Diagnosing early kernel hang [was Re: kernel .config for Debian stock kernel?]
Brian P. Flaherty wrote: Wartan Hachaturow wrote: [...] Kernel configs are available in kernel image packages, and reside in /boot/config-*. Thank you, I'll try to build a new kernel using the 2.6.18 config. I built a 2.6.26 kernel today starting from the 2.6.18 config. That custom kernel hangs in the same place as the Debian installed and Lenny install CD kernel. I don't know exactly where it is hanging, but it is pretty early in the boot process. I think it may be right before the frame buffer happens (Isn't that when the penguin shows up in the top fifth of the screen?). Today I was comparing the kernel and cpu options between the two configs, but couldn't not fix it. Any suggestions for what I should look to change in the 2.6.26 config? Also, are the fans quieter with 2.6.26? That is one of the reasons I wanted to try to get it working. Thank you for your time and thoughts, Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Does someone use grub?
On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 22:08 +, Jörg Sommer wrote: does someone of you use grub on PowerPC? I do. I thought about replacing yaboot by grub, but a deeper look showed I have to do stuff by hand, i.e. it misses a default configuration. What do you mean by that? I don't remember doing anything special other than mounting the HFS bootstrap partition on /boot/grub. However, note that there's a couple of bugs which may be a problem: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=516458 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520286 I'm using self-built binaries with these patched. In any case, you obviously shouldn't change the boot-device variable in NVRAM from yaboot to GRUB until you've successfully booted the latter manually from the OF prompt. Is it worth to do it? Is grub better than yaboot? I can't answer that for you, but FWIW my main motivations were: * I was able to migrate my filesystem from ext3 to ext4 without repartitioning for a separate /boot which yaboot can read. In general, GRUB2 supports many more filesystems as well as things like LVM and RAID (at least in theory, can't say how well these things work on powerpc at this point). * update-grub2 automagically adds all kernels and any corresponding initrds in /boot to /boot/grub/grub.cfg (with 'postinst_hook = update-grub2' and 'postrm_hook = update-grub2' in /etc/kernel-img.conf), I no longer have to take care that the symlinks referenced in yaboot.conf remain valid when removing kernel images. * More powerful user interface at boot time, e.g. you can change boot parameters in an editor, and there's tab completion for filenames, so even if there is a problem with the kernel entries in grub.cfg, it's easier than with yaboot to manually specify the kernel and initrd to boot. Can grub boot OS X and from CD, i.e. that what enablecdboot in yaboot offers? I don't know of any way to do these, but I haven't really tried to find out if there is because it's easy enough to do these things from OF anyway: hold the C key on bootup to boot from the optical drive, hold the alt key to get a GUI boot volume chooser. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer |http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
iBook G3 - Debian Lenny and one projector
Hello I have a iBook G3 Dual USB 800MHz, I need conect a projector to it. Need clone my screen in the projector. This is my xorg.conf file: # xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file) # # This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using # values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page. # (Type man xorg.conf at the shell prompt.) # # This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only* # if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg # package. # # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated # again, run the following command: # sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg Section InputDevice IdentifierGeneric Keyboard Driverkbd OptionXkbRulesxorg OptionXkbModelpc104 OptionXkbLayoutes EndSection Section InputDevice IdentifierConfigured Mouse Drivermouse EndSection Section Device IdentifierATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 9000] Driver radeon BusIDPCI:0:16:0 OptionUseFBDevtrue EndSection Section Monitor IdentifierConfigured Monitor OptionDPMS EndSection Section Screen IdentifierATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 9000] MonitorConfigured Monitor DefaultDepth24 SubsectionDisplay Depth 16 Modes 1024x768 EndSubSection SubSectionDisplay Depth 24 Modes 1024x768 EndSubSection EndSection How I can make it? -- http://nuevaeracr.blogspot.com Linux user number 478378 Linux machine number 386687 Tec. Esteban Monge Marín Tel: (506) 8379-3562 “No habrá manera de desarrollarnos y salir de la pobreza mientras los pocos negocios grandes de nuestro medio se entreguen a las economías foráneas y nosotros nos quedemos con solo negocios de pobre, mientras en vez de ser propietarios de nuestro propio país nos convirtamos en un ejército de empleados del exterior” José Figueres Ferrer, 1952.
Re: iBook G3 - Debian Lenny and one projector
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:15:51 -0600 Esteban Monge esteban.franci...@gmail.com wrote: Hello I have a iBook G3 Dual USB 800MHz, I need conect a projector to it. Need clone my screen in the projector. This is my xorg.conf file: [snip] How I can make it? -- Hi there, I haven't tried it myself since I don't have access to a projector. But in order to clone or mirror your screen you need to use xrandr. If you don't have it installed then use aptitude to install it. I think the radeon driver you're using supports xrandr but there is only one way to find out. Install xrandr, plug it in, and use the xrandr command line program to clone/mirror your screen. You can use the man page to see how to use it or use the following examples in the following article: http://blog.hydrasystemsllc.com/2009/02/21/xrandr-and-the-x-window-system/ Good luck and post back your results. Amit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: iBook G3 - Debian Lenny and one projector
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:15:51 -0600 Esteban Monge esteban.franci...@gmail.com wrote: EM Hello I have a iBook G3 Dual USB 800MHz, I need conect a projector EM to it. Need clone my screen in the projector. EM There is a command-line utility called m3mirror which can switch on and off the display and external graphics outputs (I don't recall the URL). You may also find you need a kernel patch to get rid of the waves in the external display -- I know I posted that to the Ubuntu forums a couple of years back. -- ++---+-+ | James Tappin | School of Physics Astronomy | O__| | s...@star.sr.bham.ac.uk | University of Birmingham | -- \/` | | Ph: 0121-414-6462. Fax: 0121-414-3722 | | ++-+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: iBook G3 - Debian Lenny and one projector
Esteban Monge wrote: How I can make it? On my iBook G4 it looks like this: % xrandr --addmode VGA-0 1024x768 This is there simply because my projector (not sure if that applies to all) doesn't provide any information regarding supported modes, etc. in the same way monitors do. % xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1024x768 --output LVDS --off This uses the previously added mode and switches off the laptop screen (you can omit the last two options if not needed). % man xrandr Last but not least ;^) My xorg.conf has only basic entries as I use the xserver automatic configuration. P.S. You can create an alias for it or put it into a script. Regards, -- Raf http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Bug#520711: installation-reports: The squeeze netinst doesn't find archive
I just tried the PowerPC squeeze businesscard install disk, with the same results. The CD was downloaded from the URL: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/testing/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/ The boilerplate on that directory says: Daily build #3 for powerpc, using installer build from squeeze These images will install the testing version of Debian, currently Squeeze. See the top-level daily directory for more information about the daily builds. This build finished at Tue Mar 24 15:56:34 UTC 2009. The CD booted fine, it ran thru the normal process of picking a language and keyboard type, loading modules, etc then tried to DHCP a network address. This failed because there's no DHCP server on that network. I manually configured the network numbers, and it got its name from the DNS server (so I didn't fat-finger the network configuration) Then it was time to configure a mirror, and I chose the default: ftp.us.debian.org . This resulted in the Bad archive mirror error. When I switch to the alt-F2 console and try to do a wget, I get a segmentation fault. I tried the PowerPC netinst install CD from the same directory, with the same results. Hope this helps to analyze the bug... Rick On Mar 22, 2009, at 5:38 AM, Alexander V.Inyakin wrote: Package: installation-reports Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso22-Mar-2009 05:02 152M Date: 10:00 22.03.2009 Machine: Compaq CQ60 Partitions: df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [O ] Detect network card:[O ] Configure network: [O ] Detect CD: [O ] Load installer modules: [O ] Detect hard drives: [O ] Partition hard drives: [O ] Install base system:[O ] Clock/timezone setup: [O ] User/password setup:[O ] Install tasks: [E ] Install boot loader:[ ] Overall install:[ ] Comments/Problems: Configuring package manager the squeeze netinst gives Bad archive mirror message at any archive beginning from ftp.us.debian.org -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Bug#520711: installation-reports: The squeeze netinst doesn't find archive
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Rick Thomas rbthoma...@pobox.com wrote: When I switch to the alt-F2 console and try to do a wget, I get a segmentation fault. Please take a look on the syslog of the installer and if possible attach it to this bug report (please, gzip it). -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Bug#520711: installation-reports: The squeeze netinst doesn't find archive
On Mar 24, 2009, at 10:09 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Rick Thomas rbthoma...@pobox.com wrote: When I switch to the alt-F2 console and try to do a wget, I get a segmentation fault. Please take a look on the syslog of the installer and if possible attach it to this bug report (please, gzip it). The syslog file of a failed install has been sent to the 520711 bug report. I glanced at it, but I'm not a d-i guru (just a [usually] happy user). The only thing I noticed was a few occurrences of Mar 25 03:36:30 main-menu[695]: DEBUG: resolver (libc6-udeb): package doesn't exist (ignored) Mar 25 03:36:30 main-menu[695]: DEBUG: resolver (libc6): package doesn't exist (ignored) But they are probably harmless because they were followed eventually by Mar 25 03:36:36 anna[3512]: DEBUG: retrieving libc6-udeb 2.9-4 so something else will be needed to explain the seg-fault in wget. This particular installation attempt was done on a network that did have DHCP, so the syslog shows it succeeding -- no manual network configuration was required. From this I assume I can deduce that the network was up and working, so it's not a matter of having the wrong (or no) network driver... Hope it helps... Rick PS: I assume that Otavio and Alexander are subscribed to the PowerPC list or the 520711 bug report (or both) so I've trimmed them off the CC list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
