Re: PowerPC request for Help

2006-05-07 Thread Sven Luther
CCing debian-boot since that is the best place for having this kind of discussion. None of them regularly reads debian-powerpc. On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 06:55:36AM -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm interested in actually contributing to

Re: packages held back?

2006-05-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 03:09:30PM -0700, Mike S wrote: replied privately to private stuff Now, onto the problem. I am not totally clear about the differences between apt-get and aptitude, but after updating my package list last night I get this The following packages have been kept

Usermodelinux for ppc

2006-05-07 Thread Saladino
Hi, After trying qemu I am now trying uml. I cannot compile it because it searches the subarch as powerpc and the Makefile that exists is Makefile-ppc, not Makefile-powerpc. May I have troubles if I do SUBARCH=ppc ? I am doing something wrong? Thanks for your time. Saladino

Re: packages held back?

2006-05-07 Thread Andrzej Mendel
Dnia 07-05-2006, nie o godzinie 11:40 +0200, Sven Luther napisaƂ(a): aptitude introduces another situation. It consider that you only really want those packages you personnaly asked to install, and will try to remove unused libraries if it finds them. Sadly, i don't believe aptitude will notice

Re: Usermodelinux for ppc

2006-05-07 Thread Stefano Melchior
On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 12:59:34PM +0200, Saladino wrote: Hi Saladino, After trying qemu I am now trying uml. I cannot compile it because it searches the subarch as powerpc and the Makefile that exists is Makefile-ppc, not Makefile-powerpc. May I have troubles if I do SUBARCH=ppc ? I am doing

Re: Usermodelinux for ppc

2006-05-07 Thread Saladino
On 5/7/06, Stefano Melchior [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 12:59:34PM +0200, Saladino wrote: Hi Saladino, After trying qemu I am now trying uml. I cannot compile it because it searches the subarch as powerpc and the Makefile that exists is Makefile-ppc, not Makefile-powerpc.

Re: Usermodelinux for ppc

2006-05-07 Thread Stefano Melchior
On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 02:50:24PM +0200, Saladino wrote: Hi Saladino, There were some try to create a uml patches for ppc, Chris Emerson did one for 2.4.6 and Aswin Tanugula for 2.6.12. I see. So, if I download the 2.6.12 kernel and apply the Tanugulas patch i could run uml in my actual

Re: Usermodelinux for ppc

2006-05-07 Thread Saladino
On 5/7/06, Stefano Melchior [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 02:50:24PM +0200, Saladino wrote: Hi Saladino, There were some try to create a uml patches for ppc, Chris Emerson did one for 2.4.6 and Aswin Tanugula for 2.6.12. I see. So, if I download the 2.6.12 kernel and apply

iMac Sleep

2006-05-07 Thread Jason Self
I'm sorry for having to post my question. My searches through Google and the Debian list archives returned no data on iMac power management. If my question's already answered somewhere I just didn't find it, a URL would make me happy. I've finished installing Debian Sarge 3.1r2 onto an old iMac

Re: Using kernel 2.6.17-rc2

2006-05-07 Thread leandro noferini
Bernhard Reiter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to use the kernel version as the subject, 2.6.17-rc2 with [...] these problems? As I wrote yesterday: 2.6.17-rc3 has sound again for me. Yes, also for me. My problem with rc2 and rc3 are that /dev/adb and /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid do

Re: iMac Sleep

2006-05-07 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
It's easy enough to enable to the Blank Screen screensaver (in KDE Control Center - Appearance Themes - Screen Saver), although the faint glow of the screen remains visible because the CRT is still consuming power. The iMac's use a weird display controller that doesn't react to normal