Hi,
On 03/08/17 19:40, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
Again I don't disagree there, but since it's not a release
architecture, we could just move on to newer CPUs and change the
minimum specs -which would IMHO be a good thing, as it would lower the
number of supported platforms to a much small
Hi,
On 03/07/17 13:11, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
For the 4.8 series instead:
4.8.0-rc8-powerpc #1 Debian 4.8~rc8-1~exp1 (2016-09-26)
4.8.0-1 Debian 4.8.5 -> broken
Since I saw no other 4.7 series, I can see that the breakage happened
already in the 4.8 series:, somewhere between:
linux-im
Hi Konstantinos,
Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
I do not disagree on those points, but it's all a matter of resources.
We do not have the resources of testing on all those platforms, and I
personally know of no Linux powerpc developer that works on a non-
altivec system -except for embedded whic
Hi,
On 03/08/17 22:53, PhiLLip Pi wrote:
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 have an iBook G3 clamshell running Debian. I bought for it an AirPort,
new Battery and SSD drive instead of th
Hi,
Michel Dänzer wrote:
Can you provide the two /boot/config-4.8* files? If you attach them
> directly, maybe compress them e.g. with gzip to avoid running into
> mailing list size limits.
Or maybe just attach the output of diff -u for the two files.
attached (well, I forgot unified, but it
Hi,
Michel Dänzer wrote:
Can you provide the two /boot/config-4.8* files? If you attach them
> directly, maybe compress them e.g. with gzip to avoid running into
> mailing list size limits.
Or maybe just attach the output of diff -u for the two files.
attached (well, I forgot unified, but it
Hi Michel,
Michel Dänzer wrote:
Could CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=y be the issue?
Looks like that's it. According to the description of that option, it
prevents userspace from accessing I/O memory ranges which are already
claimed by a kernel driver. I.e. you have to choose whether you want to
let t
Hi Adrian,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Yes, you would need to file a bug report against src:linux.
I can do that if it turns out to fix your issue.
do yo have means of quickly generating a current kernel with that
options back off? I would test it.
In the meanwhile I tried to turn the
Hi,
Michel Dänzer wrote:
>[ 175.085] (EE) MACH64(0): Unable to map linear aperture. Invalid
>argument (22)
This could still be due to CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM, assuming offb
registers the linear VRAM aperture.
Note that I wouldn't count on the kernel package maintainers honing a
request to di
Hi,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Quoting:
>If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all
>io-memory regardless of whether a driver is actively using that range.
>Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access
>can be used by people debugging k
Hi Cascardo,
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
Can you boot the default Debian kernel (the one with
CONFIG_IO_STRICT_DEVMEM=y) with the following boot parameter and see if
it works for you?
iomem=relaxed
If that works, you are open to some "security" issues, but no need to
build a new kerne
Hi,
Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-grub/2015-03/msg00072.html
NewWorld are supposed to work. So the question is: does anyone still
has an OldWorld ?
I have a couple, although I am running urrently debian only on "new world".
I want to revive them though, some
Hi,
Linux User #330250 wrote:
To my understanding only NewWorld Macs are supported. But then, *all*
NewWorld Macs are, and those are "old" too by now. This should include
all Macs which are called "Power Mac" (before it was "Power
Macintosh"). And AFAIK the last "Power Macintosh G3" was one of
Hi,
Linux User #330250 wrote:
I use and used Debian on a G4 7450 CPU and I cannot see anything
unusual concerning the CPU or bus speed. Everything seems to be
initialized correctly, even thou with this new unstable build and
kernel 4.9 a function called check_features triggers a CPU trap. Bu
Hi,
after all this discussion about yaboot vs. grub and people having
reported issues on older macs, I can offer my take. I have a G3 PowerPC
iBook? I really do not want to reinstall everything, it takes time to
setup this machine.
I am using yaboot and everything works fine, very nice machi
Hi Frank,
Frank Scheiner wrote:
What Debian version have you installed currently?
it says buster/sid in debian_version
I am running kernel 4.13.0-1-powerpc and it is quite stable, I have no
particular issues with the filesystem, ATA, wireless or X11 (that is no
"new" issues, there are of co
Hi,
On 09/11/2017 17:41, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 11/09/2017 05:30 PM, Ondřej Surý wrote:
this has been already fixed by upstream:
https://github.com/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo/commit/02fa8f244e549edd3f3acf174b97157590d1b71e
Ah, nice. I didn't see that. Thanks for reporting th
Hi,
On 12/11/2017 00:03, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
I hope that you don't parse /proc/cpuinfo to know the capabilities of
your CPU. There is a better way to do this, namely use getauxval(3).
jpeg-turbo was doing exactly that and getauxval() was refused, read the
bug discussion.
Speaking of
Hi,
sleep has worked quite fine for me for years, I just discovered it
stopped working, it must be one of the latest updates.
My iBook goes correctly to sleep (e.g. closing lid or leaving it on for
a while without PSU) and he green led blinks.
At wake up however, I get no more console. Screen
Hi Mark,
Mark G.B. wrote:
Are you able to cold boot into firewire hard drive mode with CMD-T?
Not sure with those older iBooks.
After, you could proceed to extract/modify files on the iBook to
restore functionality. You would need a firewire to Thunderbolt or
firewire to usb, some such adapt
Hi,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
The issue is that sleep doesn't work anymore, more precisely, awaken
hangs! And it used to work very well. I suppse something in the kernel
broke, or some drivers or userland.
Yes, I can confirm this particular issue with my iBook G4.
Putting the laptop to
Hi,
On 08/14/18 11:29, Rogério Brito wrote:
Nice. I wish my coding skills weren't so old-school, or I could offer
help beyond just testing. It would be nice to see Quantum's speed and
efficiency (to the extent that it would be effective) on PPC
machines. This could possibly have a carry-ove
Hi,
On 08/14/2018 10:14 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 08/14/2018 09:54 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
there is a lot of good stuff, but also hold your breath. I am working on the
code to generalize his work so that it works on x86-32bit (64bit is currently
off-limits for the code, it
Hi all!
I took the time today and transitioned my iBook to the "new" sources,
that would be:
deb http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/ unstable main
deb http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/ unreleased main
I left out buildd for now.
SO I can check all your latest work and stay uptad
Hi all!
I extra bought another used iBook to test to do some PPC development...
now G4 instead of the ol' G3 which as too little ram, even if I love the
old clamshell. So I need to install "from scratch"
However, where do I get media for installing it and what is the
recommended way? CD? US
Hi Adrian!
first the good news, the CD boots... and appears to work.
Now to the more difficult things.
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Yes, I'm aware of the issues with Yaboot which is why we want to get rid of it.
It's unfortunately a bit tricky to get GRUB usable out-of-the-box on PPC Macs
Hi Adrian,
my interest in PPC surged again! so as you may have read, I got a second
"test" machine.
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
root@kapitsa:~# apt-cache policy systemd
systemd:
Installed: 239-9
Candidate: 239-10
Version table:
239-10 500
500http://ftp.ports.debi
Hi all,
I need to test a program which requires OpenGL on my iBook. The program
crashes.
:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[AMD/ATI] RV360/M12 [Mobility Radeon 9550] (rev 80)
To test if HW acceleration works at all, I wanted to install the
mythical glxge
Hi,
I can once reinstall from scratch Debian on my iBook (HW failure)
which I just did a fortnight ago...
Where are the GRUB explanations, is there a good guide? I was not able
to find the mails from Frank Scheiner.
How should I proceed to install with GRUB
1) do some magic and install GRUB
Hi!
I want to install on my iBook G4. It is a slightly different model than
the one I succeded 10 days ago... this is the 14" version and not the 12".
The last one had a motherboard failure, so I can't "test" on the old one.
I burned on CD the iso from here,
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimag
Riccardo Mottola wrote:
I did not try any USB tricks, I always had issues with USB sticks on
Mac, this is why I ent to optical media.
I did try to get debian 8.11.0 netinst on an USB stick
I am unable to boot that stick, neither with just "boot usb" from OF,
neither using
Hi John
John Ogness wrote:
Have you checked if the device is recognized? With the OF command
"devalias" you can see what usb0 is. For example, for me it is:
/pci@f200/usb@1b,1
You can manually traverse the device tree and see if the USB disk is
detected:
dev usb0
ls <--- should show a
Hi,
Riccardo Mottola wrote:
I tried booting of from the USB, but I don't know where to get the
system yaboot.conf from
now I have an installed systen (I hope) but cannot boot it.
My idea was to do the same USB trick again, but on the ard disk, thus doing:
1. boot usb1/disk@1:,\in
Hi Adrian!
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
It's not showing any partitions, see "List of all partitions".
It looks like it's not even detecting your hard drive.
but the installer knerl detected everything and installed, the installed
kernel not, isn't that strange?
I wonder if it is due to
Hi,
swamprock wrote:
Meanwhile, there is a fork of Pale Moon 27.x called Arctic Fox that can be used
on 32-bit PowerPC-https://github.com/wicknix/Arctic-Fox/
More
info:https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/arctic-fox-web-browser-for-10-6-32-64-bit.2133051/
I need to chime in, being one of th
Hi Christian!
Christian Zigotzky wrote:
Many thanks for ArcticFox! I successfully tested it on my AmigaOne
X1000 today. (64-bit 1.8 GHz dual-core PWRficient PA6T-1682M PowerPC
with AltiVec)
Screenshot of ArcticFox on Fienix (32-bit Debian based distribution
with a 64-bit kernel):
https://pl
Hi Christian
(removing others who will read the reply on the ML)
Christian Zigotzky wrote:
>
> Thanks for your reply. We get the error message 'Illegal instruction'
> on the X5000. That means it doesn't start. Could you please compile it
> without AltiVec (-maltivec -mabi=altivec)?
I do not pro
Hi all!
if you remember, I was able to install from CD-ROM to my hard disk of
the iBook G4, but then I am unable to boot it because yaboot issues the
dreaded "Decrementer exception".
I thought at first to try the trick I used for booting using the USB key
and then from the CDROM also for boo
On 1/1/19 7:48 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
To boot it, enter in Open-Firmware and "boot usb". I get into the
First Stage GNU/Linux bootstrap and type "l" for GNU/Linux. I get:
Decrementer exception at %SRR0: 001001d8 %%SRR1: 10003030
First, what gives `devalias usb` on your machine?
no al
Hi Frank!
good news.
On 1/3/19 8:13 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
Afterwards maybe check a hash (e.g. SHA256) of the file on both sender
and receiver to be sure it was transferred intact. When chrooted to
the actual installation, you should have hfsutils around (`/proc` and
`/sys` might need to
Hi!
I have my running iBook G4 14" now! The 14" model does have a pluggable
Airport card, different from the 12" which had one socketed to the
mainboard.
I got one on ebay, but I cannot see it. Hoping that it is not broken, I
suspect some missing driver or so. Where to look?
Should It come
Hi,
could you give me a hint for the right firmare to install for my radeon?
I get
[ 19.569835] [drm] Loading R200 Microcode
[ 19.742631] radeon :00:10.0: firmware: failed to load
radeon/R200_cp.bin (-2)
[ 19.742677] firmware_class: See https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for
informat
Hi Candy!
On 1/5/19 8:56 PM, Candy Gumdrop wrote:
deb [arch=all]http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid contrib non-free
After this you should be able to install the firmware as follows:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install firmware-amd-graphics
thanks... that was needed to get the co
Hi,
Brock suggested me to look here:
https://wiki.debian.org/PowerPC/FAQ#How_do_I_get_wireless_working.3F
there is a typo for sure, lscpi is probably lspci,.
In any case it suggests firmware-b43-installer, however that one and
firmware-b43legacy-installer require the package
b43-fwcutter
Hi Mathieu,
Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
Updated list:
- ps3-utils
- pmac-utils
- partman-newworld
- spu-tools
- pbbuttonsd
- b43-fwcutter (contrib)
the latter is a good catch :) For Airports, like I hit recentely.
Riccardo
Hi all!
swamprock wrote:
You can use Jessie’s fwcutter. This is what I did when I discovered
that it hadn’t been updated for sid.
any news on getting b43-fwcutter in our current repositories?
Alternatively, how can I install the sid version: can I somehow download
the .deb manually (from wh
Hi Adrian,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
So, again, unless there are really compelling arguments for using Yaboot
or SILO except for personal preference, I do absolutely see no reason
why I should carry the additional maintenance burden for it.
one reason is perhaps that on Macs GRUB is yet
Hi all,
Riccardo Mottola wrote:
any news on getting b43-fwcutter in our current repositories?
Alternatively, how can I install the sid version: can I somehow
download the .deb manually (from where?) and install it with dpkg?
may I ask again? I'm still using an USB dongle which is p
Hi Adrian,
On 2/1/19 4:59 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
See: http://snapshot.debian.org/package/b43-fwcutter/1%3A019-3/
fine, I downloaded and installed b43-fwcutter using dpkg.
Then following this guide:
https://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx#b43-b43legacy
I installed
apt-get install f
Hi Adrian,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
I don't think this error message is related to your CPU but rather to your
WiFi chipset. I would try installing the legacy version of the driver.
I will be able to test this myself in around a month after I have moved
into my new apartment. I will hav
Hi A,,
On 3/22/19 5:37 PM, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
Hi All,
Arctic Fox 27.9.16 is available.
Further information: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2412333
First, thanks to Christian for packaging ArcticFox.
If anybody finds this browser useful, the project would need some he
Hi!
I got extra a new (well.. used) PowerBook G4 to develop on, so I
proceeded with a fresh install. It shall serve me together with my iBook
G3 and iBook G4!
I got the PowerPC image from here:
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-05-24/
is that the best one?
The CD is bootable an
Hi Adrian,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
I understand that the installer situation for PowerMacs is a bit
frustrating at the moment, but we can't blame anyone but Apple who
implemented Open Firmware not 100% according to spec so that we
have to use workarounds.
A little bit confusing, yes..
Hi Adrian,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
I just wonder how people tested GRUB, I was just eager to test on this setup
too, since there is no critical data on the hard disk.
It worked for a while until the grub-installer was updated. It will work
in the foreseeable future and then without re
Hi,
Dennis Clarke wrote:
Here’s the URL for the yaboot-only installer:
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/10.0/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-10.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso
What is the last known good grub based installer ?
that was my same question. Reading Frank's comments, apparently onnce
Hi Adrian,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
It can be done from any running system, it doesn't really matter whether
it's been booted off a CD-ROM or from any other medium.
But I will be looking into this issue soonish. Please bear with me.
in the meanwhile I did not stand still, but I tried
Hi,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 6/25/19 11:50 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
in the meanwhile I did not stand still, but I tried:
1) boot with rescue CD as Frank suggested
2) mount root
Did you bind-mount /dev, /proc and /sys as well?
I did not - I though rescue would do that for me
Hi,
user...@yahoo.com wrote:
I think I had this same problem installing Debian 9 on a G5 system. The
workaround was to boot the rescue CD, open a shell and chroot into the
new installation, then run "ybin -v". I think I also entered
"set-defaults" first at the firmware prompt, but that may not
Riccardo Mottola wrote:
Hi,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 6/25/19 11:50 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
in the meanwhile I did not stand still, but I tried:
1) boot with rescue CD as Frank suggested
2) mount root
Did you bind-mount /dev, /proc and /sys as well?
I did not - I though rescue
Hi Frank
(removing some people from CC, which read us on the list anyway)
Frank Scheiner wrote:
Hi Riccardo,
sorry for being so late, but I was occupied by other things the last weeks.
I understand.. I will be for the next 3, so I have today to play and
perhaps a couple of weekends. Yesterd
Hi,
Riccardo Mottola wrote:
Now I don't know how to boot and I suppose there is no menu
configured/generated.
Shouldn't grub-install take care of that?
How can I fix this step?
I still wonder that "option" to boot doesn't list the hard disk as
bootable... so we
Hi Adrian
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
If you find something like those missing packages, put it on the TODO list in
the Debian Wiki for PowerPC. The b43-fwcutter package is already on the list,
however, so don’t worry.
just a kind reminder: it is still missing :)
Riccardo
Hi!
to my big surprise... startx... works at the first attempt!
However, the mouse just jumps around. Also attaching an external mouse
doesn't help, it continues jumping.
with some trickery I am able to "quit" and get back to console, I see:
appletouch: kernelbug: Touch jump detected and disc
Hi Bertrand,
Bertrand Dekoninck wrote:
Hi Riccardo !
I'm still running Jessie, but I never encountered this on my
powerbook. I'm rluctant to upgrade for now, since it really works like
a charm with Jessie.
Which model do you have ?
I got a PowerBook 17" Aluminium, should be one of the lat
Hi,
question especially to Frank & Adrian
I am upgrading the many new packages on my PowerBook which is
experimentally running GRUB.
I wonder, can I upgrade the GRUB packages without breaking its book or
do I risk that OF parameters are rewritten with the wrong paths and so
all the nast
Hi all!
is anybody capable of using OpenGL on their PowerMacs?
I noticed that just starting glxgears causes a "Bus error". I don't
think this is a good sign.
According to lspci, my card is detected as Mobility Radeon 9600.
Any special configuration to do? I already put myself part of the vid
Hi,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 9/18/19 8:14 PM, Riccaro Mottola wrote:
first, I noticed something very strange: if I connect remotely to the
PowerBook, then set DISPLAY :0 which shows things on the screen,
glxgears run!
Running GL applications through X forwarding is completely diff
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
It looks like you are using software rendering anyway. What does
"glxinfo"
say? Can you paste the output here?
name of display: :0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
server glx extensions:
Hi Adrian
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
One can just add the main archive with:
den [arch=all]http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable contrib non-free
to one’s sources.list and run “apt update”.
this worked! Actually, on one of the two laptops I have I left "sid"
instead of unstable. Fixe
Hi All!
I cannot install gimp2 because gimp installs 2.8x series, but pulls in
gimp-data, which is 2.10 series.
Looks like some packages upgraded and other not? Are there issues
getting 2.10 gimp as a whole?
In case, perhaps it is then better to retain gimp data to the
corresponding 2.8
Hi!
I'm trying to check out ArcticFox sources on the PPC64 devkit gear to
test a compilation of it. It has these cpu's:
processor : 0
cpu : e6500, altivec supported
clock : 1799.82MHz
revision : 2.0 (pvr 8040 0120)
since GIT is currently not available d
Hi!
I notice a strange behaviour on my PowerBook (Aluminum, latest model):
the touchpad does not work very well
- without external mouse, sometimes the system comes up and it does not work
- with an external mouse (which works fine) the mouse migrates in
circles, moves, without even touching t
Hi,
what is the best way to control "sleep" on our beloved old mac laptops?
E.g. often I want to avoid it, to be able to close the laptop lid and
work "remotely" through telnet/ssh.
Back in the time, I just inhibited a PMU service and it stopped doing it.
Now could it still be done?
I tried
Hi!
I have an iBook and a PowerBook with an italian keyboard. Keys with have
3 symbols each.
I need to type certain keys with the "right-something" key combination
(altgr on PC) or similar.
Some of these keys are crucial: @, #, [] and to a lesser extent €.
I need this in both console and x11!
Hi,
Riccardo Mottola wrote:
>
> I notice a strange behaviour on my PowerBook (Aluminum, latest model):
> the touchpad does not work very well
> - without external mouse, sometimes the system comes up and it does
> not work
> - with an external mouse (which works fine) the
Hi,
Zlatan Todorić wrote:
I am wondering are people aware of the effort to create a POWER based
laptop with open schematics.
https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/campaigns/donation-campaign-for-pcb-design-of-the-powerpc-notebook-motherboard/
I think it is quite an interesting fit and we could like
Hi Alex!
On 2020-04-16 19:46:19 +0200 Alex McKeever wrote:
> I was told that the kernel is why it doesn’t work 100%... that it needs
> User Space Modesetting and thus needs an older kernel like 2.6, 3.13 or
> 4.4.0-187 to work properly at all with the Rage128. I’d hate to say it but
> I’ve l
Hallo Michel,
On 2020-04-17 12:51:31 +0200 Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On 2020-04-16 7:46 p.m., Alex McKeever wrote:
>> I was told that the kernel is why it doesn’t work 100%... that it needs
>> User Space Modesetting and thus needs an older kernel like 2.6, 3.13 or
>> 4.4.0-187 to work properly at
Hi Adrian
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> These images should finally fix the installation process on Apple
> PowerMacs and PowerBooks compatible with GRUB, so basically every
> Macintosh using the New World ROM [2].
>
> One user already reported a successful installation on his PowerMac
> G5 a
Hi,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi!
>
> After some xorg driver packages were removed from the archive in #955603 [1]
> that we still need for Debian Ports, I was wondering whether it's okay when
> I take over maintainership and upload the packages to unstable as we need
> them.
>
> I unders
Hi!
Ed Robbins wrote:
This sounds like a good idea. I have a number of machines affected by
this issue (both G4 and x86). Is it possible to bring these packages
back into debian? They work well enough for many users.
I second that.. especially some of these are very useful on x86, some
also o
Hi!
just to report that I let the GRUB packages upgrade on my PowerBook G4
which was an early GRUB experiment... and nothing broke and it booted
again :-P :-P
Very good.. I hope this makes Debian PPC more accessible for many!
Riccardo
Hi,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Sorry, I wasn't meaning to minimize the effort of maintaining a parallel
set of non-systemd packages. And if there are only three users who are
requesting such a thing, you are absolutely right, it isn't worth the
effort.
As I said, there is the debian-init
Hi,
I just upgraded the kernel to 5.9.0 on my PowerBook G4 - no keyboard, I
cannot even login. I reverted to 7.0-2 and everything works as expected.
I do not have intermediate kernels, so I cannot tell when exactly things
broke.
Anyone else experiencing similar symptoms?
Riccardo
Hi!
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Just upgraded my iBook G4 with the latest unstable updates and rebooted the
machine
into kernel 5.9.0. Keyboard works fine and without any issues, same applies for
all
other hardware.
The output of dmesg, /var/log/Xorg.log.0 and lspci would be helpful if
Hi Adrian,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 11/7/20 3:33 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote> Hi!
As somebody else asked, I booted, attached an USB keyboard and that one works.
Is the keyboard ADB or USB? I see in the dmesg usb related messages.
Whom are you asking here?
Anybody who knows :)
Hi,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
I just upgraded the kernel to 5.9.0 on my PowerBook G4 - no keyboard, I
cannot>even login.
I reverted to 7.0-2 and everything works as expected.
I do not have intermediate kernels, so I cannot tell when exactly things broke.
You can find more kernel versio
Hi!
I develop on both an iBook G4 14" (should be one of the latest model,
although the motherboard ) and a PowerBook G4 17" both running debian...
Although currently different kernels, minor differences.
"In theory" I got the PB G4 because it should be faster than the iBook
* Same CPU version,
Hi,
Stan Johnson wrote:
Adrian,
Yes, the 5.9.0 kernel works on my PB G4 12". The built-in keyboard is
detected as ADB. In a Google search, everything I was able to find
indicated that G4 PowerBooks use ADB for their built-in keyboards and
trackpads.
I can say that 5.7 kernels recognize the i
Hi,
Brian Morris wrote:
% time cat huge_file_copy
Install smartctl to check drive health
I also have a PowerBook 1ghz which is quite a bit faster than my
1.5ghz tho could be because the former has a bit more ram and a newer
hard drive and the latter has a defective 2nd ram slot
I wanted t
Hi,
On 12/3/20 3:05 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hi!
I uploaded updated Debian installer CD images today.
These come with the latest versions of the kernel and the debian-installer
application as well as various other updates. The images can be found at
the usual location [1] as well
Hi,
since the 2020-12-03 image did not work (installs, but system does not
boot) I tried walking back in time... and see
2020-12-03: installs, no boot
2020-11-16: installs, no boot
2020-10-13: broken image, installer starts, but finds "no device for
installation media was detected" (cdrom
Hi Adrian,
On 12/25/20 2:20 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
This has all been debugged and discussed on the list.
I just hadn't had the time to continue working on the issues with partman yet.
I have read the threads with Dennis, but found no solution, conclusion
about it. Can you poin
Hi Adrian
On 12/27/20 11:19 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
I have read previous threads about hfsutils, but thought they were fixed, as
per your
mail with Frank Scheiner.
I cannot make any further tests to the grub-installer code at the moment since
we need
to fix the partman issue fir
Hi!
On 12/27/20 2:49 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
You are confusing hfsprogs and hfsutils. The former is actually missing on the
FTP
server.
The confusion arises because I found this in the logs:
Dec 25 15:29:46 in-target: hfsutils: not found
Dec 25 15:29:46 in-target:
Dec 25 15:29
Hi Adrian,
On 12/28/20 1:53 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Well, it's broken at the moment and I will fix that within the
next days.
what are you going to fix? the glibc issue you say shouldn't matter.
I did another interesting thing. I run the "expert installation" of the
most curre
Hi,
On 12/28/20 9:31 PM, Alex Perez wrote:
Hi folks,
I just wanted to share that I was able to succesfully boot and install
Debian 10 using the "official" Debian 10 netinst CD from [1], with the
exception of the bootloader, which failed, and I had to handle manually.
I also tried booting from
Hi,
On 12/28/20 9:51 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
You should try to install one of the Yaboot images to make sure there is no
problem
with your machine.
That could be a check to perform... where is the last working yaboot image to
be found?
See:https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/port
Hi Adrian,
On 12/28/20 9:51 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
You should try to install one of the Yaboot images to make sure there is no
problem
with your machine.
That could be a check to perform... where is the last working yaboot image to
be found?
See:https://cdimage.debian.org/cdima
Hi,
it is my first time I run linux on an iMac G5 and have some doubts about
its cooling.
I noticed that while installing Debian, the fan spins at full speed and
it really deserves the term "windfarm", it is as loud as a vacuum cleaner.
Once Linux is fully installed, the system runs quiet w
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