debian-installer on ppc64

2003-11-14 Thread Anton Blanchard
Hi, We tested debian-installer (daily build from a day ago) on a ppc64 box and found a few issues. To keep life interesting, we also used a 2.6 kernel. 1. Installer requires devfs support. In 2.6 devfs is pretty much deprecated, so it would be nice if d-i could handle a non devfs kernel.

powerpc 2.4.22-3 kernel packages ready.

2003-11-14 Thread Sven Luther
Hello, I have prepared a new version of the powerpc kernel packages (2.4.22-3). Again, they are still hold up in NEW, until a ftp-master deigns to find time for looking at it or at least provide feedback about what is wrong with them, but i have also made them available in the meantime at :

Re: apple hardware docs.

2003-11-14 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
In any case, what is extremely ridiculous is that for many stupid things like fans, thermal control or microphone/sound, they have *nix stuff programmed, BUT they still don't release it under the GPL, so you need a really good bunch of gurus to hack the stuff up. Actually, the complete

Re: debian-installer on ppc64

2003-11-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 08:47:12PM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote: Hi, We tested debian-installer (daily build from a day ago) on a ppc64 box and found a few issues. To keep life interesting, we also used a 2.6 kernel. 1. Installer requires devfs support. In 2.6 devfs is pretty much

Request for 17 PowerBook install recommendations

2003-11-14 Thread Barry C . Hawkins
List, I am sure that the message title alone may solicit deep sighs, rolling of the eyes, and cries of not again!. I had installed Debian Woody on a Titanium PowerBook G4 500MHz (the Titanium II, I believe) and was amazed at how well it went and at how much info I found that really hit the

Re: powerpc 2.4.22-3 kernel packages ready.

2003-11-14 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi I just tested the small flavour on pmac and it works well. All the issues present in -2 seem to be resolved. Thanks for your work on the powerpc kernel. gaudenz

Re: debian-installer on ppc64

2003-11-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:22:27AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: 1. Installer requires devfs support. In 2.6 devfs is pretty much deprecated, so it would be nice if d-i could handle a non devfs kernel. It doesnt look like there are too many places that care. The initrd had an empty

Re: debian-installer on ppc64

2003-11-14 Thread Thorsten Sauter
* Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-11-14 11:22]: | 3. No fdisk found. For some reason only mac-fdisk was available in the | install image. | | Same as above, d-i doesn't support subarches yet. That said, parted | should be available, and normally you should be able to use partitioner |

Re: powerpc 2.4.22-3 kernel packages ready.

2003-11-14 Thread Thorsten Sauter
Sven! * Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-11-14 10:55]: [...] thanks for the good job. Hopping it will escape from NEW asap :-) Bye Thorsten -- Thorsten Sauter [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Is there life after /sbin/halt -p?) signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: powerpc 2.4.22-3 kernel packages ready.

2003-11-14 Thread Christian Leimer
Hi! I tested powerpc-smp kernel and modules on Umax S900 running sid. No problem with quik boots fine. But I miss CONFIG_HIGHMEM to support all ram and the dri module for the voodoo3. And I can not print with cups. Dont know why there are no errors in the logs. The system feels really slow

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2003-11-14 Thread Dane Brint
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Re: powerpc 2.4.22-3 kernel packages ready.

2003-11-14 Thread Jason E. Stewart
Christian Leimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And I can not print with cups. Dont know why there are no errors in the logs. I, too, cannot print from cups anymore and don't have a clue why - no log messages help - but I'm using 2.4.20-benh1... I'd like to know how to debug this. jas.

Re: powerpc 2.4.22-3 kernel packages ready.

2003-11-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 06:25:59PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Hi I just tested the small flavour on pmac and it works well. Cool. All the issues present in -2 seem to be resolved. As the changelog says :)) Thanks for your work on the powerpc kernel. No problem. Now if only the

2002 iBook / Xfree

2003-11-14 Thread Nathan
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2002 iBook / Xfree 4.2 artefacts

2003-11-14 Thread Nathan
(sorry about the previous message, hit 'send' by mistake) X is behaving very oddly on my 2002 700Mhz iBook (radeon m6 LW) running 2.6.0-test9/unstable. At first, it worked without any problems (aside from DRI hard-locking the system, but that's probably a kernel issue). However, after several

Re: powerpc 2.4.22-3 kernel packages ready.

2003-11-14 Thread Rolf Brudeseth
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:55:21AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Hello, I have prepared a new version of the powerpc kernel packages (2.4.22-3). Again, they are still hold up in NEW, until a ftp-master deigns to find time for looking at it or at least provide feedback about what is wrong with

Re: powerpc 2.4.22-3 kernel packages ready.

2003-11-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 04:29:28PM -0600, Rolf Brudeseth wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:55:21AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: Hello, I have prepared a new version of the powerpc kernel packages (2.4.22-3). Again, they are still hold up in NEW, until a ftp-master deigns to find time for