Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-05 Thread Holger Levsen
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Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-05 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sun, Jun 05, 2016 at 01:26:39PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > ppc64: > > This architecture is basically on par with the release architectures. We have > over > 11.000 packages installed [...] > sparc64: > We are close to 11.000 installed packages. I'm not sure whether you are tal

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Mittwoch, 23. Oktober 2013, Stewart Smith wrote: > Jenkins can have slaves on remote hosts, via SSH. It runs a small java > app there, so as long as the arch has a JVM then you're pretty right. that JVM is not even needed, just schedule jobs via ssh and be done. cheers, Holger

powerpc hardware to give away

2008-04-09 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I'm giving away my fully working oldworld powermacs: a g3 beige, a 7200 and a 4400, fully working with RAM and (most probably) harddrives. These machine are older than ten years and probably only interesting if you want to work on oldworld powerpc. Then I'm giving away my broken pegasos2 p

Re: Network-manager issues.

2007-05-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 22 May 2007 10:06, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > computer running SimplyMEPIS version 6.0 i386, just yesterday I had the > same problem with a new install of Skolelinux RC1 and copied the did you try the new powerpc etch based version of Skolelinux? I would love to hear about powerpc use

Re: PowerPC buildd is looking for a new home

2007-05-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 10 May 2007 14:32, Holger Levsen wrote: > Adding to the request tracker. If nothing happens within ten days or so > I'll ping DSA again, to make sure you can happily move and we keep our > powerpc buildd :) voltaire.d.o will be relocated this weekend :) regards,

Re: PowerPC buildd is looking for a new home

2007-05-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 11 May 2007 09:50, Ralf Saalmüller wrote: > it's 20 day to go until the buildd for the debian powerpc port gets > disconnected. Yes, we know. But this has nothing to do with those powerpc64 machines discussed in this thread. regards, Holger pgpnMHEwZu69A.pgp Description

Re: PowerPC buildd is looking for a new home

2007-05-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 10 May 2007 12:56, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > When do you move? (As in, until when the machine needs to be moved?) > By the beginning of June. Adding to the request tracker. If nothing happens within ten days or so I'll ping DSA again, to make sure you can happily move and we k

Re: PowerPC buildd is looking for a new home

2007-05-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Daniel, On Wednesday 09 May 2007 22:49, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > voltaire.debian.org, our venerable but still reliable build daemon, > has been living in my apartment for a number of years. I'm moving > house shortly, though, and won't be able to host it in my new home. > So it needs a new g

Re: G3 B/W pcilynx firewire blues

2007-02-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 13 February 2007 05:30, Rick Thomas wrote: > I'd suggest that pcilynx be disabled in the Debian PPC kernels, and a > note to that effect be put in the release documents. > > To what package should I send a bug report with that payload? package "release-notes" for documentation and

Re: miboot floppies from layer-acht

2007-01-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi rob, sorry for my late reply I was too busy the last two weeks... On Sunday 14 January 2007 10:00, rob rob wrote: > 1.At one point you're asked if you want to install stable, unstable or > testing. Won't this be a problem when sarge becomes old stable. I image the > installation will fail here

Re: mol with 2.6.18-3 [Was: mol-modules 2.6.16-2]

2007-01-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 19 January 2007 17:01, brian wrote: > this is nice, however the last time i tried it > a few weeks ago, it deblesses my macosx system, > which is a pain to correct, especially for a novice. Could you try again please and submit an error, so this issue can be fixed and others wont h

Re: Can't boot Mac OSX after installing Etch - solved

2007-01-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 23 January 2007 10:13, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > Must have been something with the buggy graphical installer or my messing > with the partitions. I used OSX partitioning tool to partition the HDD > (it's piece of crap by the way) and everything is working dual-boot wise > now. > >

Re: Debian has failed us

2007-01-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 13 January 2007 08:47, Joey Hess wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Yes, I've seen various mails/rants etc... and haven't wanted to take > > part of it neither in the past, but it looks like this has gone too far, > > and it's more and more looking like even perfectly good

Re: Bug #400919: Bug affecting Kino (and Cinelerra) on PowerPC, any ideas?

2007-01-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 07 January 2007 16:59, Guido Guenther wrote: > The ffmpeg and mplayer packages I provided were based on the packages > from Christian Marillat (debian-multimedia.org). I sent all the > necessary modifications back to him. I no longer build the packages > myself - Christian autobuilds

Re: Bug #400919: Bug affecting Kino (and Cinelerra) on PowerPC, any ideas?

2007-01-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 05 January 2007 14:36, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 19:46 +0100, Herman Robak wrote: > > > DV video playback in Kino is unusably slow on Debian Sid for PowerPC. > > > I get only 1-2 frames per second on a Mac mini, whereas Mplayer and > > > Vlc both give smooth pl

Re: Installing Debian on a Beige G3 PowerMac (OldWorld)

2007-01-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 30 December 2006 07:33, Rick Thomas wrote: > your machine won't boot til you re-key the options. I find this > prospect enough of a potential PITA that I strongly recommend the > fourth option. > > The fourth and final boot loader option is MacOS-9 with a simple > little extension

Re: Migrating from iMac/powerpc to iMac/intel

2007-01-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 31 December 2006 04:02, Eduardo Trápani wrote: > I just wrote to debian-users because I need to move a whole debian box > from a powerpc iMac to an intel pc. The problem is that there seems to > be platform specific files in use and that means that simply > reinstalling packages and

Re: Who is actively porting the Debian architectures?

2006-12-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 26 December 2006 12:37, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: > The Debian's Organizational Structure page only lists DD. At least, > one of them in the previous list is not DD; find the intruder. :) Funnily I claimed "I'm no DD" on that wiki page, and that other page lists my name :-D regards

Re: Who is actively porting the Debian architectures?

2006-12-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 26 December 2006 12:52, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 11:20:50AM +0100, Holger Levsen a écrit : > > http://wiki.debian.org/powerpcEtchReleaseRecertification lists the > > following people for powerpc (Bastian is missing there): [...] > I would

Re: Who is actively porting the Debian architectures?

2006-12-26 Thread Holger Levsen
://wiki.debian.org/powerpcEtchReleaseRecertification lists the following people for powerpc (Bastian is missing there): Roger Leigh Alexander Wirt Sven Luther Michel Daenzer Colin Watson Mark Brown Holger Levsen Given the rumors powerpc would be dead, I suggest to name them all :) regards, Holger

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 25 December 2006 06:40, Christian Müller wrote: > I've just successfully tested the --boot d-i set of files-- @ > http://people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/powerpc/20061224-03:00/powerpc/cdrom/ > > method: BootX under MacOS9, video=ofonly > machine: Beige G3 desktop model, openfirmware ve

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Moin, On Wednesday 20 December 2006 21:05, Rick Thomas wrote: > > listing the working reports and not working ones, or something. > > Then give out > > a call for testers of the last daily-builds. > That would be a good idea. Unfortunately I don't have the time or > the HTML skills to do such a t

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 20 December 2006 07:43, Rick Thomas wrote: > Not to put words into his mouth, but I think that is what Holger is > saying. For the purpose the Sarge floppyset serves, it's enough to > have just a 2.4 kernel for the installer. Yes. > Holger seems to reply "Why bother?" I rather

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 20 December 2006 00:25, Rick Thomas wrote: > There are plenty of OldWorld Macs out there (I own 6 of them) that > would benefit from a kernel 2.6 bootable Sarge floppy-set. How?`Are you really sure the 2.4 floppies don't work with them? What I forgot to say in my mail yesterday,

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 20 December 2006 04:09, John Schmidt wrote: > I have an oldworld ppc that can't boot from cdrom that would benefit from > sarge miboot floppies. download them from http://layer-acht.org/d-i-miboot/ regards, Holger pgp1HPYA1i1ja.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 16 December 2006 00:52, Sven Luther wrote: > > But why? People can install with 2.4 just fine and then later upgrade to > > 2.6, so why do the work and backport it? > Because even when using 2.4 floppies, they will install the 2.6.8 kernels, > so it is best to have the same kernel

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-15 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 15 December 2006 21:37, Sven Luther wrote: > Notice that the 2.6 sarge d-i image had a bug which was later fixed in the > etch/sid version. It has to do with calling mkvmlinuz i think, instead of > simply gzipping it by hand. > > Holger, can you backport the little change from the s

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-15 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Lucas, On Friday 15 December 2006 15:32, you wrote: >As I said, you didn't (until now) ;) >the computer just spits out the disks, you tried the 2.4 and 2.6 ones? > I would think that it's a problem with my > computer, but I was able to boot from an old Debian disk, I think it > wa

Re: miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-15 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Lucas, On Friday 15 December 2006 13:30, Lucas Rossi wrote: >Unfortunately the images didn't work, man...I just tested here... :-( Thanks for telling though. Can you say what didn't work / where it failed how? Would probably help to fix it :) regards, Holger pgpIWfpOpCm0y.pgp

miboot-floppies (powerpc oldworld) for sarge

2006-12-15 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, The miboot enabled d-i sarge floppies for oldworld powerpc are now available again, you can find them at http://layer-acht.org/d-i-miboot/ When/if :) I become a DD, I'll move them to people.d.o and leave a note on my webserver.. I'll keep them available until lenny (!) is released at l

2nd version of the patch for the errata about imac g5 fans(Re: g5 imacs now silent?)

2006-12-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 01 December 2006 15:33, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Thanks for the information! Are those the latest G5 imacs? or the first > > ones? > > I think that it is the latest. For the moment, the windfarm drivers are > available for powermacs 8,1 ; 9,1 ; and 11,2. (grep FARM > /boot/config-2.

Re: g5 imacs now silent?

2006-12-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 30 November 2006 18:06, Sven Luther wrote: [#397942] > > If this is correct, this bug can be closed. Is it correct? > The bug should be retitled and reassigned to initramfs-tools, if it is not > already. It only makes sense to do this, if its confirmed, that initramfs-tools doesn'

Re: g5 imacs now silent?

2006-12-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 30 November 2006 23:04, Étienne Bersac wrote: > Beware not to confuse iMac G5 rev A&B 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

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

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: 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 t

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 s

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, a

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: P

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 o

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? > >

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 cu

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

2006-11-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 26 November 2006 11:39, Johannes Berg wrote: > > And really, loud fans are an issue, but they don't make the installer > > completly usuable (play some louder music during the 30mins of > > installations, whatever) for the minority of powerpc users with such a > > hardware, while the

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

2006-11-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 25 November 2006 23:08, Sven Luther wrote: > Thank you for this, why could you not at least leave me alone ? Because you spread FUD about the debian-powerpc port and claim it's so broken it needs to be removed from etch?! > joeyh accused me of delaying single-handledly the relea

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

2006-11-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, summary for powerpc-users: _if_ you have serious problems with debian-powerpc working on your machine(s), please report them to the bug tracking system, so we can fix them. If you don't know how (or need a bit help), I'm glad to help on this. http://bugs.debian.org is a good starting point :)

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

2006-11-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, summary for powerpc-users: _if_ you have serious problems with debian-powerpc working on your machine(s), please report them to the bug tracking system, so we can fix them. If you don't know how (or need a bit help), I'm glad to help on this. http://bugs.debian.org is a good starting point

Re: acroread

2006-11-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Wolfram, On Tuesday 07 November 2006 17:27, Wolfram Quester wrote: > In this case there is a bug report: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=317984 Ah, thanks. I also filed a bug against poppler now (#397590), so that this is on the radar of other pdf viewers as well. > It was

Re: acroread

2006-11-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 07 November 2006 14:01, Eddy Petrișor wrote: > > What can you do with acroread that would not work with kdpf for example ? > Form templates. Can you please point out a pdf (or create one), so that we can open bugs against the pdf-viewers in debian? regards, Holger pgpZ

Re: old world nonsense, please rectify

2006-10-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 30 October 2006 17:16, you wrote: > Mmm, are you able to boot d-i with 32MB on this box ? No. regards, Holger pgpnFJg8GsQsz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: old world nonsense, please rectify

2006-10-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 22 October 2006 13:54, Sven Luther wrote: > 1) using yaird instead of initramfs-tools, or initramfs-tools with the > modules=dep option. initramfs-tools with the dep option didnt help. I now added more memory and that helped :) From experiementing with "mem=xM" append paramete

Re: bug#390432 - still no boot 2.6.18 here

2006-10-24 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 23 October 2006 12:01, Brian Morris wrote: > well i tried again, still same result as ever trying > to boot 2.6.18 on my old powerbook. how much memory do you have? regards, Holger pgp4Xlo2S183e.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: old world nonsense, please rectify

2006-10-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sunday 22 October 2006 10:20, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > What is the exact problem ? I'm pretty sure I had 2.6.18 booting fine on > a couple of oldworld boxes here before relase. (A fix for IDE on some > performa went in later on, I think in 2.6.18.1) The problem I see here (even on n

boot failure on powerpc newworld, imac g3

2006-10-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, this didn't make it to the lists, but it's in the bts as #394209, please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - thanks. Package: installation-reports severity: important Boot method: netinstall-cd and netboot-cd images Image version: 2006-10-19 from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/da

Re: miboot

2006-09-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 26 September 2006 12:27, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 11:42:13AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > It's to be noted that the miboot images generated by the kernel are > > busted and have been so for a lng time (possibly most of 2.6.x). We > > found that on

Fwd: Debian Edu for powerpc ready for testing

2006-09-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, as I'm away from powerpc machines for the next two weeks I would be happy for testers, too... regards, Holger -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Debian Edu for powerpc ready for testing Date: Thursday 21 September 2006 00:51 From: Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-08-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 19 August 2006 16:17, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: > Sure, no problem and I apologise, which leads me to: how would I know > you are subscribed? ;) Thanks for caring! :) Of course you cannot know if someone is subscribed. But you can know that the default is not to cc: people and assu

Re: Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-08-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Aurélien, please don't cc: me - I'm subscribed to both lists, it's against the mailing lists code of conduct (something you agree on when joining debian..) and it's annoying. Thanks. On Saturday 19 August 2006 14:05, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: > > I'm not sure what you mean by this. If you mean,

Re: Quik and atyfb

2006-08-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 11 August 2006 09:33, Simon Stapleton wrote: > On 10 Aug 2006, at 22:19, Holger Levsen wrote: > Yes, just using video=atyfb causes the same issue. There is a > difference somewhere in the way quik configures stuff and the way > BootX/miBoot do it, using video=atyf

Re: Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac

2006-08-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 18 August 2006 22:49, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:56:52PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Do you think it will be ready for inclusion in etch at release time? > Hard to say, since Piotr and I have no deadline... :) I'm not sure what you mean by this. If you mea

Re: Quik and atyfb

2006-08-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 15 July 2006 17:17, Ben Racher wrote: > So my Powerbook G3 266mhz Wallstreet is now successfully running Debian, > however its a little slow. And I suspect the culprit is the video > acceleration that is issued by quik when you first load the kernel. I've > been using: > video=atyf

Re: Still unable to install debian Etch on a 7046-b50 RS/6000

2006-08-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 10 August 2006 00:30, Torsten Zirzlaff wrote: > I'm still fighting with my RS/6000 to get a Debian Etch on it. The > problem is, at least in my case, that I'm unable to use the stock > install images. Where did you download them? >Any idea where to ask for further help? debi

Re: PowerMac 7200-platinumfb display problem

2006-08-09 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 27 July 2006 03:35, Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote: > > > http://people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/powerpc-miboot/daily/ > > > I tried this image today (27-Jul-2006) and suffered the same fate.. The image from there from the 23rd of July worked for me on a g3 oldworld, so give it a try. So

Re: Installer problems on Beige PowerMac G3

2005-08-12 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 10 August 2005 17:56, Magnus Sandberg wrote: > I have some problems installing Debian Sarge on my OldWorld PowerMac. > I sent a bug report to the bugtracking system; > http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/08/msg00288.html > > Does any one has any ideas regarding thies problems

[powerpc] simplifying and updating http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status

2005-05-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status is IMHO a bit confusing and missing some infos: - for oldworld cd- and net-booting a note should be added: "needs booting from OpenFirmware" (this is currently not described in the manual - if it's added (it's on my list for today t

Re: Orphaned kernel config project for PowerBook G4

2005-04-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 25 April 2005 20:18, Johannes Mockenhaupt wrote: > > Hence two questions, the first is who would like to take over the > > maintenance of this configuration and hosting of the web pages (you > > could source forge it). > Creating a sourceforge project might be a bit overkill and ther

Re: giveaway: Beige G3 - complete system (Switzerland)

2005-04-17 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Tormod, On Thursday 07 April 2005 15:33, Tormod Volden wrote: > I want to get rid of my Power Macintosh G3 (beige desktop), since I am > gonna move. It would be nice if it could be used by (and/or): > > 1) someone developing, testing or using Debian (or some other free OS) > 2) someone who can'

Re: Problem installing on PowerMac 8600

2005-02-24 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Patrick, On Thursday 24 February 2005 02:47, Patrick Bachmann wrote: > Well, I went to Staples and got me a new set of floppies that even have a > two year guarantee on them, but it still didn't work. well, you might use brand new floppies, but the problem could also be your old floppy drive.

Re: Problem installing on PowerMac 8600

2005-02-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Patrick, On Tuesday 22 February 2005 18:02, Patrick Bachmann wrote: > This OldWorld-maschine doesn't want to boot the floppies, I'm trying to > feed it with. > There are various floppies I have tried, e.g. the woody and sarge boot > floppies and the floppies of the rc2 of the debian installer.

Re: old apple machines supported ?

2005-02-17 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 17 February 2005 04:08, teefour wrote: > The 4400 should work. Some time ago I had one running linux. No Idea > about the others. the 4400 does work (also with the new debian-installer) for sure. it even boots from a 160gb ide-harddrive :-) regards, holger pgpZNUAy6Llyu.pgp D

Re: Switching from BootX to quik

2005-02-16 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Wednesday 16 February 2005 13:02, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > This was a common problem with previous, non-initrd enabled quik > > versions-- are you sure you've got the latest quik from sarge ? > > Yes, > > pc236:~# apt-cache policy quik > quik: > Installed: 2.1-3 > Candidate: 2.1-3 > Ve

Re: Trouble installing debian on a 8500/120

2005-01-24 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 24 January 2005 09:15, Marco Gaiarin wrote: > Hem, i've just tried sarge rc2, but as i've just stated, the floppy > image seems not bootable, and the documentation still speak about the > woody image (boot-floppy-hfs.img), so seems not updated. Try the floppy-images from http://peo

d-i on pmac 9600 (was Re: howto move from yellow dog -> debian

2005-01-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 10 January 2005 17:17, Russell McManus wrote: > Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Monday 10 January 2005 03:17, Russell McManus wrote: > >> I've got a 9600/MP running yellow dog linux, that I'd like to upgrade > >> to sa

d-i on pmac 9600 (was Re: howto move from yellow dog -> debian

2005-01-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Monday 10 January 2005 17:17, Russell McManus wrote: > Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Monday 10 January 2005 03:17, Russell McManus wrote: > >> I've got a 9600/MP running yellow dog linux, that I'd like to upgrade > >> to sa

Re: howto move from yellow dog -> debian

2005-01-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Russel, cc:ed cause I'm not sure wether you read the list... On Monday 10 January 2005 03:17, Russell McManus wrote: > I've got a 9600/MP running yellow dog linux, that I'd like to upgrade > to sarge. But I had some trouble with the sarge install cd, which I > have so far been unable to resol

Re: howto move from yellow dog -> debian

2005-01-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Russel, cc:ed cause I'm not sure wether you read the list... On Monday 10 January 2005 03:17, Russell McManus wrote: > I've got a 9600/MP running yellow dog linux, that I'd like to upgrade > to sarge. But I had some trouble with the sarge install cd, which I > have so far been unable to resol

Re: gtkpbbuttons MacOSX theme

2004-12-14 Thread Holger Levsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Monday 13 December 2004 22:29, Matthias Grimm wrote: > This is _not_ gtkpbbuttons! What you saw is the KDE laptoptool 'kmilo'. It > gets its informations also from pbbuttonsd but kmilo is not my project. Thanks. I was using kde before, and i'm

Re: gtkpbbuttons MacOSX theme

2004-12-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, Guillaume, at most I can confirm your reports. Unfortunatly I think that's all. On Monday 13 December 2004 19:16, Guillaume Florey wrote: > Thanks for the help, but I cant find any gtkpbbuttons with ps -ax nor pid > in /var/run/ ... I can confirm this. It's so strange and it even has vanish

Re: Magic for sid changeroot required on ppc?

2004-12-13 Thread Holger Levsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Monday 13 December 2004 10:56, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > ok, I solved it: I mounted the partition with nodev, hence no > /dev/null and friends. good that you found the reason... ;) > Now it misses a dependency of pppoeconf on gettext, but thi

Re: Magic for sid changeroot required on ppc?

2004-12-12 Thread Holger Levsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Sunday 12 December 2004 15:53, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Hello, > I want to set up a sid changeroot on my ibook. I use the command > provided in the manual page of debootstrap: > > env LANG=C debootstrap sid /scr/build/chroot-sid/ > http://ftp.

Re: SOLVED: Re: entering sleep mode quietly/non-verbose

2004-12-06 Thread Holger Levsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Monday 06 December 2004 15:22, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > Attached is "sleep-quiet", which I put into /etc/power/scripts.d/ and > > made a link to /etc/power/event.d/sleep-quiet. As I didn't find a way to > > determine the current fblevel easil

SOLVED: Re: entering sleep mode quietly/non-verbose

2004-12-06 Thread Holger Levsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Friday 03 December 2004 08:30, Colin Leroy wrote: > You can add fblevel 0 and fblevel 15 in /etc/power/pmcs-pbbuttonsd > script, in suspend and resume case... It should work. Thanks! It does work nicely indeed ;-) Only X still looks a little b

Summary / new quik available (was Re: please test new quik with initrd-support (was: Re: getting quik into sarge?

2004-12-03 Thread Holger Levsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver has made some new updates to the quik - you can get it (.deb and source) at the http://www.ulyssis.org/~p2/debjes/ changes include: - manpage tells about initrd - compiles with gcc3 - sprintf bug fixed - ANS raid supp

entering sleep mode quietly/non-verbose

2004-12-02 Thread Holger Levsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, each time my ibook g3 enters sleep mode, the displays switches from graphics to text console and displays some kernel stufff, which is pretty useful for debugging etc. But this doesn't look really pretty in everyday operations - especially for

please test new quik with initrd-support (was: Re: getting quik into sarge?

2004-11-26 Thread Holger Levsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, cc:s added to gain more attention, reply-to: set. On Friday 26 November 2004 10:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i'm the current maintainer of quik, the oldworld PPC bootloader. i'm > currently sponsored by Jakko Niemi. there have been many code ch

Re: kernel-image-2.4.27-powerpc-smp-pmac unstable with CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y

2004-10-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, [no debian 2.6 kernel packages with quik] > Well, actually, the only reason is the initrd. We could make a 2.6 > non-initrd kernel flavour for powerpc, which would solve those problems. I > bet Jens would be vetoing any such moves though. Why would Jens be vetoing ? regards, Holger

Re: got quik working with OldWorld G3 Beige 233MHz

2004-10-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Thursday 07 October 2004 06:35, Duane Cottle wrote: > > Perhaps someone will step up and provide evidence to the contrary, > > but I'm pretty sure that quik doesn't support loading a ramdisk. I've > > never tried it myself, but I don't remember ever hearing about anyone > > doing it. > man

Re: No HFS driver, and "change install priority" menu option missing -- and other bugs found while testing 2.4 boot floppies on OldWorld PowerMac

2004-09-29 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, > > However... There is one important thing missing from the boot > > disks. Specifically, the "System" file is zero length. This is > > true of both boot and ofonlyboot for both 2.4 and 2.6. It won't > > boot that way. > Arg, again. I have to checkup and see what is missing in the build pr

Re: missing udev permissions

2004-09-29 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 25 September 2004 20:01, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 07:41:15PM -0500, Holger Levsen wrote: > > I believe the following devices are missing > > from /etc/udev/permissions.d/udev.permissions (udev, Version: 0.031-2, > > sarge install with kerne

missing udev permissions

2004-09-24 Thread Holger Levsen
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Re: ibook2.2, sarge, kernel2.6.8 & devfsd: no sound, no cd-writing

2004-09-24 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, > This is not true anymore i have no problem burning CDs and DVDs with the > current 2.6.8 and cdrecord in sid. thanx - with 2.6.8-3 (from sarge) and cdrecord from sid (with or without recompilation with dvd-patch) i can burn CD-RWs as root and as user. but still, k3b doesnt find a cd-write

Re: Plea for help from PowerMac Open Firmware gurus -- Testing newoldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies

2004-09-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, miboot is used on them as well. regards, holger On Sunday 19 September 2004 17:26, Christian Leimer wrote: > I found that website > http://mike.quintero.staff.noctrl.edu/slackintosh/ > which offers two boot disks. I dont test them but they are for Linux. If > they dont use miboot it

modifying/modified powerpc boot-floppies (was Re: Testing newoldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies

2004-09-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 18 September 2004 10:03, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > The resource is called CMDL. More detailed instructions are here: > http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2000/06/olh_ppc_miboot.html> ok, this is cool for everybody who as macos. but i would really like to see a linux-only solution. a

Re: ibook2.2, sarge, kernel2.6.8 & devfsd: no sound, no cd-writing

2004-09-19 Thread Holger Levsen
ng to fast, some gaps) - i still _believe_ that i should switch to alsa if possible regards, Holger On Monday 13 September 2004 10:50, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hello, > > I have an ibook2.2, which is running sarge with kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc > (2.6.8-3) and dev

Re: Plea for help from PowerMac Open Firmware gurus -- Testing newoldworld pmac miboot 2.6 floppies

2004-09-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I was busy with lots of "real life stuff", so I was away from debian-boot a while... I'm sorry for that ;-) > > So I'm no longer so sure as I once was that the parameters after "boot" > > in Open Firmware are getting passed to the kernel. Is it possible to > > modify the boot-parameters tha

ibook2.2, sarge, kernel2.6.8 & devfsd: no sound, no cd-writing

2004-09-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hello, I have an ibook2.2, which is running sarge with kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc (2.6.8-3) and devfsd now. processor : 0 cpu : 750FX temperature : 19-21 C (uncalibrated) clock : 800MHz revision: 2.2 (pvr 7000 0202) bogomips: 1585.15 machine

2.4.26 from kernel.org or from benh tree ?

2004-05-17 Thread Holger Levsen
Hello, is it still "mandatory" to use Benjamins 2.4 repository or have all (or mostly all) patches been applied to 2.4.26/27 ? As I can see from this list, most of the effort is going into 2.6 now, which is good, but I still want to use 2.4 on my ibook for a while. (And for various reasons I w

Re: patch-floppy-image.pl

2004-03-31 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, > I´m searching for that perl script patch-floppy-image.pl which the > installation manual of debian linuxppc mentions but I can´t find it anymore > at the cvs.debian site. Does anyone have this script yet?? If yes, please, > can you send it to me? Not long ago I was also looking for it, it i

Re: howto create boot-floppy-hfs.img for oldworld macs ?

2004-02-24 Thread Holger Levsen
Am Dienstag, 24. Februar 2004 19:18 schrieb Holger Levsen: > Hello, > > I got an Apple Powermac 4400 and want to create a bootfloppy with a custom > kernel for it but I fail. > > I manage to build a debian kernel package on another ppc machine with > make-kpgg, but the vmlinux

howto create boot-floppy-hfs.img for oldworld macs ?

2004-02-24 Thread Holger Levsen
Hello, I got an Apple Powermac 4400 and want to create a bootfloppy with a custom kernel for it but I fail. I manage to build a debian kernel package on another ppc machine with make-kpgg, but the vmlinux which is built is to big for a floppy: 3218566 2004-02-20 23:12:32 ./boot/vmlinux-2.4

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