Re: PowerPC daily install CDs? [Was: Re: Netinst for testing?]
I have been directing folks to http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/powerpc/iso-cd/ and as of now Sunday 25 October 9:15 Eastern Time I'm seeing a full set of discs dated 19 October, last Monday. All seems right with the world at that url. All my best - Chris Reich; Rochester, New York twittername: chrisreich --- On Sat, 10/24/09, Rick Thomas rbthoma...@pobox.com wrote: From: Rick Thomas rbthoma...@pobox.com Subject: PowerPC daily install CDs? [Was: Re: Netinst for testing?] To: CD List Debian debian...@lists.debian.org Cc: PowerPC List Debian debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, October 24, 2009, 11:25 PM On Oct 24, 2009, at 10:03 PM, Frans Pop wrote: On Saturday 24 October 2009, Dennis Wicks wrote: I thought that I had previously gotten net install CD iso for what was then the testing release of Debian. Links to current images are available from: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ Cheers, FJP Hmmm... If I follow that link, then click on • netinst ... and businesscard ... CD images ... [powerpc] I get taken to a directory that claims This build finished at Thu Oct 1 23:28:01 UTC 2009. Is it possible that PowerPC CD builds have been down for over three weeks and nobody noticed? !?!?!?! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-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
New World GNU/Linux first release
This is to announce the alpha01 release of New World GNU/Linux for PPC-based Apple Mac computers, based on Debian GNU/Linux. New World GNU/Linux is characterized by an optimized kernel for the best desktop experience possible on Apple PPC computers built on Apples' New World platform. The project url is newworldos.sourceforge.net Testers, developers, and the merely curious are most welcome. Chris Reich; Rochester, New York twittername: chrisreich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Market research for new PowerPC system
Speaking for myself, and I'm a small-time consultant to the local Small-Office Home-Office market, I would wholeheartedly welcome the arrival to the market of a PowerPC/Power motherboard. I would commission local builders to create servers and desktops that would have that one extra layer of protection from malware. I believe it would also give developers a platform to hone their skills on a native platform for the embedded market. I wholeheartedly endorse the creation of a PowerPC/POWER motherboard. I'll be one of the first customers. All my best - Chris Reich; Rochester, New York --- On Mon, 9/28/09, Chris Friesen cfrie...@nortel.com wrote: From: Chris Friesen cfrie...@nortel.com Subject: Re: Market research for new PowerPC system To: Konstantinos Margaritis mar...@codex.gr Cc: linuxppc-...@lists.ozlabs.org, debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org, opensuse-...@opensuse.org Date: Monday, September 28, 2009, 7:01 PM On 09/26/2009 05:38 AM, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: I'm considering funding the design production of a new PowerPC system (well, the motherboard, the rest are typical pc stuff and a case). It might be interesting as a low-power system. For a development box, this looks more interesting: http://www.fixstars.com/en/products/powerstation/specs.html $1250 USD gets you two dual-core 2.5GHz 970MP chips. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-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: Proper partitioning
Linux on a powerpc machine needs no partitions above and beyond what it needs on the Intel platform you're used to. If however, your powerpc machine is a New World Apple (almost anything made since 1999) then the Apple platform needs two partitions more. Fortunately, Debian sets this up for you automatically (and correctly) when the partitioner is run during installation. They appear as the first two partitions on the disk; you don't even have to ask for them. It is my practice to leave the first two partitions untouched. The first is the Apple bit-map of disk use. The second is the Open Firmware equivalent of the master boot record. The third one I designate as /. After that, I assign separate partitions as /usr, /var, /tmp, /home, and swap. This is the classic posix way of doing things. The installer offers you other options on how to do this. If you're not yet prepared to set up your own partitioning scheme, the defaults the installer offers will work just fine. All my best, - Chris Reich; Rochester, New York twittername: chrisreich --- On Wed, 8/19/09, Jason Hsu jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com wrote: From: Jason Hsu jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com Subject: Proper partitioning To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 10:10 AM What are the appropriate partitions for using Debian on a PowerPC? So far, my partitioning experience has been limited to Puppy Linux and Damn Small Linux on a PC. Does a PowerPC require certain things that a PC does not? What partitions are you using on your PowerPC? -- Jason Hsu jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Xorg does not detect nvidia card
The issue, Andrzej, is that Lenny is not autodetecting anything at all. Everything in 'xorg.conf' is generic, the nv driver is not activated, nor is any other driver. I'm asking for a way to force the activation. - Chris; Rochester, New York --- On Sun, 3/22/09, Andrzej Mendel andrzej.men...@gmail.com wrote: From: Andrzej Mendel andrzej.men...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Xorg does not detect nvidia card To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, March 22, 2009, 7:00 AM -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Bigguy pisze: Under Etch this worked fine with a minor modification but... under Lenny, clean install on Power Mac G4, the contents of the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf indicate only generic devices are employed for keyboard, mouse, video and monitor. The install should have detected my Nvidia GeForce 2 MX card and allowed me to edit the item that was problematic under Etch. How can I force Lenny to detect the video card and monitor, as Etch did? - Chris; Rochester, New York Lenny's Xserver is supposed to autodetect devices at runtime which means that there is no need to define them in xorg.conf as long as autodetection does it job well. You may modify xorg.cong if you wish to override autodetection results. - -- Cheers! Andrzej Mendel -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknGGlAACgkQqB4jXo6ZLCTpRwCfWiFS/3ATpf8d8CzahpgwJNix tqcAn0kSL8GuuQNAx8l2ILECMkdf/Wsq =VYRg -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-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: Xorg does not detect nvidia card
After deeper web searching, I've discovered that a bug report has been filed for the nv driver. Ubuntu users are also reporting the issue. Thanks for your help; I'll standby for a bug-fix. All my best - Chris; Rochester, New York --- On Sun, 3/22/09, Wartan Hachaturow wartan.hachatu...@gmail.com wrote: From: Wartan Hachaturow wartan.hachatu...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Xorg does not detect nvidia card To: Chris Bigguy bigguy...@yahoo.com Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, March 22, 2009, 10:37 AM On 3/22/09, Chris Bigguy bigguy...@yahoo.com wrote: The issue, Andrzej, is that Lenny is not autodetecting anything at all. Everything in 'xorg.conf' is generic, the nv driver is not activated, nor is any other driver. I'm asking for a way to force the activation. Chris, could you please attach xorg's log file along with lspci output and machine description? -- Regards, Wartan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-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
Xorg does not detect nvidia card
Under Etch this worked fine with a minor modification but... under Lenny, clean install on Power Mac G4, the contents of the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf indicate only generic devices are employed for keyboard, mouse, video and monitor. The install should have detected my Nvidia GeForce 2 MX card and allowed me to edit the item that was problematic under Etch. How can I force Lenny to detect the video card and monitor, as Etch did? - Chris; Rochester, New York -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: adobe flash
- On Mon, 2/23/09, Javier Serrano Polo jas...@terra.es wrote: How about gnash for ppc? Is that ready for prime-time yet? - Chris Reich; Rochester, New York From: Javier Serrano Polo jas...@terra.es Subject: Re: adobe flash To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, February 23, 2009, 11:57 AM How do I install the flash plug in for ice weasel... There's no native plugin for Linux yet. The adobe x86 plugin does work but the support framework was rejected for lenny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Can't get xorg working on iBook - Help please!
On my Power Mac G4 I had to do this: edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf; change the value of the Option “UseFBDev” from “true” to “false” and everything began to magically work. All my best - Chris; Rochester, New York Soundbytes.org --- On Wed, 12/31/08, Bob Lounsbury boblounsb...@gmail.com wrote: From: Bob Lounsbury boblounsb...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Can't get xorg working on iBook - Help please! To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, December 31, 2008, 12:22 PM On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Amit Uttamchandani amit.ut...@gmail.com wrote: I tried this option and I didn't get any error messages and X seemed to start with the typical X mouse. There were a few of warnings, but no errors (I attached the log). However, now when I try to run 'gnome-session' as a normal user I get: ** (gnome-session:3719): WARNING**: Cannot open display This a good sign I guess. At least X is starting up. I am not too familiar with how gnome starts up since I don't use it but try starting gdm as a normal user. See how that goes. So when X starts what do you see after the typical X mouse. Have you tried running xclock? If that starts and you do see a clock then I guess its simply a gnome configuration issue. I'm too new to this type of configuration (more time using debian, that just worked). How do you start an 'xclock'? I've had about enough of arch linux at this point and am so so close to giving up. It seems to be just one problem after another with this distro. I actually learned about ARCH linux PPC from your post and I've always wanted to try it. I will be installing it on my desktop PPC machine soon. Great. Maybe you can give me some pointers if it all works for you. I also had tough time just getting arch linux installed in the first place, which is part of the reason why I'm getting a little frustrated. Besides the three outstanding errors I'm getting, now that X seems to be working. I would still appreciate any help you may have though. Don't give up :) That's part of the fun with trying a fairly new distro (to PPC at least). I remember having a lot of trouble with r128 with Lenny but it finally ended up working after a lot of trial and errors. I think I'm making progress so I'll keep hacking away. Thanks, /Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-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: Debian on a Thinkpad Power Series 820
FWIW I have used both the 4.0r5 multi-arch, 4.0r5 net install, and 4.0r5 Xfce to install Debian successfully on a Power Mac G4 tower. It takes a few tricks from the magic bag, but I can confirm that the Debain disks work 'as advertised'. All my best - Chris Reich; Rochester, New York listen to Soundbytes at Soundbytes.org or from iTunes under Sound Bytes --- On Thu, 11/20/08, Pedro Rey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Pedro Rey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Debian on a Thinkpad Power Series 820 To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008, 7:24 AM Hello, I'm trying to install Debian on a Thinkpad Power Series 820 machine PReP architecture with a 603e PowerPC processor, with no luck at the moment. So far, I've tried to boot the 4.0_r5 install CD, but the laptop hangs while booting. It does show the IBM ThinkPad Power Series logo with audio sounds. Then the CD drive starts to work as if it was booting from the CD. After a while the Power Series logo disappears from screen... and nothing else happens. The drive stops reading and the machine hangs. Currently, the laptop is running AIX 4.2.1 without any problems. I've gone through the Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC PReP Page, but I haven't been able to follow the instructions described. Could somebody point me info on installing Debian on this machine? Or maybe info on debugging boot problems with 4.05r install CD? I don´t know how to get those messages, which I assume it is spitting somewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
