Re: how to write a pipe "|" ?

2016-11-01 Thread Luke
I don't know if this is what you want to do, but you can add a key to the layout. I'm sorry, I've followed a tutorial but now I don't remember how to add a key. The alternative is a SSH session with a keyboard that have the pipe.

Kworker

2017-02-01 Thread Luke
How to do the same on PPC based machine? http://askubuntu.com/questions/176565/why-does-kworker-cpu-usage-get-so-high#answer-233947 I'm running Debian 8.7 - 3.16.0-4-powerpc on PowerBook3,1 G3 PISMO. Thanks.

Re: Newbie trying to install Debian PPC into an old 15" PowerBook G4...

2017-03-02 Thread Luke
Alternatively you can create a disk image without free space, from your partition with your current version of OSX. After that partitioning the disk and then resto re with the .dmg previously created in the new resized partition. Il 02/mar/2017 06:17 PM, "Bertrand Dekoninck" ha scritto: > > Le 2

Re: Problems installing Debian on Powerbooks

2017-03-07 Thread Luke
I had a problem similar to yours, solved by changing to another HD with Apple firmware. Il 07/mar/2017 09:15 AM, "Nicholas Dal Porto" ha scritto: > Hi guys, > > I've spent the last few days attempting to install Debian on some old > Powerbooks I have laying around. They're all invariably failing

Re: Problems installing Debian on Powerbooks

2017-03-07 Thread Luke
Il 07/mar/2017 09:23 AM, "John Paul Adrian Glaubitz" < glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> ha scritto: On 03/07/2017 08:50 AM, Nicholas Dal Porto wrote: > I've tried at least 25 different ISO files. Which ones did you try? Did you try known good ones like Jessie or even Wheezy ISOs? Adrian -- .''`.

Re: What are you guys running on your PowerBook G4's Debian PPC?

2017-03-12 Thread Luke
Il 08/mar/2017 10:54 PM, "PhiLLip Pi" ha scritto: Server? Workstation? Old school text stuff? Just curious. I am trying to see what I can use my slow PowerBook G4 with 512 MB of RAM to do. I'm running Debian Jessie on G3 Pismo Power Book, like mini server, without graphic environment, for remot

Re: Problems installing Jessie to Powerbook from USB Stick

2017-05-17 Thread Luke
Hi Carlos, have you tried to write the complete OF boot path to the USB key? Also on my PowerBook the shortcut wont run. Bye. Il 17/mag/2017 08:45 PM, "Carlos" ha scritto: But I don’t find the USB-Stick. I also tried this command: „boot ud:,\\:tbxi“ as described there: http://ben-collins.blogs

Re: [PATCH]: Add support for Apple Power Mac

2020-05-17 Thread Luke
Hi all, I've try the 2020-04-19 image but I still have a black screen of death. With default installation, the partitioning create a boot partition of 128Mb, but grub fail to install. So I create it manually of 256Mb and it go well. Gnome Desktop environment don't install because there's some block

kernel radeonfb with iBook2 800mhz

2002-11-26 Thread Luke Tokheim
correctly at boot but then the screen is garbled, readable, but garbled. (this is without X, but X has the same problem) Thanks for your time, I hope someone has some suggestions. -Luke

Speed tips for 2001 iBook anyone?

2005-07-27 Thread Luke Miller
ook runs an ATI graphics card, could this be part of the problem? Any general tips would also be welcomed, Luke

Re: libre firmware and Raptor Computing devices?

2022-08-23 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wednesday, August 24, 2022, Paul Wise wrote: > Hi all, > > On the open firmware Debian wiki page, I note that Raptor Computing > ppc64el devices have libre Ethernet firmware but that this firmware is > not yet available in Debian. I read elsewhere that Raptor devices also > have a libre boot fi

Re: libre firmware and Raptor Computing devices?

2022-08-24 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 12:10 PM Paul Wise wrote: > > Project Ortega is the libre firmware for the BCM5719. Update through fwupd > > Personally I very much dislike fwupd/LVFS as a place to distribute > firmware from, since it is designed for proprietary vendor firmware. and critically relies on

Tracking a bug on POWER10

2023-03-09 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thursday, March 9, 2023, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hi there, > > I vaguely remember someone mentioning a service where one could ssh > onto ppc64el machines. university of oregon's "hub" via the OpenPOWER Foundation. if that's of interest i can introduce you to erik and sameer, you will need

Re: Tracking a bug on POWER10

2023-03-09 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Friday, March 10, 2023, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, 2023-03-09 at 11:05 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > >> I vaguely remember someone mentioning a service where one could ssh >> onto ppc64el machines. I need access to a POWER10 machine to track a >> bug. platti.d.o is POWER8 AFAIK. > > This pa

Re: Is a Raptor Blackbird (or other Power machine) a good general-purpose desktop?

2023-03-21 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 9:32 PM Linux User #330250 wrote: > I was looking at those projects in the past, but there are two problems: > 1. They are way too expensive in terms of a performance to price ratio. > 2. They are

Re: Is a Raptor Blackbird (or other Power machine) a good general-purpose desktop?

2023-03-22 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wednesday, March 22, 2023, Linux User #330250 wrote: > On the other hand, I don't really see performant and cheap (for desktop > systems) systems on the market that aren't mainstream x86 (Intel and > AMD). Letting those now older alternatives go (that were mostly servers > to begin with) is pr

Re: Is a Raptor Blackbird (or other Power machine) a good general-purpose desktop?

2023-03-23 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thursday, March 23, 2023, Linux User #330250 wrote: > I also see BE disappearing from lots and lots of software. My assumption > is that it simply isn't viable anymore, as most users and developers > have moved on. except in Japan, India, China, and anywhere else in the world where the main C

Draft SVP64 and SFFS OpenPOWER Foundation ISA Working Group RFCs

2023-04-10 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
(please distribute widely to all FOSSHW Power-related mailing lists, but reply to libre-soc-isa - many many thanks for patience and understanding) the Libre-SOC Project's NLnet-funded work of the past three years has reached the point where it's time to submit RFCs to the OpenPOWER Foundation ISA

Re: Xorg segfaults on iMac G3 with Rage 128 Pro

2023-04-18 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tuesday, April 18, 2023, Ben Westover wrote: > Hello, > > On 4/16/23 10:18 PM, Paul Wise wrote: >> >> There is also the case where you launch Xorg via gdb and then run it. >> >> $ gdb `which Xorg` >> (gdb) run >> (gdb) bt full > > Perfect! I was able to get a full backtrace, which i

Re: Xorg segfaults on iMac G3 with Rage 128 Pro

2023-05-08 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Monday, May 8, 2023, Ben Westover wrote: > Is this something I can fix, or does modern Xorg just need more VRAM? try 640x480 and/or 16bpp. l. -- --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68

Re: Crowdfunding a small but important powerpc bugfix

2023-10-11 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wednesday, October 11, 2023, Stan Johnson wrote: > Hello, > > Please post a link that indicates whether the GHC Haskell Compiler > license is compatible with the GPL. I haven't been able to find anything > online regarding compatibility. I would be interested in any license > issues before lear

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concernsj

2018-06-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 8:16 AM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 08:03:00PM +, Niels Thykier wrote: >> armel/armhf: >> >> >> * Undesirable to keep the hardware running beyond 2020. armhf VM >>support uncertain. (DSA) >>- Source: [DSA Sprint

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns

2018-06-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 9:03 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: > armel/armhf: > > > * Undesirable to keep the hardware running beyond 2020. armhf VM >support uncertain. (DSA) >- Source: [DSA Sprint report] [other affected 32-bit architectures removed but still relevant] ... i'm

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns

2018-06-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 10:35 AM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: >> what is the reason why that package is not moving forward? > > I assume you're referring to the dpkg upload that's in proposed-updates > waiting for the point

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns

2018-06-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 12:23 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: >> i don't know: i'm an outsider who doesn't have the information in >> short-term memory, which is why i cc'd the debian-riscv team as they >> have current facts and knowledge foremost in their minds. which is >> why i included them. > >

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concernsj

2018-06-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 12:06 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 06/29/2018 10:41 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 8:16 AM, Uwe Kleine-König >> wrote: >> >>>> In short, the hardware (development boards) we're current

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns

2018-06-29 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > Everyone, please avoid followups to debian-po...@lists.debian.org. > Unless something is relevant to *all* architectures (hint: discussion of > riscv or arm issues don't qualify), keep replies to the appropriate > port-specific mailing lis

enabling/disabling AltiVec in Firefox and derived browsers (ArcticFox)

2021-02-28 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Monday, March 1, 2021, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > A quick solution would to have this configure as a convenience, but have a way to pass an --enable-altivec and -disable-altivec (or with/without?) parameter to configure. EABI v2.0 rather unfortunately, despite it being optional in the OpenPOWE

Re: enabling/disabling AltiVec in Firefox and derived browsers (ArcticFox)

2021-03-01 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 8:39 AM Gabriel Paubert wrote: > Beware that VSX is not Altivec. Altivec was called VMX by IBM and > VSX is a superset of Altivec (IIRC). > > G4 and G5 do not have VSX. apologies i tend to lump th

enabling/disabling AltiVec in Firefox and derived browsers (ArcticFox)

2021-03-01 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Monday, March 1, 2021, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 12:22:22PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> --- >> crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 >> >> On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 8:39 AM Gabriel Paubert wro

SIMD not present in Libre/Open hardware OpenPOWER implementations [was Re: enabling/disabling AltiVec in Firefox and derived browsers (ArcticFox)]

2021-03-02 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
changing subject, for reference / background: * Paul Mackerras is working on an experimental branch to add VSX https://github.com/paulusmack/microwatt/blob/vecvsx/decode1.vhdl he was experimenting to see what was needed to get Fedora booting. the internal design is a Finite State Machine. mult

Re: enabling/disabling AltiVec in Firefox and derived browsers (ArcticFox)

2021-03-02 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > actually the original point is even for PPC32, note just PPC64. The > configure check added by Adrian in Firefox checks if the compiler > accepts -maltivec and just enables it in the build. > However, this assumption is not correct and causes i

Re: enabling/disabling AltiVec in Firefox and derived browsers (ArcticFox)

2021-03-03 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > > On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > >> actually the original point is even for PPC32, note just PPC64. The >> configure check added by Adrian in Firefox checks if the compiler >&

Re: enabling/disabling AltiVec in Firefox and derived browsers (ArcticFox)

2021-03-06 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Saturday, March 6, 2021, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi Luke, > > > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> >> just to confirm: that's definitely "setting machine to capabilities that the machine doesn't have, then requesting that feature and gcc 10 says &

Re: VLC on G5 crash : illegal instruction

2021-03-07 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sunday, March 7, 2021, Riccardo Mottola wrote:. > > > the issue is most probably in libpcre2 or Qt5Core > > #0 0x7fffe9c5fa30 in ?? () > #1 0x702c406c in ?? () from /usr/lib/powerpc64-linux-gnu/l > ibpcre2-16.so.0 https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2/code/trunk/src/sljit/sljitNativePPC_c

Re: VLC on G5 crash : illegal instruction

2021-03-08 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 8:50 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On 3/8/21 9:38 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > >> a cursory scan shows no evidence of the use of VSX there. > > > > If needed... I believe it is possible to disable PCRE2's JIT at configure > > time. > > We certainly shouldn't disabl

Re: VLC on G5 crash : illegal instruction

2021-03-14 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 7:34 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > You probably need to go to frame 1 ('f 1' under gdb) and disassemble > ('disass .' or 'disass' followed by a bunch of pages). That will show > the offending instruc

Fwd: Call for Proposals: DebConf21, Online

2021-05-23 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
hi folks quick question, would it be of interest to hear of the plans in Libre-SOC to do an auto-generated (compiled) emulator of VSX instructions, for use in the linux kernel? if you are familiar with paul mackerras's work lib/powerpc/sstep.c which emulates Load-Quad and others from an illegal in

Re: Altivec in baseline for ppc64?

2021-07-15 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On 7/13/21, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I wasn't really a fan of that change but my stance is that we should use > AltiVec > in packages where it makes sense as the majority of the ppc64 port users > will > have a machine that suppport AltiVec. please *do not* do this. we are designing

Re: Altivec in baseline for ppc64?

2021-07-16 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 2:55 PM Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Some years ago I tried to get such runtime detection added for vlc. > Upstream was certainly far from helpful and just about hostile to the > idea of adding runti

Re: Altivec in baseline for ppc64?

2021-07-17 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 12:09 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On 7/16/21 12:59 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > Does it have to be one or the other? Can't you have both? > > Well, you could have runtime detection lik

Re: Altivec in baseline for ppc64?

2021-07-18 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 4:17 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I never really took notice that IBM captured the projects. But with > your lens it sounds about right. > > ("Captured", as in regulatory capture as seen in the US.

Re: Experiences on using zram with ARM?

2011-07-18 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
zram... there actually exists something called "Z-Ram", it was bought by one of the major companies: it's actually 3D (stacked) ram and thus you get a significantly higher memory density. thus, the use of the name "zram" caused some confusion, that you had access to this quite rare type of RAM mem

Re: Bug#399608: fixed in sysvinit 2.88dsf-59.1

2015-05-18 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > Hello Adrian! > > Thanks for raising awareness about this issue. If there's anything > I can do to help please tell me. That the new util-linux version hasn't > been built yet sounds like it can't be avoided as it was just uploaded > and