Re: 64bit status report : biarch toolchain and ppc64 debian kernel.

2005-08-18 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 01:45:56PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: At Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:30:33 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Yeah, things are not as fast as we hope, but we are a volunteer organisation, so we will see. But if in a month or so NPTL is not yet enabled, we will

Re: Weird display problems on wakeup from sleep (sometimes)

2005-08-18 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 18 2005, Ryan Lortie wrote: This list also seems to be one of the most populous places on the net for people running Linux on Apple hardware. Yes, this is one of the things that keep me subscribed on debian-powerpc, even when I am not using Debian on the powerpc box that I have here

Re: On the use of DVD recordable media (was: Re: DVD+R writing problems)

2005-08-18 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Brendon. First of all, thank you very much for your reply. On Aug 17 2005, Brendon Lloyd Higgins wrote: Rogério Brito wrote (Sunday 14 August 2005 2:06 pm): Anyway, just out of curiosity: are you able to read all the DVD discs that you burn on regular computer or standalone drives? I

Re: www.d.o: PowerPC installation pages need update (was: Some weirdness on debian release sites)

2005-08-18 Thread Frans Pop
Hello Shyamal, On Monday 15 August 2005 01:47, Shyamal Prasad wrote: Here is a proposed patch to index.wml that you might consider. A changelog would include Thanks very much for this patch; your changes look sane to me. Sorry for not replying earlier, but as the patch was a bit larger I

apt pinning ?

2005-08-18 Thread Mehul Sanghvi
'allo, I've got sarge running on my G3 BW. I would like to have clamav come from unstable, but everything else should continue to come from stable. My /etc/apt/preferences looks like the following: -- Package: *clamav* Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 1001 Package: spamc Pin:

[PATCH] Re: Weird display problems on wakeup from sleep (sometimes)

2005-08-18 Thread Martin Habets
Looks like the same issue I sometimes have. You have an ATI graphics card, right? If so, get the lcd_hack too that Ben H. wrote. If you get an error when running the tool, you may need the kernel patch from http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/01/msg00219.html Running the tool fixes the

Re: apt pinning ?

2005-08-18 Thread Kiko Piris
On 18/08/2005 at 05:30 -0400, Mehul Sanghvi wrote: I've got sarge running on my G3 BW. I would like to have clamav come from unstable, but everything else should continue to come from stable. I won't answer your question. But: why don't you just use volatile.debian.net ? -- Kiko

My iBook and Xserver

2005-08-18 Thread Brett Beeman
I'm running an old iBook G3 with a Rage Mobility video card and Xserver just refuses to work for me, I've posted this on the forums and someone suggested I put it on the mailing list. Anyone else have a problem running xserver, and if so, how did you fix it. All it gives me is a command

powerpc d-i daily builds reactivated, use 2.6.12 kernels, including 64bit kernels, miboot floppies dropped for now.

2005-08-18 Thread Sven Luther
Hello, Since the 2.6.12 powerpc kernel in the archive now support 64bit kernels, thanks to the work of the toolchain guys with regard to biarch on ppc, i have uploaded kernel .udebs and triggered new reorganised daily builds of the sid debian-installer images. I was forced to disable the floppy

Re: apt pinning ?

2005-08-18 Thread Mehul Sanghvi
On 8/18/05, Kiko Piris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18/08/2005 at 05:30 -0400, Mehul Sanghvi wrote: I've got sarge running on my G3 BW. I would like to have clamav come from unstable, but everything else should continue to come from stable. I won't answer your question. But:

Re: Weird display problems on wakeup from sleep (sometimes)

2005-08-18 Thread Joerg Sommer
Ryan Lortie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The jist of the problem is that on wake up from sleep my display is sometimes in a scrambled state. It's difficult to describe; there is a screenshot attached to the bug report. I can confirm this problem on a ibook G4 800MHz with the debian kernel 2.6.11.

Asante 802.11g card on 2.6.8?

2005-08-18 Thread vze26m98
Hi all- Got an Asante 5402-XG wifi card I'm trying to get to work on a Pismo/Linux 2.6.8. Seems like I'm pretty close, but so far no luck. Don't have another machine of any OS to test some things though... Looks like lspci finds the card and I've added the airport support modules, still no

Re: X.org (gdm?) stopped working

2005-08-18 Thread Bernhard Reiter
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 01:34:03AM +, Leandro Guimaraes Faria Corcete DUTRA wrote: What should I do next? I cringe at the thought of reinstalling XFree86 and Gnome 2.8... Try starting the X server from the console. Also look into the recent /var/log/X* files. ls -lrt /var/log/X* is

Re: My iBook and Xserver

2005-08-18 Thread Bernhard Reiter
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 07:32:41AM -0400, Brett Beeman wrote: I'm running an old iBook G3 with a Rage Mobility video card and Xserver just refuses to work for me Try starting it from the consol/command line and check out the messages. Anyone else have a problem running xserver, and if so,

Re: Asante 802.11g card on 2.6.8?

2005-08-18 Thread Dean Hamstead
two things a) the airport driver is the wrong driver for this card b) your kernel is getting towards being excessively old Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all- Got an Asante 5402-XG wifi card I'm trying to get to work on a Pismo/Linux 2.6.8. Seems like I'm pretty close, but so far no luck.

Re: 64bit status report : biarch toolchain and ppc64 debian kernel.

2005-08-18 Thread Albert Cahalan
On 8/18/05, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That brings us to the next step, what is the best way to get most libraries to build 64bit packages ? This would need some extensive change in the packaging stuff probably. As you know, there are two ways: a. Major hacking for each and every

Re: 64bit status report : biarch toolchain and ppc64 debian kernel.

2005-08-18 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 22:55 -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: On 8/18/05, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That brings us to the next step, what is the best way to get most libraries to build 64bit packages ? This would need some extensive change in the packaging stuff probably.

Re: 64bit status report : biarch toolchain and ppc64 debian kernel.

2005-08-18 Thread Albert Cahalan
On 8/19/05, Benjamin Herrenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 22:55 -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: On 8/18/05, Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That brings us to the next step, what is the best way to get most libraries to build 64bit packages ? This would need