Need help with RC #396817

Hi, #396817 was reported back in November. Ian Lynagh, maintainer of GHC, and I both believe that the build was proceeding normally and that on the platform in question, it is not unreasonable to expect it to take quite a bit of time to compile that file. I have tried, in vain, to figure out som

Re: Need help with RC #396817

On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 10:55:48AM -0600, Carlo Segre wrote: > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, John Goerzen wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >#396817 was reported back in November. Ian Lynagh, maintainer of GHC, > >and I both believe that the build was proceeding normally and that on &

Re: A couple of questions

On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 02:29:27PM -0500, Patrick Klee wrote: > I am fully satisfied with my Debian iMac; However, I have a couple of > questions. I saw the post on DebianPlanet for XF86 debs, but I could seem to > download any for powerpc, that was two weeks ago. XF86 is included with Debian P

Re: Sound control on TiBook G4

On my Powerbook, I have found that the "master" control has no effect, but rather that separate "speaker" and "headphone" controls work. Whether or not that will be the same for you, I don't know. This is with kmix. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: date is 1934 on reboot

On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 07:24:51AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > Yes, usually the date/time not being kept is the first indication. > It's fairly easy to replace, and although not a household battery, > still fairly common. I believe there are firmware and/or OS bugs that cause the date to show up

KDE progress on Alpha & PowerPC

Hi, A nasty bug[1] in the qt headers has been keeping KDE 3 out of all arches other than i386. This is bad, because the Arch: all parts of KDE 3 are already there, so KDE apps were even more broken than on i386. The Qt libs have been fixed (mostly; see the discussion at the end of [1]), so I hav

Re: KDE progress on Alpha & PowerPC

Strangely, this compiled fine for me on powerpc. Has the X bug been reported somewhere already? On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 05:57:27PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mit, 2003-02-19 at 16:54, John Goerzen wrote: > > > > On Alpha, I've been seeing some weird relocation error

Infrared broken on tibook

Hi, I have a 400MHz tibook and I'm trying to get infrared going. On bootup, dmesg shows this when macserial.o is loaded: macserial: i2c-modem detected, id: 1 PowerMac Z8530 serial driver version 2.0 tty00 at 0xd9867020 (irq = 22) is a Z8530 ESCC (internal modem) tty01 at 0xd986e000 (irq = 23) is

Re: Of Mice and Modems

Any advice, hints, etc. would be most > appreciated. > Michael Missett > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Of Mice and Modems

Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, fax send craps out with a segfault, and efax won't dial unless I Stopping the segfault can be done by removing ewin from the VERB= setting in the conffile, oddly enough. > beat it into submission with -iX3 (I'm behind a PBS with no dialtones).

Re: Of Mice and Modems

Media 100 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks, everybody. John, where does it get told macserial.o? I apologize > if that's an ignorant question, but then... It's in benh's kernel available on rsync.penguinppc.org::linux-2.4-benh -- John

Re: Of Mice and Modems

Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The conffile is duplicated in /usr/bin/fax so I had to remove it there. I didn't have that particular problem. > Do you get the 'characters received while sending' message? I suspect flow > control between modem and kernel driver is broken (even swi

Sound problems

Built-in Sound driver edition 00.06 Write will use4 fragments of 32768 bytes as default Read will use4 fragments of 32768 bytes as default Any assistance appreciated! Thanks, John -- John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>GPG: 0x8A1D9A1Fwww.complete.org

Re: Sound problems

lso used KeyLargo. Does the Screamer > chip in it support little-endian samples? Does anyone know? It doesn't appear so; I hacked the kernel module so that it set the supports little endian var to 1, but it behaved even worse then (no sound plays at all, and arts gets all confused). -

Re: Sound problems

for awhile -- X entirely froze for about 20 seconds when I tried to play something with arts. No idea why, but suffice it to say I'm back to the way it was :-) -- John -- John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>GPG: 0x8A1D9A1Fwww.complete.org

Re: Sound problems

oesn't even excute on ppc, and aumix seems ineffectual as well. Hmmph. -- John -- John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>GPG: 0x8A1D9A1Fwww.complete.org

Re: Sound problems

apter i2c-1 smbus keywest i2c Non-I2C SMBus adapter alexanderwohl:/proc/bus# cat i2c-0 alexanderwohl:/proc/bus# cat i2c-1 > -- John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>GPG: 0x8A1D9A1Fwww.complete.org

Re: Sound problems

Derrik Pates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 11 Oct 2001, John Goerzen wrote: > > > Keywest device found: /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > i2c-core.o: adapter keywest i2c registered as adapter 0. > > Keywest device found: /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Sound problems

t > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net)|#linuxOS on OPN > -- John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>GPG: 0x8A1D9A1Fwww.complete.org

Re: Sound problems

Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2001-10-11 at 19:46, John Goerzen wrote: > > > > An update -- xmms works fine on my tibook, with one exception. It's > > volume control has zero effect. This might confirm my earlier > > thoughts about t

Re: Sound problems

isn't working on Screamer (or at > least not with Screamer on the G4 PowerBook)... > > Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School |#linuxOS on EFnet > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net) |#linuxOS on OPN > -- John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>GPG: 0x8A1D9A1Fwww.complete.org

Re: Sound problems

Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > aumix does start up but it doesn't work for me. However, that could > > just be due to my own incompetance wrt not knowing what to set or how > > to drive aumix. > > Tried to help you there... 'Vol' is the headphone out, 'Spkr' is the > speakers, the

Re: Sound problems

Derrik Pates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > KMix doesn't depend on aRts working. If it won't work, it's because it's > having problems talking to the mixer device. aumix starting, otoh, may or > may not be a good sign. Maybe install 'aumix-gtk' instead, so you have a > GUI available, and see if you

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

Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John, what kernel/machine do you have hwclock causing a hang? I'm not > sure off the top of my head what the status is in 2.2, but 2.4 has a > "proper" /dev/rtc driver. We should be using hwclock. Clock is an > awful ADB-bit-bashing hack that need

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

Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > you should not change it. this is caused by misconfigured kernels, on > powerpc the kernel *MUST* be compiled with CONFIG_PPC_RTC and NOT > CONFIG_RTC, the latter must be disabled, completely. And this is documented where? Why is CONFIG_RTC even offere

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

u should implement a telepathic kernel configuration interface so that everybody that reads the documentation knows the extra five paragraphs that appear nowhere? -- John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>GPG: 0x8A1D9A1Fwww.complete.org

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

. I've had terrible trouble with hwclock setting the CMOS clock to either 1903 or 1933. It seems to cause significant problems in this area. The clock program works fine. To those that would flame me: yes, my kernel is configured as recommended now. -- John Goerzen <[EMAIL PR

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

ram can't do anything. It's a G4 PowerBook (tibook). Kernel 2.4.13-pre3-ben0. I don't know what PPCBUG is. -- John > > -- > Tom Rini (TR1265) > http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ -- John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>GPG: 0x8A1D9A1Fwww.complete.org

[Stefan Westerfeld ] Re: Not entirely fixed. - big-endian arts issues

--- Begin Message --- Hi! On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 08:50:48PM -0700, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > Response on the arts patch you supplied. > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 09:04:51AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > > > There seems to have been progress, but it's not entire

Sound broken in KDE again

Sigh... I upgraded from 2.4.15-pre6-ben0 to 2.4.17-pre2-ben0 and now I get this from KDE on startup: Error while initializing the sound driver: SNDCTL_DSP_SETFMT failed - Invalid argument and sound in KDE is broken. Ideas? -- John

Airport "Tx error" problem

so tried an earlier ben0 kernel and got the same results. The Airport card works fine in MacOS X. Thanks, John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Airport "Tx error" problem

then bring it up statically for it to work again. I get the Tx errors whether it's configured statically or dynamically. Only when it is configured statically can I actually communicate. On Friday, March 8, 2002, at 10:08 AM, John Goerzen wrote: Hello, I have a problem with my Apple Ai

Delete key

Hi, I have a titanium Powerbook G4. This laptop does not have a key that sends "delete". It has a "delete" key, but Linux uses it as Backspace. Mozilla's mail/news reader wants to use a "delete" key for deleting a message. How can I fake a delete key? -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Enigmail for Linux/PowerPC

Hello, I have built IPC and Enigmail 0.49.1 (though it calls itself 0.49.2) for Linux/PowerPC systems for Mozilla 1.0RC1. It's at gopher://quux.org/1/devel/debian/mozilla or http://quux.org:70/devel/debian/mozilla. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: Test-DFS for PowerPC

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 06:40:12AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Bad, bad, bad. You are doing "boot cd:,\boot\yaboot" from OF, right? > > (its not \install as on regular debian cds). > > Yeah, directly copied from your other mail. I had trouble finding the > back-/ at first, as it seems to be inex

Re: Test-DFS for PowerPC

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:06:27PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > reimplementation using the discover database), as the debian-installer > does. Well, the purposes of DFS and of debian-installer are a little different. DFS explicitly does *not* do hardware autodetection on boot, though it prints out

Re: Test-DFS for PowerPC

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:49:02PM +0200, Robert Jordens wrote: > > DFS kernels also omit things that are not necessary for > > installation/repair work. For instance, sound and video4linux are > > completely disabled. The DFS kernels are here to give people a live, > > working system to use to r

Re: Test-DFS for PowerPC

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:58:02AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > dfsbuild is already very far along that path, with the sets of packages > (save for the base system) fully configurable, kernels configurable too, > etc. I should add that I view dfsbuild as a far more useful tool than t

Re: Test-DFS for PowerPC

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 06:13:56PM +0200, Robert Jordens wrote: > > [Mon, 07 Jun 2004] John Goerzen wrote: > > I should add that I view dfsbuild as a far more useful tool than the > > custom remastering hack that Knoppix uses. dfsbuild is scriptable and > > does its ent

Re: Test-DFS for PowerPC

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 01:07:01AM +0200, Robert Jordens wrote: > > No, the dfsbuild packages modified to build the powerpc version, (the > > source package of the -rj* versions) ? > > The Source is under Arch: > > dfsbuild--jordens--0.5 > > If

True state of support for 12" iBook G4

Hello, I am considering purchasing a new 12" iBook from Apple. The intent is to use this with Debian. However, in researching the state of support for this unit, I've found wildly contradictory information. So I'm wondering if someone could help clear this up for me. 1. Sleep mode. According

Re: True state of support for 12" iBook G4

On 2004-10-28, Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Hello, >> >> I am considering purchasing a new 12" iBook from Apple. The intent is >> to use this with Debian. However, in researching the state

Re: True state of support for 12" iBook G4

On 2004-10-28, Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > These days, people seem to recommend IBM X40 series, but I don't > know if they are cheap enough for you. Yep, nice series. Unfortunately, configured the same as