Re: How to make a custom installer CD/DVD/BD/USB-stick?

2013-09-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Just seen this thread, apologies for delayed responses ]

On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 11:40:54PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
>On Jul 5, 2013, at 1:25 PM, Brian wrote:
>
>>Well wouldn't documentation for Jigdo template be in Jigdo package?
>
>The jigdo template is a lot lower level than I was hoping for.  It's
>kinda like the object code, where I'm looking for the high-level
>language source code and a compiler to produce the object code from
>it.

Correct.

>It's theoretically possible to edit the jigdo template, and all the
>binary parts it contains, just as it's theoretically possible to edit
>the java byte-code for a subroutine that almost does what you want --
>but it's much more convenient (and comprehensible) to edit the java
>source code.  What I'm hoping for is that there's something like a
>compiler that takes a human understandable specification, in the form
>of list of packages and other configurable components of an installer
>CD/DVD/BD/etc, and outputs a jigdo template (or such) that implements
>that specification.
>
>I'm hoping that's exactly what simple-cdd is.

simple-cdd is meant to do that kind of thing AFAIK, yes.
Alternatively, debian-cd is the core package that we use for creating
the main Debian images. It's very flexible and (sorry!) not
particularly well documented...

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 as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." -- Daniel Pead


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Re: Sound and BCM4318 wireless no longer working in Wheezy on late 2005 G5

2013-09-17 Thread Risto Suominen
It's a single line, only one command:

mv /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-local.conf /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-local.conf-off

Risto


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Re: Sound and BCM4318 wireless no longer working in Wheezy on late 2005 G5

2013-09-17 Thread Ramiro Francisco
Thanks Risto but no matter what i do still come up with



frank@dsl:~$ su
Password:
root@dsl:/home/frank#  mv /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-local.conf
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-local.conf-off
mv: cannot stat `/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-local.conf': No such file or
directory
root@dsl:/home/frank#






On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Risto Suominen
wrote:

> It's a single line, only one command:
>
> mv /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-local.conf
> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-local.conf-off
>
> Risto
>


Re: Sound and BCM4318 wireless no longer working in Wheezy on late 2005 G5

2013-09-17 Thread Risto Suominen
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

Risto


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Re: Sound and BCM4318 wireless no longer working in Wheezy on late 2005 G5

2013-09-17 Thread Ramiro Francisco
Thank you Sir i did what you instructed and  i get this


root@dsl:/home/frank# mv /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-local.conf
mv: missing destination file operand after
`/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-local.conf'
Try `mv --help' for more information.
root@dsl:/home/frank# /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-local.conf-off
bash: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-local.conf-off: No such file or directory
root@dsl:/home/frank# mv /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-local.conf
mv: missing destination file operand after
`/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-local.conf'
Try `mv --help' for more information.
root@dsl:/home/frank# /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-local.conf-off
bash: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-local.conf-off: No such file or directory
root@dsl:/home/frank#





On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Risto Suominen wrote:

> 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 error code
> > i'm notvery savey on this so please give me step by step on how you've
> done
> > it thanks.
> >
> The actual reason for your sound problem is probably the file
> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-local.conf that hinders the aoa drivers from
> getting loaded. You can just rename it to end something else than
> .conf, and it stops working:
>
> $ su
> # mv /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-local.conf
> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-local.conf-off
>
> Now, just reboot, and it should be ok.
>
> The file was created by the installer that made the wrong decision
> about which sound driver is needed on this machine.
>
> Having snd-powermac listed in /etc/modules is unnecessary but
> harmless. The driver itself knows that it cannot work on the machine
> in question.
>
> Risto
>