Re: Please test Firefox on ppc64

2023-09-03 Thread Michael Cree
On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 11:16:01PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Thu, 2023-08-31 at 23:06 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Can anyone running Debian on ppc64 please give it a try? > > It might crash because of this bug: > > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=

Re: setting up a sbuild chroot - which key?

2024-05-03 Thread Michael Cree
On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 11:58:57PM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > no hint for me which key to use? or if I miss one, where to get it? > > I have apt-get working, so I think I have the key. You looking for the key to install a chroot with powerpc or ppc64 from debian-ports? Assuming you have de

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-01-29 Thread Michael Cree
On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:45:10PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 1/28/19 12:34 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > I realize that this may require some programming, but would it be possible > > to have it ask a question early on (maybe at or before the beginning of > > partitioning) requestin

Re: installing NETINST 20190127 on Mac mini G4

2019-01-29 Thread Michael Cree
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 12:07:38AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > > On Jan 29, 2019, at 12:00 AM, Michael Cree wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:45:10PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >> On 1/28/19 12:34 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > >

Re: PPC64 Illegal Instruction

2019-03-03 Thread Michael Cree
On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 10:48:34PM +, Noah Wolfe wrote: > I just wanted to alert you that VLC, Audacity, Audacious, and > many other applications, do not start when launched from a > graphical menu, and immediately give out "Illegal instruction" > when launched via Terminal in PPC64, Confirme

Re: PPC64 Illegal Instruction

2019-03-04 Thread Michael Cree
On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 11:44:37AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > FWIW, the x265 bug originally reported by Noah should be fixed now. Don't be funny. The fix was applied to a newer version of x265 with an SO name change in experimental. It is absolutely uselss for us. Cheers Michael.

Re: PPC64 Illegal Instruction

2019-03-04 Thread Michael Cree
On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 06:53:56PM +, Noah Wolfe wrote: > @Michael, if I may ask (and if I have this right), if the fix was > simply a name change for a newer version, and effectively useless for > us, what was the point of changing it, and what can be done to fix our > issue? The baseline fix

Re: PPC64 Illegal Instruction

2019-03-04 Thread Michael Cree
On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 07:40:56PM +, Noah Wolfe wrote: > Ah, I see. So as I understand it, the fix was applied to upstream > experimental, and will in time make its way downstream to unstable. > That's why it would be closed as fixed, right? No, it is fixed in Debian experimental (i.e., not u

Re: PPC64 Illegal Instruction

2019-06-22 Thread Michael Cree
On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 11:05:09PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 3/4/19 9:59 PM, Noah Wolfe wrote: > > I see... I completely forgot about Buster's release schedule. > > > > Well, thank you for doing what you could. > I can upload a fixed version to the "unreleased" repository which

Re: PPC64 Illegal Instruction

2019-06-22 Thread Michael Cree
On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 11:31:17AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 6/22/19 11:04 AM, Michael Cree wrote: > > Adrian: would it be too much trouble to do the x265 fix and upload > > to PPC64/unreleased? > > I'd rather have a proper fix in the Debian package su

Re: Status of OpenGL on Mac

2019-09-19 Thread Michael Cree
On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 09:26:31PM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > Also, have you installed the firmware-amd-graphics package which contains > > firmware necessary for many AMD/ATI cards? If I remember correctly, the > > firmware is needed on the G4 laptops with a Radeon chipset. > > you got it

Re: Booting Debian 10 on powernv POWER9 machine

2019-10-17 Thread Michael Cree
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 02:58:37PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 02:57:12PM -0300, Gustavo Romero wrote: > > Sorry, I wrote my note super hastily and forgot to mention that I was > > wondering > > about BE specifically. Currently I see kernel 4.16 is used by the installe

Re: sid installer images with LXDE desktop environment

2019-11-03 Thread Michael Cree
On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 07:15:14PM +0100, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > The problem I am having is that very often when I want to install a sid LXDE > environment on one of my Macs, the netinstaller stops the installation > process as some package is missing from Debian-ports. For example, the last > co

Re: ofpath vs ofpathname vs grub-ofpathname

2020-04-16 Thread Michael Cree
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 06:07:29PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Done. Could someone perform tests on various Mac systems, please and > provide the output of "ofpathname /dev/sda1", "ofpathname /dev/sd2" > and - if available - "ofpathname /dev/sdb1" and provide the same output > from th

Re: ofpath vs ofpathname vs grub-ofpathname

2020-04-16 Thread Michael Cree
On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 01:03:49AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 4/17/20 12:39 AM, Michael Cree wrote: > > Machine (from /proc/cpuinfo): > > cpu : PPC970MP, altivec supported > > motherboard : PowerMac11,2 MacRISC4 Power Macintosh > > detected

Re: ofpath vs ofpathname vs grub-ofpathname

2020-04-17 Thread Michael Cree
On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 07:28:37AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 4/17/20 1:18 AM, Michael Cree wrote: > > There was no forgetting; only a misreading of the original message > > when skim-reading due to being in a hurry. You have a habbit of > > making negative

Re: More testing and pending updated installation images

2020-04-17 Thread Michael Cree
On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 10:59:15PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Currently, I'm interested in drives connected over IDE, SATA, SCSI > and USB. I have done anything for Firewire yet. I do have an external firewire hard drive which I can test, but will need to wait to at least next week

Re: ofpath vs ofpathname vs grub-ofpathname

2020-04-17 Thread Michael Cree
On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 09:48:47PM +, Dennis Clarke wrote: > On 4/17/20 9:18 PM, Michael Cree wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 07:28:37AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > On 4/17/20 1:18 AM, Michael Cree wrote: > > > > There was no forgetting; onl

Re: ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 and iBook G3's

2020-04-20 Thread Michael Cree
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:12:10PM -0400, Steve Burkhart wrote: > While we're on the topic of display driver problems, does anyone know why > the ATI Radeon 7500 found in many iBook G3 models is non functional with > Xorg? After installing the non free firmware, the screen just blinks, and > eventu

Re: iMac G3 support in Sid, Impossible?

2020-04-21 Thread Michael Cree
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 02:16:21PM +0200, Karl wrote: > > Am 16.04.2020 um 20:12 schrieb Lennart Sorensen > > : > > > > … that is no longer a release architecture (because > > apparently there wasn't enough people to maintain it at a high enough > > level) … > > -- > > Len Sorensen > > > > Sor

Re: iMac G3 support in Sid, Impossible?

2020-04-21 Thread Michael Cree
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 11:07:43PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 4/21/20 10:59 PM, Michael Cree wrote: > > My personal observations of the public discussions of the Debian > > Release and DSA teams is that serious concerns were raised about > > both the ap

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-20 Thread Michael Cree
FWIW, I am a porter of the Alpha architecture in the following ways: - run a buildd - kernel support - work with upstreams for toolchain support - general porting work including filing bugs and patches I doubt if I will continue that for the life cycle of Jessie given that many of the former

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

2015-05-18 Thread Michael Cree
[I've trimmed the CCes a bit.] On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 07:52:12PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > 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 m