Re: How are CHRP bootinfo icons formatted?

On Sun, Jun 04, 2023 at 12:45:48AM -0400, Ben Westover wrote: > On 6/3/23 3:58 PM, Ben Westover wrote: > > I don't think I really did. All I did was guess that the colors are > > stored in some sort of 3,3,2 8 bit color format since that's what > > standard CHRP does. My method for converting RGB

Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p

On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 01:34:48PM +0200, Alexander Huemer wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 01:26:32PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 01:03:21PM +0200, Alexander Huemer wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 12:12:4

Re: Debian on IBM RS/6000 7248-43p

On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 01:03:21PM +0200, Alexander Huemer wrote: > Hi! > > On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 12:12:40PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hi Alexander! > > > > On Thu, 2023-05-11 at 12:01 +0200, Alexander Huemer wrote: > > > > CD-ROM based installation is supported for most

Re: Succes! Thanks!

Hi Riccardo, I'd like to restart my Pismo (got an SSD in 2014 when you could still find them with PATA interface). Could you please append (or attach) here a copy of your apt/sources.list to help people wanting to restart this kind of machine. TIA, Gabriel On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at

Re: yaboot installation media

On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 04:17:35PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 4:15 PM Sam Imberman wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I'm actually having more or less the same problem with my Powerbook G4 > > Aluminum. > > I am using the image from > >

Re: Give away: iBook G4

On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 03:20:03PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > Hi folks > > I found an old iBook G4, unknown variant, in my pile of older > electronics. Could someone make use of that? > > I would need to check if it actually works and that no data is left on > it. It's located near

Re: enabling/disabling AltiVec in Firefox and derived browsers (ArcticFox)

On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 12:22:22PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > --- > crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 8:39 AM Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > > Beware that VSX is not Altivec. Altivec was called V

Re: enabling/disabling AltiVec in Firefox and derived browsers (ArcticFox)

On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 11:52:12PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Monday, March 1, 2021, Riccardo Mottola > wrote: > > > A quick solution would to have this configure as a convenience, but have > a way to pass an --enable-altivec and -disable-altivec (or with/without?) >

Re: Heads-up: random hangs with Linux 5.7-rc4 on PowerMac6,7 (and other minor issues)

On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 01:09:58PM +0100, Rui Salvaterra wrote: > Hi, Gabriel, > > On Sun, 10 May 2020 at 12:37, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > > > I suspect the PowerMac6,7 is a 32 bit machine, given what you say below. > > Yes, of course, sorry for not being mo

Re: Heads-up: random hangs with Linux 5.7-rc4 on PowerMac6,7 (and other minor issues)

On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 12:06:30PM +0100, Rui Salvaterra wrote: > Hi, everyone! > > I'm running Debian powerpc/ppc64 on a couple of PowerPC machines > (PowerMac6,7 and PowerMac11,2) and the GRUB installation seems to be > working perfectly, huge kudos to everyone involved! I suspect the

Re: old OpenServers able to use Debian?

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 10:10:15PM +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote: > Hi Stuart, > > On 3/12/19 20:59, IT1 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR wrote: > > It is instructive that I thought I had recalled knowing they were > > Power5, absent any photos in that link for me to review, I think that is > > what they

Re: PPC64 Illegal Instruction

On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 11:44:37AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi! > > On 3/4/19 10:24 AM, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > No, the difference is VSX. Altivec is the same instruction set, whether > > on G4, G5, Power5 and later (IBM Power4 did not have Altivec

Re: PPC64 Illegal Instruction

On Sun, Mar 03, 2019 at 09:21:20PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 3/3/19 9:12 PM, Noah Wolfe wrote: > > Really? I thought that since the PowerPC 970 is built on POWER4, that would > > be the baseline. > It's alright, I confused POWER4 and POWER5. There are just too many POWERs. > >

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 02:45:56AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Gabriel Paubert composed on 2018-10-03 08:36 (UTC+0200): > > >> Some Macs, G4s at least, came with AMD/ATI gfxcards. You ought to be able > >> to > >> find one of those to try. > > > Troubl

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 03:06:17PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Rick Thomas composed on 2016-05-02 15:49 (UTC-0700): > > > So, in the interest of getting something that works without tinkering: > > > Is there a hardware solution? Is there a non-Nvidia graphics card I > > could purchase and

Re: [SUSPECTED SPAM] Fwd: [Bug web/82686] Debian sid powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu 4.13.0-1-powerpc64 bootstrap breaks in stage3 with unexpected requirement for bdw-gc

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 06:31:07PM -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > > Merely an FYI ... the word on the street is that GCC 8 will provide a > solid implementation of libquadmath to ppc64. We also know that the > newer IBM Power line will have some hardware implementation for the > new 128-bit

Re: PPC64: gcc currently compiles for power4 by default, causing glibc's sqrtf to fail on e6500

On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 04:02:36PM -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: > On 09/02/18 05:34 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On 02/09/2018 11:30 AM, Bas Vermeulen wrote: > > > mator on #debian-ports compiled gcc-7 for me with the attached patch. > > > With the resulting gcc, I compiled glibc and

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 08:37:24PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:34:11 +0100 > Wolfgang Pfeiffer <r...@gmx.net> wrote: > > > On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:12:24 +0100 > > Gabriel Paubert <paub...@iram.es> wrote: > > [ ... ] >

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 07:51:47PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 02:09:20 +0100 > Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 00:50:01 +0100 > > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > > On 12/04/2017 12:14 AM, John Paul

Re: Bug#830180: PowerPC without altivec causes crash

On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 12:27:54AM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi, > > > > On 12/11/2017 00:03, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > I hope that you don't parse /proc/cpuinfo to know the capabilities of > > your CPU. There is a better way to do this, namely use ge

Re: Bug#830180: PowerPC without altivec causes crash

On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 10:07:50AM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi, > > > On 09/11/2017 17:41, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On 11/09/2017 05:30 PM, Ondřej Surý wrote: > > > this has been already fixed by upstream: > > > > > >

Re: Maturity of GRUB on powerpc/ppc64?

On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 06:36:33PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 10/04/2017 06:23 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > It is not a flag, it is a partition type. PPC PReP Boot is partition > > type 0x41. Similar to how Linux is type 0x83 and Linux swap is type 0x82. > > > > I don't

Re: New discussion: ppc64 installer -- ext2 /boot partition to keep sabot happy.

On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 11:05:34AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 09/30/2017 08:11 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > It’s comforting that “remove yaboot” only means remove it from unstable. I > > did not > > understand that point. Thanks for explaining. > > Ok, good. > > > I’ll be glad

Re: Firefox-esr and qupzilla crash/exit under Debian 9 ppc64

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 02:15:42PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 01:36:19PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 12:40 PM, Gabriel Paubert <paub...@iram.es> wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 12:10:20PM +0200,

Re: Firefox-esr and qupzilla crash/exit under Debian 9 ppc64

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 01:36:19PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 12:40 PM, Gabriel Paubert <paub...@iram.es> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 12:10:20PM +0200, Christian Zigotzky wrote: > >> On 29 September 2017 at 11:42AM, Gabriel Paub

Re: Firefox-esr and qupzilla crash/exit under Debian 9 ppc64

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 12:10:20PM +0200, Christian Zigotzky wrote: > On 29 September 2017 at 11:42AM, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > Hi Christian, > > > > The right mouse button, i.e., the one that pops up a menu. > > > I understand. Yes, you're right. There is

Re: Firefox-esr and qupzilla crash/exit under Debian 9 ppc64

t; support forum. [1] > > Cheers, > Christian > > [1] > http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/viewtopic.php?f=35=2453=42499#p42499 > > > On 29 September 2017 at 11:03AM, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > Do you also have the problem of FireFix exiting with corrup

Re: Firefox-esr and qupzilla crash/exit under Debian 9 ppc64

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 10:06:08AM +0200, Christian Zigotzky wrote: > Hi All, > > I have Debian Sid PowerPC (PPC32) on my A-EON AmigaOne X1000 Nemo (P.A. Semi > PA6T). I have the same problems with Firefox ESR. > > Adrian, could you try to get in touch with the Firefox maintainer? I think > you

Re: New discussion: ppc64 installer -- ext2 /boot partition to keep sabot happy.

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 08:41:10PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 09/26/2017 05:14 PM, Milan Kupcevic wrote: > >> So, it seems that your original suggestion to just enable an ext2 /boot > >> partition is not enough. Yaboot's configuration file also needs to > >> be accessible on a

Re: debian-installer: please default to grub-ieee1275 on powerpc instead of yaboot

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 12:10:17PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Thu 2017-09-21 10:26:08 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > > I like this idea but i don't have a lot of spare machines handy to try > > d-i on these days. I can try to dig up a power supply for an idle older > > ppc laptop

Re: A few questions about stretch ( testing ) on a PowerMac G5

On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 08:54:29AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 02/05/2017 04:24 AM, dev_user wrote: > > I tend to enjoy having non-x86 gear around and for RISC that means > > PowerPC and SPARC. Oh gee ... look .. sparc is dropped too. > > Both PowerPC and SPARC are still

Re: CPU requirements for powerpc

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 08:20:29AM +, luigi burdo wrote: > Please, do not build the distro with altivec enabled or will cut > compatibility with all powerpc emb systems > > Freescale, Amcc and so and so . > > In my case i have a dual 5020 and a quad core 5040 system and everytime apps >

Re: yaboot 1.3.17 broken

On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 08:37:28PM -0700, Herminio Hernandez Jr wrote: > I do not know if anyone else is having this issue but if you make any > changes to yaboot.conf and try up date the bootloader with 'ybin -v' and > reboot, the system will not start. I needed reinstall Jessie set up my >

Re: jpeg-turbo 6.2 and ppc G3

On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 10:52:01AM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi, > > Gabriel Paubert wrote: > >>That is garbage in my opinion, given there exists a proper interface > >>>for getting that info. > >Seconded, getauxval (not getauxvec!) is simpler, off

Re: jpeg-turbo 6.2 and ppc G3

On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 04:54:01PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 09:54:02PM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > "upstream" replied with this: > > > > https://github.com/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo/commit/6c0b7613b4d48dd35e54fc968f4a808d495f2fef > > That is garbage in my

Re: Adding more ppc64 buildds from the POWER cloud

On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 08:32:28AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 10:51:37AM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > What is really missing in ppc-land is a variant which uses 32 bit > > addresses but otherwise knows that general purposes registers are > >

Re: Adding more ppc64 buildds from the POWER cloud

On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 05:51:10PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 05:39:48PM -0300, Breno Leitao wrote: > > Ok, since we will not even have VMX, I understand that we might not need a > > POWER8, i.e, we can pursue initially with a POWER7. Does it make sense? > > > >

Re: Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 07:52:37AM +1100, Peter Saisanas wrote: > Hi Clive, > > Glad you got your G5 up and running! > > Regarding my config, currently am running 4.5.0-rc2 kernel, xfce > desktop and on Debian stretch (testing) repo's. > > As a side note, on the testing repo's, the only package

Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 09:35:21AM +1100, Peter Saisanas wrote: > It probably affects everyone trying to build a BE 64bit PPC kernel, > perhaps others as well. Oops, I read too quickly the patch headline, the fix is not for binutils, it is for the kernel. And it is a one liner, trivial to apply

Re: POWER8-based Desktop machine

On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 10:24:17AM -0200, Breno Leitao wrote: > Just found on the web: > > Talos™ is the world's first ATX workstation-class mainboard for the new, > open-source friendly IBM POWER8 processor and architecture. Raptor > Engineering's > Talos™ Secure Workstation brings unparalleled

Re: Debian 8.1 PPC working fine on Pegasos II G4

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:39:29PM -0400, Milan Kupcevic wrote: On 06/15/2015 12:29 PM, aPEX wrote: Hello, I was a little bit to fast. The installation is working fine without a problem using Debian 8.1. But at the end no vmklinuz imgae is generated. Only the vmklinux files. I

Re: Machine check in kernel mode Caused by (from SRR1=2000f930): L1 Data Cache error

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 06:11:42PM +0200, Knut Lange wrote: Hello, I'm Knut Lange. I installed Debian wheezy (Linux Kernel 3.16.0-4-powerpc #1 Debian 3.16.7-ckt7-1 (2015-03-01) ppc GNU/Linux) for Powerpc on an G4 Mac(PowerMac G4 AGP Graphics). Some specifications from lshw:

Re: No more OpenGL with ATI R300 after upgrading to Debian testing

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 10:31:43AM +0100, Adi Kriegisch wrote: Hey! I recently upgraded a PowerPC machine to Debian testing and OpenGL no more works. [...] The problem is actually in Mesa, see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71789 . Same here; there is a debian bug entry

Re: No more OpenGL with ATI R300 after upgrading to Debian testing

Hi Michel, On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 06:01:42PM +0900, Michel Dänzer wrote: On 31.10.2014 00:27, Gabriel Paubert wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded a PowerPC machine to Debian testing and OpenGL no more works. glxinfo claims: name of display: :0 libGL error: No matching

No more OpenGL with ATI R300 after upgrading to Debian testing

Hi, I recently upgraded a PowerPC machine to Debian testing and OpenGL no more works. glxinfo claims: name of display: :0 libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found libGL error: failed to load driver: r300 libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found libGL error: failed

Re: Bug#728936 - Has anyone succeeded in installing Jessie on PowerPC?

On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 11:16:29PM -0800, Dan DeVoto wrote: Confirmed on my Powerbook5,6 and PowerMac3,1. The Dec. 8th nightly still has this bug. Though the keyboard on my G3 iBook (Powerbook4,3) works fine, so Team G3! The G3 probably has an ADB keyboard. The newer ones have an USB.

Re: PowerPC assembler help

On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 04:45:24PM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 10:03:14PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Hi all, Anyone know/understand PowerPC assembler? I have the instruction: lwz 30, .label - (1b)(31) From reading the documentation I could

X windows and network problems?

Hi, I have an x86 laptop and a PPC workstation with Debian testing recently upgraded. Many X application crash whenever I do ssh with X forwarding between them. For example anytime from any of the two machines, starting evince in a remote session (even without a file name) immediately

Re: Processed: Re: Bug#624354: ./xpcshell: error while loading shared libraries: ./libxul.so: R_PPC_REL24 relocation at 0x0f9f0148 for symbol `_restgpr_29_x' out of range

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:10:54PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:04:42PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: Let me write it again: - The R_PPC_REL24 relocations are all over libxul.so on objects that are built -fPIC. - libcrmf.a is also linked into libxul.so, and it also

Re: Xorg cpu usage 100% on Squeeze

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 06:06:33PM +0100, Pat Wall wrote: Hi Everybody I have a vanilla Squeeze up and running on a YDL PowerStation which, except for one issue, is now working perfectly. Usually after a couple of hours usage the system (as in X) will suddenly become unresponsive

Re: Squeeze on Lombard

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:48:16PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Don, 2011-04-14 at 07:36 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: Dear Michel, On 04/14/11 05:55, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Mit, 2011-04-13 at 14:17 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: I have one iBook G4 here that has some packages from

Re: disk labels and partitions for IBM Power to boot

On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 02:59:00PM +0100, Adrian Zaugg wrote: Hello I have partitioned my boot disk in a IBM Power 740 Express with cfdisk (msdos disk labels) to have a PReP bootpartition first and a Linux partition behind it. The system doesn't recognize this disk as a boot disk, although

Re: PowerPC port for the e500 core

On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 10:07:36AM +0100, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: Hi, On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 03:16:02PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: I have a Lenny snapshot of a new Debian architecture called gnuspe located at [0]. I haven't announced it anywhere (until now). It is called

Re: Debian on Xilinx FPGA's

On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 10:17:23AM +0200, xavier grave wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Spenser Gilliland a écrit : Hi, My name is Spenser Gilliland. I am an Electrical and Computer Engineer at Baylor. I spent quite a bit of time over the past few months putting

Re: suspend/ resume with kernel 2.4.26??

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 04:37:25PM +0200, Noah Rusch wrote: Hi there! No, you are not allone! I have a iBook Clamshell G3 466 MHz. Only with 2.4.18 Kernel pbbuttonsd is able zu suspend. Do you have the firewire driver loaded (as a module or builtin)? On my 400MHz Pismo, it was the problem.

Re: Builds disturbed by the usage of a 64bit kernel.

On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 08:56:56PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: On 5/29/07, Paul Mackerras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Albert Cahalan writes: Running a 32-bit userspace on a 64-bit kernel is however gross, foul, bad, nasty, and wrong. Rubbish. It makes a lot of sense for most userspace

Re: xkb-data: Help needed for Macintosh keyboards

On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 12:17:09AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 01:26:09PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: Another point, the es layout for Macintosh is actually latin american. Apple makes both es and latin american and they are very different: simply look

Re: pbbuttonsd gets SIGKILL when suspending

On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 02:34:52PM +, Jörg Sommer wrote: Hi, my pbbuttonsd dies sometimes while suspending the system to RAM. It gets a SIGKILL, but I don't know from where and when. Is it possible to create a coredump upon SIGKILL? How? What I have seen happening in some cases is

Re: xkb-data: Help needed for Macintosh keyboards

On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 01:24:02AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: Hi folks, PC keyboards have been redesigned in Xfree86 4.3 to allow loading several layouts (for instance us+ru+fr); in xkeyboard-config, all previous PC layouts have been dropped and replaced by these new layouts. But

Re: PowerPC paxtest results w/ gcc-4.1

On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 01:59:05PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: Matt Sealey writes: Book I compatible PowerPC's have had a no-executable bit in the page protection flags since the dark ages.. see page 7-38 and 7-39 of the 'Programming Environments Manual for 32-Bit Microprocessors'..

Re: context.cr2

On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 03:31:04PM +0200, Kasper Jordaens wrote: I still get an error when compiling, but when I totally remove the reference, it compiles without error?? although the app doens' run and complains about [Restarting capture daemon for Cam1, shared memory not valid] that

Re: context.cr2

On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 12:13:20PM +0200, Kasper Jordaens wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to compile zoneminder on debianPPC. this should be quite easy but I get an error on context.cr2 context.eip. zm_signal.cpp:89: error: 'struct sigcontext' has no member named 'cr2' zm_signal.cpp:89:

Re: can't find a way to type brackets on powerbook g3

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 09:35:39PM +0200, domenico wrote: Hello everyone, I'm moving to linux and I installed debian sarge on my old powerbook g3 (lombard). Everyting worked fine and I added window maker to get a confortable developing platform with vi and gcc. But I'm not able to type

Re: ppc: bogomips at 73 when CPU is at 1GHz

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 06:18:19AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Hi, I've noticed the very log value on bogomips on self-compiled 2.6.16.16 on iBook G4. [06:12:59]ibookg4:~ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : 7447A, altivec supported clock : 1066.666000MHz

Re: The powerpc port should be removed from etch release candidates ...

On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:41:34AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 04:38:07PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Hey, cool. so ARCH=ppc will work both for apus and prep, and the rest should go with ARCH=powerpc. This is the case both for 2.6.16 and the upcoming

Re: no keyborad with xorg on Pismo/unstable

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 11:02:30PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: (fr_new comes from http://www.linux-france.org/macintosh/clavier_v4.html) All attempts I made to change this setting leads to a non working keyboad in Gnome. Currently I'm writing from Xfe where I get a keyboard

Re: sleep mode power usage on powerbook5,6

On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 10:33:23PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: Hi, After approximately 18 hours of sleep under linux, my powerbook has lost almost 25% of its battery charge. That seems to be too high. (Ben: Yes, with the marvell phy suspend patch :) ) Does anyone have values for OSX,

Re: Not coherent cache DMA for G3/G4 CPUs: clarification needed

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 08:57:46PM +0200, Gerhard Pircher wrote: Hi, I try to implement not coherent cache/DMA support for G3/G4 processors, by reserving some physical memory for DMA operations. The memory used for consistent allocations (removed from the top of the physical memory below

Re: Not coherent cache DMA for G3/G4 CPUs: clarification needed

On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 08:39:29AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 14:13 -0700, Eugene Surovegin wrote: On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 07:06:13AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Unfortunately, he has to do things a bit differently. He can't afford to have the

Re: XEN...if ever?

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 02:22:40PM +1000, Aaron Kerr wrote: I really some of this porting effort produces something that is G4 friendly. First avoid posting in Hideous Trash Makeup Language, thanks. Second, there is no hope of making Xen work on the existing G4. The hypervisor support is

Re: Qemu and GCC-3.4 on powerpc

On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 02:45:04PM +0200, Dieter Schuster wrote: Tach auch! Am Fr, den 31 März 2006, schrieb Alan Modra: On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 12:00:47PM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 12:56:13AM +0200, Dieter Schuster wrote: If I try to compile qemu with GCC

Re: Qemu and GCC-3.4 on powerpc

On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 12:56:13AM +0200, Dieter Schuster wrote: Hello, the version 0.8.0 of qemu in the Debian-pool will not compile on PowerPC with GCC 3.4. The following patch will fix it: And suck performance wise with exploding code size. Without speaking of potential atomicity issues

Re: X kills my powerbook

On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 10:48:26AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 10:00 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 03:37:35PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Known bug in xorg 6.9, try to go back to 6.8 if you can. I don't know if 7.0 is ready or not

Re: X kills my powerbook

On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 11:11:38AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 10:55 +0100, Gabriel Paubert wrote: On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 10:48:26AM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: The patch is included in xserver-xorg-video-ati SVN but hasn't been uploaded to experimental yet

Re: use right apple key as alt (Re: X kills my powerbook)

On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 12:34:30PM +0100, Ben Mueller wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Gabriel Paubert wrote: Now I have another gripe with the keyboard mapping for my spanish Apple Pro keyboard, it includes us(extended) which makes the right Apple key work as a Compose key. Well, I

Re: X kills my powerbook

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:14:46AM +, Bruce Richardson wrote: I did apt-get upgrade yesterday. Now X kills my powerbook stone dead every time I run it. All I see is a flashing cursor in the top left for a couple of seconds and then the box turns off. xorg.conf is untouched, so I don't

Re: debian-PPC powerbook laptop support.

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 10:40:52AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 19:22 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 19:10 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: Airport? nope. I should've elaborated on that: it doesn't always work reliably (though on the

Re: 2.6.16-rc2 powerpc timestamp skew

On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 05:13:50PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: Hi folks, When running a 2.6.16-rc2 kernel on a powerpc system (Mac Mini; Freescale 7447A): $ date touch f ls -l f rm -f f date Sun Feb 12 12:20:14 GMT 2006 -rw-r--r-- 1 rleigh rleigh 0 2006-02-12 12:23 Sun Feb 12 12:20:14

Re: How about the new MacBook

On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 08:41:44PM +0100, Jaonary Rabarisoa wrote: Hi all, One more thing : MacBook pro is out :-) The specification seems to be great, up to 4 time faster the the powerbook, intel dual core, isight, ... Hmm It's exiting me It has an Intel (x86) processor so it is

Re: Xorg and DRI on Pismo

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 08:22:03AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 19:47 +0200, Peter Plessas wrote: Hi, dear fellows, Having problems getting DRI to work in Xorg on my Pismo. Full files are here: mona.mur.at/peter/xorg.conf mona.mur.at/peter/Xorg.0.log

Re: Alternative to G3 ibook

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 11:44:57PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: Thanks very much for your email, Wojciech. On 20/10/05, Wojciech Owczarek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 21:23:49 +0100 Rory Campbell-Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would be grateful for any ideas

Re: Alternative to G3 ibook

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 10:26:56AM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: Thanks for the vote of confidence in the Lombard, Gabriel. The Pismo, not the Lombard. The one with Firewire if you prefer. Regards, Gabriel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Apple's Developer Transition Kit

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 12:28:13PM +0200, Alex Fernandez wrote: IBM, hopefully. Otherwise we will be left to hacking XBoxes and Playstations. :( I will only believe it when I see it. And the critical word in my question is affordable, not at $1 a pop. I don't have very high hopes.

Re: Apple's Developer Transition Kit

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 03:15:17PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Hi Colin On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 11:53:32AM +0200, Colin Leroy wrote: Hi, http://developer.apple.com/transitionkit.html Looks like hackers can get an x86 Apple machine right now, if they fork $999. I guess

Re: Reverse engeneering the SMU (iMac G5, newer single-pro G5)

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 05:41:29PM +0100, Francois wrote: Gabriel, thanks for your explanation. Would you by chance know how to convert a vtable entry (vtable for IOI2CController+0x348) into some method/attribute name? What is the exact inheritance hierarchy leading to IOI2CController?

Re: Reverse engeneering the SMU (iMac G5, newer single-pro G5)

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 04:49:19PM +0100, Francois wrote: Note that i've started doing work on the SMU driver yesterday as the iMac G5 finally came back from Apple. I have the fan control pretty much figured out, and I'm still working on figuring out the access to the various sensors and

Re: Sound drivers for newer machines: need help

On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 01:12:31PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: If you have a newer machine, that is a machine released on or after 2002, can you please send me the output of: [...] I'm especially interested in the various models

Re: sarge kernel frozen (2.4.27 and 2.6.8), and plans for post-sarge powerpc kernels.

On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:41:58AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Hello, It seems as the 2.4.27 and 2.6.8 kernels which are sarge release candidates are now frozen, and will be part of sarge as is, complete with all the bugs and problems present in them, and maybe even some security issues which

Re: RTC_PIE possible using via-pmu?

On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 10:36:15AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 13:17 +0100, Martin Habets wrote: RTC_IRQP_SET sets the periodic interrupt rate. RTC_PIE_ON turns on periodic interrupts. RTC_PIE_OFF turns off periodic interrupts. There are similar ioctls

Re: Powerbook5,6 longer list of what does not work...

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 06:38:08PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 02:54 +0100, Chocron J. wrote: Hi list ! I read the initiated by Antonio-M Corbi Bellot, and I am afraid that the list he provided is incomplete. So far, after about 3 weeks of fiddling with

Re: pre-release 2.6.11-0.1 debian/powerpc kernel.

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 08:40:46AM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote: On 10 Mar 2005 at 00h03, Gabriel Paubert wrote: Hi, What I'd like, but I don't have a new PowerBook, is to make fn modify the trackpad behaviour to a scrollwheel. There is a small MacOS X application that does

Re: pre-release 2.6.11-0.1 debian/powerpc kernel.

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 10:40:32AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: I tried showkey -s on the console. Pressing fn does not result in any output. It has never emitted any scan code on any Mac with an ADB keyboard. Its state is kept internally. What I'd like, but I don't have a

Re: Powerbook5,6 longer list of what does not work...

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 10:58:50AM -0500, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 10:17 +0100, Gabriel Paubert wrote: Wouldn't it be better to treat the Fn key like an additional modifier for cramped (i.e., notebook) keyboards, even on ADB? Don't ADB keyboards handle it entirely

Re: pre-release 2.6.11-0.1 debian/powerpc kernel.

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:18:46PM +, Jochen Voss wrote: Hello Sven, On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 07:49:38PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: I am in the process of uploading a pre-release 2.6.11 debian/powerpc kernel to http://people.debian.org/~luther/powerpc/2.6.11-0.1 And altough

Re: msdos Zip on Pismo internal drive?

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 03:19:46PM -0500, vze26m98 wrote: Hi all- More newbie questions: I've got a stable Woody distro on my Pismo laptop and an internal VST 250 meg Zip drive in the CD Rom bay. I can mount an HFS formatted Zip like this: mount -t hfs /dev/hde ./zip ...and I can

Re: French keyboard PowerBook G4 ( alu ) with KDE

On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 12:51:05AM +0100, Bruno Beaufils wrote: I had got the same problem with either my old TiBook and my new AlBook (the one with ATI 9600 graphic card). My solution was to bypass all those new stuff not well documented (XKB) and use plain old Xmodmap. Actually, if you

Re: trackpad on powerbook

On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 11:32:41AM -0500, John Harrold wrote: Sometime in February Gabriel Paubert assaulted the keyboard and produced: | I suspect you load more modules than this. | What does `lsmod' say? Oh, lots and lots of happiness: absent:~# lsmod Module Size

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 08:27:23PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 07:11:16PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: [ ... ] But I just installed a new kernel: kernel-image-2.4.27-power4-pmac (correct for Titanium IV ? ... ) When trying to boot

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 08:27:23PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 07:11:16PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: [ ... ] But I just installed a new kernel: kernel-image-2.4.27-power4-pmac (correct for Titanium IV ? ... ) When trying to boot

Re: PPC Firewire support on 2.4.18-newpmac/Debian-3.0 r1 install CD?

On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 07:25:05AM -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote: Gabriel == Gabriel Paubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gabriel Not surprising, since *power4* means that it is a 64 bit Gabriel kernel, i.e., for G5 aka PPC970. The Debian power4 kernels in sarge still run in 32

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