Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Kernel panic booting minimal iso on dual G5
Hello > I just picked up a dual G5 (the 2.7 GHz flavor) and I'm interested in > running gentoo on it as well as OS X. I've been using x86 and > x86_gentoo for quite some time now (back since 1.2). > However the ppc64 minimal iso from the mirrors gives a kernel panic > during bootup on this hardware, with the call stack indicating a > driver probe of some sort. I think that the 2.7 GHz machines need a newer kernel. You might want to look into the ChangeLog of linux-2.6.12-rc5, I know that there are fixes for exactly those machines in it. You can then build such kernel and netboot it. If you can't build one, you can ask in #gentoo-ppc64 on Freenode. Greets, Michael -- Gentoo Linux Developer using m0n0wall | http://hansmi.ch/ I dunno, I dream in Perl sometimes... -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgpW70I3NhB4L.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] env-update
Hello > Before updating portage there was an extra line in the output too: > * Caching service dependencies... [ok] > Now its gone. Things seems working ok, but I wonder if this is normal, > or not... That's normal. "rc" automatically caches the dependencies now. Greets, Michael -- Gentoo Linux Developer using m0n0wall | http://hansmi.ch/ No, that's wrong too. Now there's a race condition between the rm and the mv. Hmm, I need more coffee. -- Guy Maor on Debian Bug#25228 pgp73lrqmeGGH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Compile error on IDE Power Mac driver
Hello Charles > CC drivers/ide/ppc/pmac.o > drivers/ide/ppc/pmac.c: In function 'pmac_ide_setup_dma' Looking at drivers/ide/ppc/pmac.c reveals that this function is only declared when CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PMAC is set. Greets, Michael -- Gentoo Linux Developer using m0n0wall | http://hansmi.ch/ You are in a maze of little twisting passages, all alike. pgpPN1F8vsKbZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Compile error on IDE Power Mac driver
Hello Charles Sorry, I looked wrong before. > CC drivers/ide/ppc/pmac.o > drivers/ide/ppc/pmac.c: In function 'pmac_ide_setup_dma' > 2174 error: '__ide_dma_off_quietly' undeclared > 2175 error: '__ide_dma_on' undeclared > 2184 error: '__ide_dma_timeout' undeclared You should set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI, see drivers/ide/ide-dma.c. Greets, Michael -- Gentoo Linux Developer using m0n0wall | http://hansmi.ch/ Debian is the Jedi operating system: "Always two there are, a master and an apprentice". -- Simon Richter on debian-devel pgpxm2AmC1HTI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Audio installation
Hello Matthew On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 07:32:17AM +, Matthew Polashek wrote: > I'm interested in making my Powerbook G4 1.5 17" a dual boot Gentoo Which model exactly? > Also, I'd like to use a kernel with the Ingo Molnar realtime > preemption patch. I don't know that specific patch, but preemption on PowerPC isn't what you actually want. It causes programs to crash because of a corrupted cache. It used to work when one enabled SMP, but I'm not sure wether this is still the case. Greets, Michael -- Gentoo Linux developer, http://hansmi.ch/, http://forkbomb.ch/ In most countries selling harmful things like drugs is punishable. Then howcome people can sell Microsoft software and go unpunished? (By [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hasse Skrifvars) pgpKZkq1W5cZQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Audio installation
Hello Matthew On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 12:02:19PM +, Matthew Polashek wrote: > I've got the Powerbook 17" G4 1.5 Ghz model. I think apple only one > with that monitor size and processor speed. Maybe, maybe not. It's not what I asked for. Read the output of "grep machine /proc/cpuinfo". There you'll find something like "PowerBook7,2" (the numbers are the important ones). I'm asking because on some models the sound is not yet supported. But there's a driver in development (snd-aoa, [1]). > Is there a way to run audio apps safely on a PPC processor using > Linux? I'm sure there is. You have always the source code at hand and can modify it to make it better. > Anyway, what would you suggest I do to get stable audio on a PPC? Unfortunately, I don't have much expierience with professional audio on any platform. Sound output works on my G5 and one of my PowerBooks while another one doesn't have its sound chip supported yet (but will with snd-aoa). Digital output is said not to work for now, but it's planned to be included in snd-aoa once they figure it out. Oh, and please learn how to quote. First and last warning from me. Greets, Michael [1] http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/snd-aoa.git/ -- Gentoo Linux developer, http://hansmi.ch/, http://forkbomb.ch/ Unix weanies are as bad at this as anyone. -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgpp4BCagAQ6r.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] pbbuttonsd question
Hello On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 11:24:05AM -0400, Eric Robertson wrote: > I am running gentoo on a 15" aluminum powerbook. Which exact model? grep machine /proc/cpuinfo Depending on that, you've the LMU behind the PMU or on I²C. Thanks, Michael -- Gentoo Linux developer, http://hansmi.ch/, http://forkbomb.ch/ A fanatic is a person who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. - Winston Churchill pgpUMegiyNoVN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] hda/hdc
Hello Randy On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 12:56:30PM -0500, Randy Barlow wrote: > I'm noticing that my hard drive seems to be showing up as hdc and the > cdrom as hda in the install cd environment. You might need CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_PMAC_ATA100FIRST in your kernel. Greets, Michael -- Gentoo Linux developer, http://hansmi.ch/, http://forkbomb.ch/ pgpzgCwgeDphT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] hda/hdc
Hello Randy On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 09:54:23PM -0500, Randy Barlow wrote: > is there a way to see what the dmesg was for a kernel that didn't > finish booting due to a kernel panic? Yes, netconsole as described in Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt. Greets, Michael -- Gentoo Linux developer, http://hansmi.ch/, http://forkbomb.ch/ pgpixy84offwz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] hda/hdc
Hello Randy On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 11:37:25AM -0500, Randy Barlow wrote: > OK - now I'm really baffled - I've tried again but this time I used > genkernel. However, even the genkerneled kernel can't seem to detect my > hard drive! This time I was allowed to drop to a shell and the only hd* > was hda, my cdrom. Can you please post the kernel output, which you gather using netconsole, on an http server? I guess your kernel is missing some option, but I'm not sure which. Did you only check /dev/hd* or also what dmesg said? > The thing that's killing me is that the gentoo boot cd is obviously > able to do it, and I even copied the config from that cd over as per > the genkernel instructions, still to no avail. You copied the actually running config from /proc/config.gz? Greets, Michael -- Gentoo Linux developer, http://hansmi.ch/, http://forkbomb.ch/ pgpKoPuFHS7d8.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Mac disk partitions
Hi On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 03:36:29PM -0400, A. Khattri wrote: > According to mac-fdisk it appears to already have a boot partition on it. > So can I skip the creation of a boot partition and use the existing one? > /dev/sda2 Apple_Bootstrap untitled 2048 @ 64 ( > 1.0M) NewWorld bootblock This is the 800k bootstrap partition, used by yaboot alone (at least within Linux) and not to be formatted or mounted anywhere. On PowerPC machines, you shouldn't create a /boot partition. Read the docs, please. Greets, Michael -- Gentoo Linux developer, http://hansmi.ch/, http://forkbomb.ch/ pgpmtp6yaRfT0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Missing modules after kernel upgrade
Hi On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 09:23:36PM -0600, darren kirby wrote: > So I have my answer. It raises another question though: Am I the only one who > has modules go AWOL when doing "make vmlinux && make modules_install". If so, > why? Most proably the "modules" target isn't a dependency of vmlinux. "make vmlinux modules && make modules_install" should do it if you want (untested). However, "make && make modules_install" makes sure everything needed is built. Greets, Michael -- Gentoo Linux developer, http://hansmi.ch/, http://forkbomb.ch/ pgpyXMpXs05Jh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] KDE completely broken
Hi On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 09:12:43PM -0600, darren kirby wrote: > It certainly doesn't like the fact my binaries are stripped. Here's > what I could come up with: You need to recompile it with FEATURES="nostrip" and possibly USE="debug". Don't forget to remove -fomit-frame-pointer from C{,XX}FLAGS, in case you have it. Depending on where the crash happens, you may have to recompile not only KDE, but also other packages from KDE's dependencies. Greets, Michael -- http://hansmi.ch/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list