Copying whole directory trees on a running system is not easy. I would
use tar instead of cp.
On source machine (note option -l, a.k.a. --one-file-system, to avoid
recursion):
tar -clf - / | tar -xf - -C /mnt/portable
and on target machine:
tar -cf - -C /mnt/portable * | tar -xf - -C /mnt/t
AFAIK, ISO boot works only on CD. USB stick looks like a hard disk to
the OS. So it should, in case of Linux, contain an 800k HFS boot
partition with yaboot.
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You could check the udev version on the CD:
dpkg -l udev
And then upgrade (or downgrade) the package from within chroot:
apt-get install udev=
BTW, you haven't been running earlier versions of Debian on your
Lombard? I'm asking, because I have big problems on my Lombard: if I
have either hald o
Hi Jeroen,
I have never seen a battery meter in LXDE panel, but assume that you
have since you are asking. Where is it located?
I'm using Debian 6.0.1 (Squeeze) on a PowerBook G3 Lombard. Right now
my problem is that the computer does not know it has a battery and
does not charge it. Maybe I hav
Ok, now the battery is back alive. And I added pmu_battery to
/etc/modules, and it is getting loaded, pulling power_supply below it.
Still no sign of any battery meter.
My aptitude cannot find any powerprefs. I have stable, stable/updates,
squeeze-updates, and squeeze-backports in my sources.list.
Now I think I'm beginning to understand. I installed the powerprefs
package, but I don't think that it made any difference. But I found in
the panel preferences a battery meter applet. Unfortunately it doesn't
seem to support my machine (PowerBook G3 Lombard). It pops up a
battery low message box,
Hi Jeroen,
Thanks for your help!
I have pbbuttonsd running, and the conf file is identical with yours.
I also tried to run powerprefs, and, in the Battery tab, the Current
Battery Warnlevel is 0. I'm not sure what it means.
The battery meter is actually present in the panel: a 2 mm narrow
black
And the battery in question looks like this (running on battery now):
risto@lombard:~$ cat /proc/pmu/battery_0
flags : 0011
charge : 2677
max_charge : 4377
current: -1478
voltage: 11109
time rem. : 6520
risto@lombard:~$
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2011/7/31, Jeroen Diederen :
> battery is not shown when not plugged in, you can set the behavior in the
> preferences of that panel item. It can then also display that no battery
> is present.
>
Looks like my preferences won't allow this. Only colours and such can
be adjusted. Perhaps an older ver
Thanks, Elimar,
2011/7/31, Elimar Riesebieter :
>
> Package: wmbatppc
>
This one supports my battery. But it won't get docked in the LXDE panel...
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> Install gnome-power-manager, logout and login again. Maybe that helps..
>
Now you're talking. It didn't start automatically, but I wrote a
.xsessionrc with one line:
gnome-power-manager &
and now I have a functional battery meter in the dock. Thanks again, Jeroen.
N
2011/9/21, David Lowe :
> I recently put 6.0.2.1 on a PowerMac G5. The install seemed to go well,
> but the reboot on this machine gives me just a blank screen. I get normal
> video from yaboot, and normal video from OSX, but nothing from Squeeze. In
> fact, the monitor tells me it's not e
2011/12/11, MiB :
> I have a Powerbook G4 Alu 17" with international Swedish keyboard and
> it works nicely except I can't deduct how to get to the characters
> usually only typeable with the "alt-shift" combination, like backslah
> for instance.
>
> How do I setup the keyboard to use all modifier
Looks like this is a never-ending story...
Originally there was only snd-powermac and it supported machines up to
snapper: http://wiki.debian.org/PowerpcSoundcards
Then came snd-aoa which supported machines from (and including)
snapper upwards. And at some point snd-powermac decided to set a limi
Not an answer to your question, maybe, but right now YouTube seems to
work with Gnash on my PowerMac G5, Squeeze, for the first time.
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> otherwise.
>
> Dean
>
> On Sat, 7 Jan 2012 11:08:50 +0200, Risto Suominen wrote:
>> Not an answer to your question, maybe, but right now YouTube seems to
>> work with Gnash on my PowerMac G5, Squeeze, for the first time.
>>
>> Risto
>
I just installed
2012/1/23, Mark Benson :
> I don't even know where to put a xorg.conf to get it to read it in?
>
Same as always, /etc/X11.
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2012/2/5, Erik de Castro Lopo :
> Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>
>> It seems I've messed up yaboot on a G5 running debian. anyone know how
>> I get the cdrom door open to boot from cdrom? I'm using a standard PC
>> usb keyboard.
>
> Ah, got it.
>
> The little aluminium door can be physically slid dow
2012/2/20, e20100633 :
> Hello,
>
> I'm planning to install Debian on my iMac PowerPC G4. I already
> installed it years ago on an iBook G4 so I know the process. But my
> question is about booting and installing it from an usb stick instead of
> a cd-rom or tftp.
>
> I didn't found anything about
2012/3/28, jwesleycoo...@cox.net :
> Hey all,
>
> I'm having some trouble getting Debian Squeeze installed on my old original
> iMac, which is one of the first "Bondi" blue ones ... from what your install
> guide says, it should be supported; plus I know it's not the disks though,
> because the Ope
2012/3/28, John Wesley Cooper :
> Yes, it works on other machines, and I've read/burnt cd-r's using this iMac
> before.
>
That's interesting. So you have a CD writer on tray loading iMac. I
didn't know they existed. That makes the problem even harder to
understand: CD writers should be able to read
2012/3/28, John Wesley Cooper :
> Actually, the cd writer is a usb peripheral, but the cd tray drive has
> always been able to read disks I've burnt using that.
>
> I'm not even sure if it can read dvds.
>
I'm sure it can't. Only CD's.
Maybe the drive is just getting old, as we all...
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2012/7/4, Ian Wilson :
> Hello,
>
> I need a little help here. I did a netinstall of Squeeze to my IMac G3
> which has 650Mb of ram. I selected to bottom option from the menu ( install
> separate partitions ) and also the GUI at install. Booting results in a
> black screen. Typing
Hi Carl,
Mac mini G4 needs snd-aoa, so it should not be blacklisted. Just
remove the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.local.conf, and reboot.
The question is, why does the installer make wrong decision...
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>
> When I give the cmd+opt+o+f command on start up to load the Open Firmware
> interface problems happen. I try the 'dev / ls' command for the device
> tree. The external hard drive does not show up under any of the usb tree
> members. However, Open Firmware is able t
Hi,
> Ed Swierk (14/12/2012):
>> Dec 14 02:17:16 main-menu[190]: (process:1505): ofpath: Driver pata_macio
>> is not supported
If this is the reason for the failure, then it's probably harmless. My
memory tells me that oldworld booting didn't need any OF path
parameters to be set. Thus, there wo
Hi,
2013/1/18, David Adcock :
> Machine: G5 Mac Tower: Wheezy for PowerPC64; gdm3 desktop.
>
> Desktop has been great since I bought the machine a few weeks ago. But
> after my [apt-get update / apt-get upgrade] last weekend, ALL text on the
> screen is rendered in white - on a white background.
Hi Antonis,
Is snd_powermac included in /etc/modules?
Are there any snd_aoa (or snd-aoa) related modules blacklisted in
/etc/modprobe.d/*? There should be.
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2013/2/11, Antonis Christofides :
> On 2013-02-11 17:33, someone wrote:
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCFAQ#Why_do_I_have_no_sound.3F
>
This gives a hint about where it all started. Powermac G4 Digital
Audio is a special case. In general, older PPC Macs use snd-powermac
and newer snd-aoa.
Newer
2013/2/11, Elimar Riesebieter :
> * Risto Suominen [2013-02-11 21:12 +0200]:
>
> [...]
>> Debian Installer tries to make a decision between the two drivers,
>> and, either manually load snd-powermac and blacklist snd-aoa, or do
>> nothing.
>
> Hmm, could you plea
2013/2/11, Elimar Riesebieter :
> * Risto Suominen [2013-02-11 21:59 +0200]:
>> The installer searches /proc/device-tree for a leaf whose name is
>> 'sound', and if this leaf does not contain a file named layout-id, it
>> blacklists snd-aoa modules in /etc/modprobe
Looks like this bug is still here, because the patch I wrote a year
ago hasn't found its way to the installer. I have to push harder, I
guess.
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Hi Lobo,
AFAIK, there should be only one codec, possibly snd-aoa-codec-tas (or
onyx) in this case.
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Hi Frank,
2013/9/17, frank :
> please Can you help me on this sound and wireless problem, i have a imac
> ppc
> g5 ibm processor with debian wheezy 7.1
> and have no sound and wireless, can you please give me detailed commands
> you
> wrote bellow but when i type in the terminal /etc/modules get
The name of the file I gave might have been wrong, try:
mv /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.local.conf /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.local.conf.off
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It's a single line, only one command:
mv /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-local.conf /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-local.conf-off
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Good idea, Rogério!
I've been working with powermac sound drivers, and could contribute at
least in that area: automatic detection of sound hardware during the
installation. Plus testing, I still own quite many old powermacs.
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Today's (2013-12-23 17:10)
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso
seems to have this fixed.
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Hello Geoff,
2014/1/17, Geoff Down :
> a) What am I doing wrong please?
To me it sounds right, but I'm no expert on hard disk installations.
> In a previous attempt I got the installer to see an ISO in a different
> partition *on the same hard disk* (disk0) as the installer. But I
> aborted that
Hi Kristen,
2014/1/21, Kristen R :
>
> Advice as to what I should do? Like, how does one drop to a shell so I might
> access the xorg.config file?
>
Adding '1' to yaboot command line should bring you to single user mode.
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Hi Geoff,
The partitions are fine.
The first prompt if ofboot (Open Firmware), where you can choose
between partitions: Linux and OS X. The second one is yaboot, where
you can type 'Linux 1' to get into single user mode prompt.
Risto
2014/1/21, Geoff Down :
> PS I also get 'Disk unreadable' err
2014/1/22, Geoff Down :
>
> I can now boot into the command line and login.
> Is there any way to install Gnome now in a way that allows me to debug
> any problems - starting it from the command line and being able to
> escape back into a shell perhaps?
>
I would first install openssh-server, to al
2014/1/22, Geoff Down :
>
> That means I could really do with a way of transferring log files etc
> between the Linux drive and the OSX drive. OSX can't access the Linix
> filesystem apparently - can I make Linux access the OSX disk?
>
I wouldn't recommend trying that. In worst case you could make
2014/1/22, Geoff Down :
>
> From the Debian PPC Install Manual:
> 'To share information between the Mac OS X and GNU/Linux systems, an
> exchange partition is handy. HFS, HFS+ and MS-DOS FAT file systems are
> supported by MacOS 9, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux. '
> I wouldn't have embarked on the proje
X Probabl selects wrong output. I'm using DVI, and the following
/etc/X11/xorg.conf makes it work:
--
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
BusID "PCI:240:16:0"
Driver "nouveau"
Option "Monitor-TV-1" "Configured Monitor"
Option "NoAccel"
2014-03-02 15:12 UTC+02.00, Aaron Valdes :
>
> This is Debian Wheezy on the Power Mac G5 with GeForce FX 5200 Ultra.
>
I have exactly the same machine. Kernel is 3.1.0-1-powerpc64.
Which output connector are you using, DVI (DVI-I-2) or ADC (DVI-I-1)?
If you can ssh into the machine, take a look a
2014-03-03 2:16 UTC+02.00, Aaron Valdes :
>
> boot: Linux video=DVI-I-1:d video=DVI-I-2:1280x1024:@75 video=TV-1:d
>
This is basically the same as my solution: unused outputs ADC and TV
are disabled, in addition the screen resolution is specified for DVI.
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You are right, Aaron. I also have that 'video=TV-1:d' on the kernel
command line.
It comes from /etc/yaboot.conf (so you don't need to write it on every boot):
append=" video=TV-1:d"
F.ex.:
image=/boot/vmlinux
label=Linux
read-only
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append=
2014-03-03 18:42 UTC+02.00, Aaron Valdes :
>
> Can you post your xorg.conf?
>
Here it is:
--
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
BusID "PCI:240:16:0"
Driver "nouveau"
Option "Monitor-TV-1" "Configured Monitor"
Option "NoAccel" "true
One option you might try in your xorg.conf's Section "Device":
Option "NoAccel" "true"
I have put it in mine. I don't remember why. This is a 12" PowerBook 1.33 MHz.
lspci.
:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV34M
[GeForce FX Go5200] (rev a1)
dmesg:
[ 10.305792] [drm]
Hi Riccardo,
I've applied similar patches with a recipe resembling the following:
- create a file with the patch: mach64.patch
- install dpkg-dev: apt-get install dpkg-dev
- get and extract the package source: apt-get source xf86-video-mach64
- cd into the directory
- apply the patch: patch -p1 -i
iMac G3 is very sensitive to the correct display frequencies. X will
show black screen, unless you put into xorg.conf's Section "Monitor":
HorizSync 58-62
VertRefresh 75-117
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2014-10-30 20:34 UTC+02.00, Athanasios Anastasiou :
>
> But this comment about yaboot confused me a bit. Do i have to have matching
> settings between yaboot and X (how come?)
>
I don't think so. Check your Xorg.0.log and send it here.
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2014-11-01 17:55 UTC+02.00, Athanasios Anastasiou :
>
> If anyone has a working slotloader G3 @400MHz can you please post your
> "device" section?
>
Driver "ati"
Option "UseFBDev" "false"
Option "SWCursor" "true"
Option "ForcePCIMode" "true"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
Option "DRI" "true"
Hi,
This is probably an old issue, possibly discussed before, even on this list.
I've been holding my linux-image as version 3.2.0-2 to avoid the problem.
So, the problem: after upgrading to 3.2.0-4, X display is not working.
According to Xorg.log everything is as before, but the screen remains
Hi again,
This is another old issue, been there probably since kernel 3...
Airport cannot be used, the relevant dmesg output is following:
[8.093462] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4306 WLAN found (core revision 5)
[8.189942] Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx
[8.189990] Registered led device:
Hi,
2015-02-02 21:44 UTC+02.00, Konstantinos Margaritis :
>
> I'd like to help on the ppc64 port, I have ppc32 hardware,
> ppc64/ppc64el remote VM accounts but no actual ppc64 hardware. I
> just lost an extremely low bid for an imac g5 on ebay and am short
> on cash for another, but if anyone has
Hi,
2015-02-03 11:38 UTC+02.00, Konstantinos Margaritis :
>
> That would be a nice choice, if it's in a working condition I can
> fix/replace the fans, do you know if the system is DDR/DDR2?
It's DDR (400). I'm afraid it cannot be expanded over 2 GB.
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Hi Konstantinos,
2015-02-03 22:07 UTC+02.00, Konstantinos Margaritis :
>
> If the offer still stands, I will send you a private message to arrange
> this.
>
Yes, it does.
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Hi,
There is also another, older, driver, snd-powermac. I'm not sure which
one is correct for your hardware. Can you see a message in dmesg that
says something like 'snd-powermac no longer handles machines with
something'?
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Hi,
I checked my PowerBook6,4 running Debian 7.0 with kernel 3.2.0:
- snd-aoa is blacklisted
- snd-powermac is loaded and works
I don't say that snd-aoa cannot be used, but at least snd-powermac used to work.
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Hi Rick,
2015-04-30 12.49 UTC+03.00, Rick Thomas :
>
> Did you ever discover how to fix it without holding back on the kernel level?
>
No, I didn't. (Sorry for the late reply.)
I'm using X, so the 'disable KMS' solution doesn't sound good.
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I don't remember any PowerPC Macs that wouldn't allow me to enter Open
Firmware. (The early beige series machines, G3 and below, sent the
output to serial port, not screen, by default. It was possible to
change once you got there.)
Some machines require accurate timing to get into Open Firmware. T
The machine has a PowerPC processor, it cannot run Intel code. You
would need a PowerPC CD image.
Open Firmware understands a Mac style partition table and an HFS file
system. Those are present on the PowerPC Install CD images (hybrid
CDs, they contain an ISO9660 file system as well).
Risto
There is a good wiki page on this topic:
https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard
In worst case you could edit /etc/default/keyboard directly, and then
reboot to be sure that the changes take effect.
Risto
Looks like yaboot does not find its conf file any more.
I'm trying to install (CD) Debian on a PowerMac G5 (7,3). Jessie
(yaboot 1.3.16) works.
Stretch (yaboot 1.3.17) does not. It complains:
cd:-1,\install\yaboot.conf: Unable to open file, Invalid device
Or, on a Mac mini G4:
cd:-1,\install\m
Hi Steven,
2016-03-17 2:25 UTC+02.00, Steven Grunza :
> Should I expect Debian debian-8.3.0-powerpc-xfce-CD-1 to work on an Apple
> iMac G5?
>
Yes.
>
> I tried installing it and just have a blank screen.
>
> Using Control-Option-F1 I have a text console on the built-in display that
> is displaying
I run successfully 4.4.0-rc7-powerpc64 on my PowerMac G5. (Thanks, Peter.)
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8pqd5Ots1vfT2puX09CYjEwcFk&usp=sharing
Risto
2016-03-23 4:44 UTC+02.00, Steven Grunza :
> Trying to install 4.4.0-rc7.powerpc64 I got:
>
> dpkg: error processing package linux-headers-4.4.0-rc-powerpc64
> (--install):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Setting up linux-image-4.4.0-rc7-powerpc64 (2) ...
>
> Hmm. There is a symbol
I don't know the answer, but I doubt it would help because the problem
(those 64k pages) has been there for quite long.
What went wrong with the 4.4.0-rc7-powerpc64 kernel?
Risto
The other reason for using Peter's kernel is the page size. The
official kernels use 64 k pages that do not work with nouveau.
Risto
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