Re: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

2006-11-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 26 November 2006 19:25, Johannes Berg wrote: During installation. How often does one install? Well, it does take a while :) Though when I installed mine, the So you have such a machine :) Could you please test, if those noisy fans are made silent with d-i RC1 and with the

Re: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

2006-11-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 26 November 2006 15:09, Sven Luther wrote: currently shiping powerpc hardware are : IBM pseries : not really supported, patch sitting without comment since months, early work lost because of svn commit conflicts. raise the bug severity? which bug#, btw? Outstanding

Re: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

2006-11-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 26 November 2006 15:45, Alex Fernandez wrote: One of the selling points of Free Software in general, and Debian in particular, is that the people doing the coding are the people in charge. Right. The people doing the vast majority of work on the debian-installer, which runs on

Re: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

2006-11-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 12:08:09PM +0100, Holger Levsen a écrit : Could you please test, if those noisy fans are made silent with d-i RC1 No need to test, they are not: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2006/11/msg00789.html with the current daily-builds and tell us the results. (You

Re: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.24_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2006-11-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 27 November 2006 18:38, Michael Schmitz wrote: I see. Is the installer smart enough to pull packages from more than one archive? Yes. During build time it looks for local udebs which will be included in the cd-image. regards, Holger pgpyCjvVeSRTS.pgp Description:

Re: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

2006-11-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 12:08:09PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Sunday 26 November 2006 19:25, Johannes Berg wrote: During installation. How often does one install? Well, it does take a while :) Though when I installed mine, the So you have such a machine :) Could you please

Re: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

2006-11-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 12:18:54PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Sunday 26 November 2006 15:45, Alex Fernandez wrote: One of the selling points of Free Software in general, and Debian in particular, is that the people doing the coding are the people in charge. Right. The people

Re: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

2006-11-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 12:17:07PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Sunday 26 November 2006 15:09, Sven Luther wrote: currently shiping powerpc hardware are : IBM pseries : not really supported, patch sitting without comment since months, early work lost because of svn commit

Re: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.24_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2006-11-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 12:25:27PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Monday 27 November 2006 18:38, Michael Schmitz wrote: I see. Is the installer smart enough to pull packages from more than one archive? Yes. During build time it looks for local udebs which will be included in the

Re: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.24_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2006-11-30 Thread Michael Schmitz
I see. Is the installer smart enough to pull packages from more than one archive? Yes. During build time it looks for local udebs which will be included in the cd-image. That's not what I was asking - during run (install) time, there is no way to pull udebs off the net then, I gather?

Re: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.24_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2006-11-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 30 November 2006 15:49, you wrote: That's not what I was asking - during run (install) time, there is no way to pull udebs off the net then, I gather? If you use your own mirror and modify that, you can. It's even explained in the d-i developer documentation how to do this, as

Re: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

2006-11-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 30 November 2006 12:20, Charles Plessy wrote: No need to test, they are not: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2006/11/msg00789.html Ok. I will add info about this in the errata then. On the other hand, I recommend to test wether they also stay silent on the installed

Re: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

2006-11-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 30 November 2006 15:30, Sven Luther wrote: #394970: finish-install: [powerpc64] Add support for IBM serial I didn't, because [1, 2 3 - basically no time] And then you complain, that other people don't find the time to reply to the bugreport. Can't you imagine, that they

g5 imacs now silent?

2006-11-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, this bug was originally about building certain windfarm drivers into the kernel instead of modules, but it seems, that this was a red herring and the current kernel in sid now includes working modules to turn the G5 fans silent. If this is correct, this bug can be closed. Is it correct?

Re: bug in cpufreqd?

2006-11-30 Thread leandro noferini
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Uwe Steinmann) writes: [...] Same here. This is on an iBook. Also here is on an iBook g4 last generation. I can't exactly tell when it occurs. For me always when I try to use the computer without charge. Definitely not right after booting but rather later when the

Re: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.24_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2006-11-30 Thread Michael Schmitz
On Thursday 30 November 2006 15:49, you wrote: That's not what I was asking - during run (install) time, there is no way to pull udebs off the net then, I gather? If you use your own mirror and modify that, you can. It's even explained in the d-i developer documentation how to do this, as

Re: bug in cpufreqd?

2006-11-30 Thread Michael Schmitz
Same here. This is on an iBook. Also here is on an iBook g4 last generation. I can't exactly tell when it occurs. For me always when I try to use the computer without charge. Definitely not right after booting but rather later when the iBook goes on battery and back on AC. You guys

Re: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

2006-11-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 04:16:42PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Thursday 30 November 2006 15:30, Sven Luther wrote: #394970: finish-install: [powerpc64] Add support for IBM serial I didn't, because [1, 2 3 - basically no time] And then you complain, that other people don't

Re: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.24_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2006-11-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 04:07:08PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Thursday 30 November 2006 15:49, you wrote: That's not what I was asking - during run (install) time, there is no way to pull udebs off the net then, I gather? If you use your own mirror and modify that, you can. It's

Re: g5 imacs now silent?

2006-11-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 04:24:07PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, this bug was originally about building certain windfarm drivers into the kernel instead of modules, but it seems, that this was a red herring and the current kernel in sid now includes working modules to turn the G5 fans

Re: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

2006-11-30 Thread Fabio Tranchitella
* 2006-11-30 18:05, Sven Luther wrote: On Thursday 30 November 2006 15:30, Sven Luther wrote: #394970: finish-install: [powerpc64] Add support for IBM serial I didn't, because [1, 2 3 - basically no time] And then you complain, that other people don't find the time to reply

Re: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

2006-11-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 30 November 2006 18:21, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: * Holger, Frans and who others involved, could you please stop to reply to Sven's non-technical e-mail messages? It surely do not help anybody. Indeed, I did regret sending the previous mail in this thread to the list and

Re: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

2006-11-30 Thread Fabio Tranchitella
* 2006-11-30 19:31, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Thursday 30 November 2006 18:21, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: * Holger, Frans and who others involved, could you please stop to reply to Sven's non-technical e-mail messages? It surely do not help anybody. Indeed, I did regret sending

Re: bug in cpufreqd?

2006-11-30 Thread leandro noferini
Michael Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] You guys are aware that cpufreqd has been the source of problems (read: kernel lockup) on G4 before, Until now it worked perfectly for me. and that there is powernowd which just works fine on G4? I did not know this: I will give a try. --

Re: g5 imacs now silent?

2006-11-30 Thread Étienne Bersac
Hi, Beware not to confuse iMac G5 rev AB and rev C (among PowerMac G5). iMac G5 rev C (chip PowerMac 12,1) do not have yet their windfarm driver. Benh told that he began the work on this driver but has difficulties to get access to de device. Benh, can you confirm ? Étienne. -- Verso l'Alto !

Re: bug in cpufreqd?

2006-11-30 Thread Bertrand Mingaud
I have the same problem on an iBook G4 on a fresh etch installation. The problem occurs when booting and then later on AC plug/unplug. Bertrand -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#397942: g5 imacs now silent?

2006-11-30 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 23:04 +0100, Étienne Bersac wrote: Hi, Beware not to confuse iMac G5 rev AB and rev C (among PowerMac G5). iMac G5 rev C (chip PowerMac 12,1) do not have yet their windfarm driver. Benh told that he began the work on this driver but has difficulties to get access to de

Re: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.24_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2006-11-30 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 05:48:55PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 11:03:41AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: Hi fellow debian-powerpc users, Once more, some influent folk in the debian-boot team, who didn't even want to be named, is trying to stop me from working on

Re: linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.24_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2006-11-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 01:53:01PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 05:48:55PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 11:03:41AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: Hi fellow debian-powerpc users, Once more, some influent folk in the debian-boot team, who didn't