that evolution gets removed whenever I do a dist-upgrade
that installs libgtkhtml1.1-3 which replaces libgtkhtml1.1-1.
It appears that evolution has a dependency on libgtkhtml1.1-1
that libgtkhtml1.1-3 doesn't satisfy. The only
The situation with java and sid is rather muddled at the
moment. There are several issues at play here...
1) since sid is now built against gcc-3.2, the jdk needs to be
built with the gcc-3.2 compiler. The j2se-1.3.1 debian packages
currently are not. These -02b based ones can NOT be used with
s
Martin-Éric,
The debian packages are identical to the previous -02b packages
with the exception that they were built with a -02d installer binary
for jdk 1.3.1 instead of the old -02b one. I have not problems running
java applets here in mozilla and galeon under debian sid. You did install
the
Rory,
Mozilla 1.3.1-1 in sid is busted for ppc. Try manually downloading
the packages for 1.3-5 which works fine.
Jack
Pander,
Unfortunately they have removed mozilla 1.3-5 from the debian archives.
You'll either have to wait for the next 1.3.1 package or build it locally
from the current debian mozilla 1.3.1-1 sources with debian/rules edited
to use -O on ppc instead of -O2.
Jack
Has anyone managed to get a usable build of evolution1.3
from debian experimental on ppc sid? I ask because while I
can manage to get it the latest evolution 1.3.92 built it
like the previous version seems unable to get mail from
a pop server that works fine under 1.2.4. I get...
camel-pop3-p
Grzesiek,
Evolution is currently broken because it is now linked against
both gtk/glib 1.2 and 2.0 due to the introduction of the new
gnome 2.0 based gnome-pilot.
Jack
Has anyone else noticed that xine has started to crash on
avi files that previously played fine a few weeks back? I now
get errors about block errors from the a52 module during playback.
Jack
Claas,
Actually it is a problem specific to xine-lib beta12.
I already was using PPC_RTC and switching to GEN_RTC
didn't help either. Regressing back to xine-lib beta11
eliminated the problem which looks like this for certain
avi files...
This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.9.21
(c
Mannequin,
It is more important to make sure you get a kernel from BenH
that has agpgart support enabled.
Jack
Michel,
Is that still true with the most current benh kernels? I thought he
had made some progress with agpgart stability on r128.
Jack
Is anyone else having problems with mozilla 0.9.4-1 or 0.9.4-3?
On my machine the mail component doesn't seem to be working
at all. While I can bring up the window for the mail component,
checking mailing and attempting to compose a new message doesn't
work. If I select those menu items or click
Is anyone seeing problems installing mozilla under the current
sid ppc? I installed 0.9.4-1 and 0.9.4-3 of mozilla with no problems
last week. However I now find that mozilla and mozilla-cvs fail to
install in the browser packages post installation script with a
segfault in regxcom (sp?). I noti
Also I can confirm that regressing glibc 2.2.4-2 back to
2.2.4-1 eliminates the problem...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-browser.postinst: line 29: 1724 Segmentation
fault regxpcom >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
...on ppc. I assume the same will be true for i386.
Jack
Can anyone else on debian ppc sid verify this. If you build and
install fakeroot 0.4.5-1 do you see the following when you execute
ldconfig?
> ldconfig: /usr/lib/libfakeroot.so.0.0.1 is not a shared object file (Type: 768
).
> ldconfig: /usr/lib/libfakeroot.so.0 is not a shared object file (Ty
Hello,
As it appears that MacOS X 10.1 will always be complaining about
volumes that don't have a mountable (from the MacOS) HFS or HFS+
partition I need to repartition my linux drive. Currently I have
a HFS bootstrap partition for yaboot but no Apple driver partitions
left. I suspect repartiti
Is anyone on debian ppc sid having printing problems with
usb printers? I seem to have developed some severe ones with
BenH's current kernels. I also now seem to have the same issue
with my older kernels so its hard to figure out. My Epson 740i
causes hotplug to load the usb/printer.o module and
Hello,
According to Andreas Jaeger he worked around this emacs issue
by...
---
For Emacs and XEmacs I added:
LDFLAGS="-znocombreloc"
Andreas
I am thinking we may have to change the build scripts for emacs21
on ppc to make sure it uses ld and not gcc for linking t
Laurent,
The conversion went fine for me. I built my own yaboot 1.3.5 debian
packages and after installing them used ybin to install the new yaboot
on my bootstrap partition. After I had built benh's 2.4.15-pre2 kernel
with ext3 support enabled I tested it by formatting a zip as ext3 and it
mount
I have noticed for quite some time that if use the
ide-floppy driver instead of ide-scsi to access my
Powermac's ide zip drive that the device is not created
unless media is in the drive at boot time. This is with
Debian sid and devfs in use. Does anyone else see this
same behavior? Also is t
Any idea why voltaire hasn't spit out a kdebase 2.2.2-x build on powerpc
yet? It seems like a while since 2.2.2 went into sid on the other arches.
Jack
Is anyone else seeing this problem with the current evolution 0.99.2-1
package on Debian ppc sid? On my machine I get an alert when start
evolution that says...
Error while 'Opening folder file:///home/howarth/evolution/local/message':
Could not load
/usr/lib/evolution/camel-providers/0.99.2/l
Hello,
Is anyone else having any problems runnng mozilla under debian ppc sid?
In the last few 0.9.6 releases I have seen a variety of launch problems.
Initially neither typing mozilla at a gnome console or using the mozilla
dock menu item would successfully start up mozilla-bin. I found that I
Hello,
I think some of you folks may run into this problem if you have
upgraded to MacOS 9.2.2 and have a slave drive with a bootstrap
HFS partition along with root and swap ext2/3 partitions on that drive.
It appears that starting with MacOS 9.2.2, the damn thing is deblessing
the bootstrap fi
James,
The amount of grief you'll get from upgrading MacOS X 10.0.4 to 10.1
depends on where your linux partitions are located. If you are sharing
a drive already between linux and MacOS X you'll be okay. However if like
me you have a separate linux only drive, 10.1 will cause you major grief.
Hello,
When I upgraded debian ppc sid this week on my
machine, I noticed that dexconf was being used
(incorrectly in 4.1.0-10) to upgrade my XF86Config-4
file. The resulting file that was created worked but
used incorrect screen settings for a mac monitor as
well as using a generic driver instea
Hi,
Could folks please test the evolution 1.0 packages in
incoming.debian.org and post a bug report if they find
a failure to load libcamellocal.so? I have already filed
a report and given the maintainer a tentative fix (libebex.a
is not built with -fPIC and is being linked into sharedlibs).
It
Michel,
I think they are confusing the DefaultDepth you
set in XF86Config-4 with bpp. I have...
DefaultDepth 24
with agpgart/dri loaded from benh's current kernel
and my XFree86 log shows...
(**) R128(0): Using AGP 2x mode
(--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
Hello,
Is anyone else seeing the following errors when trying to use
the Keyspan USA-28X with benh's current 2.4.17-rc1 kernel?
Dec 20 10:30:36 bogus kernel: usb.c: registered new driver serial
Dec 20 10:30:36 bogus kernel: usbserial.c: USB Serial Driver core v1.4
Dec 20 10:30:36 bogus kernel:
Hello,
Is anyone else on debian ppc sid seeing this?
./armagetron: error while loading shared libraries:
/usr/lib/libSDL_image-1.2.so.0: R_PPC_REL24 relocation at 0x0ffc48b4 for symbol
`LoadBMP_RW' out of range
It would seem that we have a -fPIC problem in the build of
libSDL_image-1.2.so.0
Is anyone else seeing crashes in vlc 0.2.92-4 when you play a
dvd on ppc? The previous 0.2.92-1 through -3 source packages wouldn't
build on my ppc machine because of some changes for MacOS X which
introduced a vand altivec asm instruction our devtools doesn't
support. Locally I had regressed th
Could someone else on debian-ppc sid please check if guppi is
working for them. I am told it is fine on intel. On my machine
I get a segfault in guppi-gnumeric if I try to graph anything in
gnumeric. Also if I do an apt-get source guppi, ./configure and make,
the demo crashes in the src dir in
Just a note that in case anyone is interested in helping
the guppi maintainer, Jon Trowbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, is looking
for some help. He posted this to the guppi-list mailing list.
---
* From: Jon Trowbridge
Kevin,
Is someone hammering the mozilla java maintainer about the
api issue? It's hard to believe that they are only a few months
away from declaring mozilla 1.0 and they still can't get the java
plugin api straight. Has Laurent looked at the cvs to see if the
java plugin api is fixed there? If
Is anyone else on debian powerpc having postinst script errors
when they try to install locales 2.2.5-1 from glibc 2.2.5-1?
> Setting up locales (2.2.5-1) ...
> Can't exec "/var/lib/dpkg/info/locales.config": Permission denied at
> /usr/share
/perl/5.6.1/IPC/Open3.pm line 159.
> open2: exec of
Eric,
I already submitted a bug report (141114) with the following patch...
---
diff -uNr alsa-driver-0.9+0beta12-1/alsa-kernel/ppc/awacs.c
alsa-driver-0.9+0beta12-1.new/alsa-kernel/ppc/awacs.c
--- alsa-driver-0.9+0beta
Hello,
Is anyone else on debian ppc sid with benh's kernel seeing
problems with their clocks? When I am booted up under MacOS X
I get the correct time showing whereas now that daylight savings
time has kicked in I get once how less than expected under
debian ppc sid. This is odd since the date
Okay. I have asked around and it appears that hwclock is mangled
on the ppc and will screw up on daylight savings time (giving times
that are one hour too low). Apparently this has been discussed before
and the problem is tickled by the use of localtime (with utc for the
clock being suggested
Michel,
On my debian sid machine running benh's current kernel and
alsa 0.9beta12 I was able to get audio working under alsa, esd and
oss. You have to select 3, the 16 bit signed big endian output from
the audio preference section for that to work. I notified Samuel
Hocevar and he is going to t
Hello,
I noticed tonight on debian-planet that suggestions are be
sought for the release notes for different ports of woody. I think
we need a few comments in the powerpc release notes with regard to
the clock situation on dual/triple boot Powermacs. It appears that
while the MacOS saves its
Michel,
Actually they just started mapping out a major rewrite of
the audio codec..
http://www.via.ecp.fr/ml/videolan/vlc-devel/200205/msg00022.html
...and all the followup messages in that thread.
Jack
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Matt,
You do realize that the maintainers mozilla-0.9.0rc1-1 packages for
intel showed up in incoming.debian.org today and were just built on
the ppc build machine...
http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=mozilla&ver=2%3A1%2Brc2-1&arch=powerpc&stamp=1021317669&file=log&as=raw
They should sho
In case anyone is interested, the most recent set of fixes that
Takashi Iwai put in the alsa cvs have now fixed the problems with
recording audio (on at least the screamer chipset). I can use the
following method to record...
a .asoundrc with...
pcm.copy {
type plug
slave {
pcm hw
}
I have finished some more testing of the audio input under current
alsa cvs on a PowerMac G4/AGP with the screamer chipset. It turns out
that the problem I was having with overly sensitive recording levels
was due to me having mic boost set to a non-zero value in alsamixer.
Once I set mic boost
Roland,
You can get very recent debian jdk 1.3.1 packages built by blackdown
at
http://people.debian.org/~gibreel/debian/pool/non-free/j/j2se1.3-powerpc/
and
http://people.debian.org/~gibreel/debian/pool/main/j/j2se-common/
You will minimally need to install j2se-common_1.1_all.deb and
j
Daniel,
Dmasound doesn't have functional sound input. However the
current alsa cvs (not 0.9.0rc1 but the next release that comes
out) should have working sound input on at least some machines.
I am using it here on my G4 sawtooth and it works fine for
sound recording under both the alsa interfa
For folks who didn't notice the messages in the debian-x mailing list,
ISHIKAWA Mutsumi has been creating debian XFree86 4.2.0 packages which
have a very nice merge of all the existing debian XFree86 4.1.0-17 patches
and scripts. Currently most of the arches including powerpc are built.
The anno
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