Re: failed to install a debian netinst (etch) on an old G4 (400mhz)

2005-12-07 Thread Nicolas Hognon
> I think that you have to tell partman that the partition #2 is a neworld bootstrap partition. Just select its as if you wanted to put a filesystem on it, bootstrap is in the list. Partman will then format it, and yaboot should cease to complain. ok ... it seems a good solution bu if I sele

SiS Chipset Support

2005-12-07 Thread Raghu
Hi All, I wanted to know if there is a Debain Linux support for the chipset SiS741 (North Bridge) and SiS963L/964 (South Bridge), if yes where can I locate it ? Thanks in Advance. Warm Regards, Raghu. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail

Re: remote control dual booting OSX / Debian

2005-12-07 Thread Rich Johnson
On Dec 7, 2005, at 5:34 PM, David Pye wrote: On Wednesday 07 December 2005 17:16, Rich Johnson wrote: Debian version: usage "sudo reboot-from " reboot-from: $! /bin/sh nvsetenv reboot-device hd:$1,:tbxi shutdown -r now OSX version: usage "sudo reboot-from " reboot-from:

Re: failed to install a debian netinst (etch) on an old G4 (400mhz)

2005-12-07 Thread Charles Plessy
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 06:40:04PM +0100, Nicolas Hognon wrote : > Hello, Hello, > 3. here the partition table > IDE3 master (hdc) - 20.6 GB IBM-DTLA-305020 > #1 32.3 KB Apple > #2 1.0 MB boot untitled > #3 19.7 GB ext3 untitled / > #4 873.7 MB swap swap swap > yaboot-installer: inf

Kernel Modules Yosemite G3

2005-12-07 Thread Robin Edwards
Hey what kernel modules do i need for a yosemite g3? mainly interested in sound, video accelleration and any mac specific ones. using the latest 2.6

Re: remote control dual booting OSX / Debian

2005-12-07 Thread David Pye
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 17:16, Rich Johnson wrote: > Debian version: usage "sudo reboot-from " > reboot-from: > $! /bin/sh > nvsetenv reboot-device hd:$1,:tbxi > shutdown -r now > > OSX version: usage "sudo reboot-from " > reboot-from: > $!/bin/sh > nvram boot

Re: Power Mac G3 beige : Problem with boot

2005-12-07 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> > Miboot allows bootting from the firmware (like quik) or from a diskette? > > From a floppy disk. You can also try putting a vmlinux.coff zImage on a floppy and boot taht directly from OF Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Can't install, no KBD (G4 Cube)

2005-12-07 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 02:12:08PM -0500, Rich Johnson wrote: > > On Dec 7, 2005, at 12:27 PM, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > >> > >>So, yeah, I'd say it doesn't provide a clear description. > > > >Here a draft on the possiblities involved. If my understanding of the > >issues are correct, the installation

Re: Can't install, no KBD (G4 Cube)

2005-12-07 Thread Rich Johnson
On Dec 7, 2005, at 12:27 PM, Hans Ekbrand wrote: So, yeah, I'd say it doesn't provide a clear description. Here a draft on the possiblities involved. If my understanding of the issues are correct, the installation manual needs some extensive rewriting. There are three different stages A, B a

BootX, beige G3 and kernel 2.6

2005-12-07 Thread Frédéric Massot
Hi, After having tried without success to boot with Quik, I test with BootX (ver. 1.2.2). Linux boot already with BootX and the kernel (2.2.20-pmac) of the Woody installer (linux.bin and ramdisk.image.gz). I compiled a kernel 2.6.14 with the command make-kpkg and I have to copy the files vml

Re: Re: Powermac G5 yaboot install failed

2005-12-07 Thread john fisher
Thanks guys. Shyamal, it just so happens that /dev/sda4 is correct for me too. On my box its the root though. I just didn't understand the rest of your directions, and I am not used to the Apple partition. So I am probably *still* misunderstanding. Ken, I haven't tried "ofpath /dev/sda4" but it m

failed to install a debian netinst (etch) on an old G4 (400mhz)

2005-12-07 Thread Nicolas Hognon
Hello, I already succeed to install a debian netinst on my pc. Recently I get an old power mac G4 with mac os 9 ... so I try to install a debian netinst from a bootable cd on it. But it failed during installation of yaboot. I not familiar with mac and their partition system ... perhpas the probl

remote control dual booting OSX / Debian

2005-12-07 Thread Rich Johnson
I've found these two scripts useful for remotely switching between os's on a dual-boot new-world mac. The scripts require a sudo environment. They run from the command line, and do not require access to the system (yaboot) console. After the scripts are two aliases I use to have a fool-p

Re: Can't install, no KBD (G4 Cube)

2005-12-07 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 06:27:03PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 07:51:41AM -0500, Rich Johnson wrote: [...] > > That the hd-media installer doesn't support even _ONE_ filesystem > > native to the machine it's intended to run from is absurd. What is > > causing this?

Re: Debian install on biege G3

2005-12-07 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 03:55:21PM +, David Pead wrote: > > No, as Simon pointed out, there is known, unsolved problems with quik > > and (some of?) the beige G3:s. Focus on BootX for now. > > OK, will do > > > So restart the installation, press ctrl-alt-F2 and to get a > > shell. > > Have

Re: Can't install, no KBD (G4 Cube)

2005-12-07 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 07:51:41AM -0500, Rich Johnson wrote: > > > >It sounds as if you used the hd-media images. My understanding is that > >if you want to install over the net, you should use the netboot images > >instead of the hd-media images. (Netboot does not necessarily mean > >that the ima

Re: Suggestions for modifications in debian-installer manual (oldworld specific parts)

2005-12-07 Thread David Pead
On 6/12/05 11:33 pm, "Hans Ekbrand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > G3, it appears that quik cannot make the hard disk bootable. So BootX > is required on thoose models. > > end snippet from boot-drive-files.xml Small typo. "thoose" should be those DP ;-) --

Re: Debian install on biege G3

2005-12-07 Thread David Pead
> No, as Simon pointed out, there is known, unsolved problems with quik > and (some of?) the beige G3:s. Focus on BootX for now. OK, will do > So restart the installation, press ctrl-alt-F2 and to get a > shell. Have got the shell > Mount the MacOS-partition where BootX resides. Sorry, need

Did not manage to start the graphical installer on an iMac G5

2005-12-07 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi, I tried the latest graphical installer (december 7), but it failed to start the graphical system. Here is a sample of the logs: kernel: ioctl32(debconf:1234): Unknown cmd fd(6) cmd(0004700){00} arg(0f394e70) on /dev/fb/0 It is repeated with a different pid, so obviously the graphic system c

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-07 Thread Bin Zhang
On 12/7/05, Antonio-Miguel Corbi Bellot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El mié, 07-12-2005 a las 12:36 +0100, Michael Schmitz escribió: > > > > > > Softmac gave compilation errors that I managed to solve, but don't know > > > if this made the code not to work properly... > > > > I don't recall compile

Re: Can't install, no KBD (G4 Cube)

2005-12-07 Thread Rich Johnson
It sounds as if you used the hd-media images. My understanding is that if you want to install over the net, you should use the netboot images instead of the hd-media images. (Netboot does not necessarily mean that the images needed to boot is fetched from the net at boot time). The hd-media versi

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-07 Thread Antonio-Miguel Corbi Bellot
El mié, 07-12-2005 a las 12:36 +0100, Michael Schmitz escribió: > > > > Softmac gave compilation errors that I managed to solve, but don't know > > if this made the code not to work properly... > > I don't recall compile errors in softmac - there's a bunch of warnings > about unavailable symbols b

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-07 Thread Johannes Berg
On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 13:19 +0100, Antonio-Miguel Corbi Bellot wrote: > > On firmware load (after ifconfig eth1 up) I get a warning about a possible > > driver bug in bcm43xx_phy_setupg() (line 333 bcm43xx_phy.c) but the code > > seems to carry on successfully in that case. Do you see something li

Re: ESD blocks Gnome and gnome applications

2005-12-07 Thread Simon Wegler
Am 06.12.2005 um 12:58 schrieb Otavio Salvador: Simon Wegler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: You may want to try out Polypaudio [1] by Lennart Poettering. It is a drop-in ESD replacement with a sanitized architecture. Unfortunately, polypaudio is dead upstream :( It'll be remove from De

Re: Can't Compile Mac on Linux Modules for kernel 2.6.14.3

2005-12-07 Thread Laura Abbott
I appologize for leaving this out. mol-modules-source: 0.9.70-20 currently using debian testing/unstable, with debhelper version 5.0.8 On 12/7/05, Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I recently updated my kernel, and as such I need to update my modules > > for MOL. I downloaded the sou

Re: [ANN] Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered

2005-12-07 Thread Michael Schmitz
> Ok, bad news... > > After trying bcm43xx for a while I 'svn up'ed the driver to revision 808 > and also upgraded wireless-tools to version 27+28pre11 and > softmac...damn! > > Softmac gave compilation errors that I managed to solve, but don't know > if this made the code not to work properly...

Re: Re: Powermac G5 yaboot install failed

2005-12-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:02:48PM -0800, john fisher wrote: > Shamal, the only two netinstalls that will load are the latest testing, > run as expert64 and YDL's run as install-g5. The older sarge stuff just > crashes. Do I have the wrong Sarge stuff? i.e. is there a 64bit version > I should use?

Re: Can't install, no KBD (G4 Cube)

2005-12-07 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 08:19:48PM -0500, Rich Johnson wrote: > > >You were. I stupidly assumed that d-i was changed between march and > >june when sarge was released. > > Well, I _tried_ the testing/etch installer. It managed to activate > the keyboard, but it took a long time (>5sec) after t

Re: MythTV PPC

2005-12-07 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > I have talk to alioth, and they have approved another project. So > > here it is! > > > > Ill talk to the project admins about including a PPC build. > > > > http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-mythtv > > Can you add me as member (user luther), go into admin and add user or > something such.

Re: Can't Compile Mac on Linux Modules for kernel 2.6.14.3

2005-12-07 Thread Michael Schmitz
> I recently updated my kernel, and as such I need to update my modules > for MOL. I downloaded the sources for the mol modules and I tried to > compile but to no avail. Here is the output I get when trying to Please report the precise version of the mol modules source package. Michael

Re: undefined reference to `xmon_wants_key'

2005-12-07 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> [...] > -#if defined(CONFIG_XMON) && !defined(CONFIG_PPC64) > if (len == 4 && data[1] == 0x2c) { > extern int xmon_wants_key, xmon_adb_keycode; > if (xmon_wants_key) { > @@ -1379,7 +1403,6 @@ next: >

Re: MythTV PPC

2005-12-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 06:56:55AM +0100, Inge Eidem wrote: > Hi everyone > > I have talk to alioth, and they have approved another project. So > here it is! > > Ill talk to the project admins about including a PPC build. > > http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-mythtv Can you add me as memb