Am Donnerstag, dem 23.11.2023 um 09:01 +0100 schrieb Johannes
Brakensiek:
> Crashdump was attached.
Backtrace, to be more precise.
Johannes
Hi,
Am Mittwoch, dem 22.11.2023 um 10:18 +0100 schrieb
kristoffer...@tuta.io:
> I caught this today thru gdb and Firefox 120.0-1 on my dual G5:
>
> Thread 1 "firefox" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> i32_load8_u (addr=2016478208, mem=) at
> rlbox.wasm.c:146
> 146 rlbox.wasm.c: No su
Hi Adrian,
Am Dienstag, dem 21.11.2023 um 21:20 +0100 schrieb John Paul Adrian
Glaubitz:
>
> Please test this build which include the image decoder big-endian fix
> from VoidPPC:
>
> > https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/firefox-ppc64/test002/
>
> Adrian
>
thanks for providing the binary. It
Hi Adrian,
Am Mittwoch, dem 11.10.2023 um 15:38 +0200 schrieb John Paul Adrian
Glaubitz:
> I don't think we need to collect a lot of money, a few hundred
> dollars should
> probably be more than enough. We don't have to use Bountysource.com
> for what
> is worth. Any other platform or donation sys
Am Donnerstag, dem 31.08.2023 um 23:16 +0200 schrieb John Paul Adrian
Glaubitz:
> On Thu, 2023-08-31 at 23:06 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > Can anyone running Debian on ppc64 please give it a try?
>
> It might crash because of this bug:
>
> > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cg
Hi Adrian,
just wanted to thank you for your ongoing perservering and
knowledgeable effort to keep supporting PowerPCs!
I think you're on the right track! Even though I don't find time to
boot my PowerPCs often these days, each time I do I'm happy they `apt
upgrade` and still work.
So your work
Hello,
trying to update to the package mentioned above configuration of the
package using dpkg crashes my iBook G4 (system halts, does not react to
anything anymore) in a reproducable manner.
Any hints on how to debug this?
Thanks
Johannes
Hello everyone,
I installed the CD image from snapshot 2022-03-28 [1], which I burned
using my PowerMac G5 [2]. Installation just went very fine.
Thanks a lot to Adrian for making this happen!
After installation I encountered some issues which could easily be
solved by applying some quick and di
Am Sonntag, dem 27.03.2022 um 16:17 -0400 schrieb Jeffrey Walton:
> I don't know about the G4's, but I know about the G5's. You cannot
> boot a G5 from USB. You have to burn a CD and boot from the CD.
Booting a G5 PowerMac 11,2 from USB works well, I don't know about the
older ones.
See this mail
Hello Adrian,
Am Montag, dem 27.12.2021 um 11:42 +0100 schrieb John Paul Adrian
Glaubitz:
> Until that has happened, please stick to the images that are known to
> work or wait until I release new
> images with the missing temporary hacks implemented and which I am
> declaring as "supposed to work
Am Samstag, dem 18.12.2021 um 09:19 +0100 schrieb John Paul Adrian
Glaubitz:
> Use a different, known to work image.
Sorry, that's my bad. Did not know only certain images are supposed to
work.
Johannes
Am Mittwoch, dem 15.12.2021 um 16:32 +0100 schrieb Steffen Grunewald:
> I've followed this path for my Powerbook G4, and while installation
>
> from CD went surprisingly fine, I eventually got an error from the
>
> GRUB installer - which claimed not to be able to find /dev/sda3 :(
>
> I did a "
Am Dienstag, dem 14.12.2021 um 17:12 -0800 schrieb Rick Thomas:
> What is the URL for the latest Debian installer iso for a powerpc
> (32-bit, G4) macintosh?
>
> Is there anything I need to do (e.g. manually add a few lines to
> sources.list after/during the install) other than the the normal
> in
Hello Adrian,
On 25 May 2021, at 17:18, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
"contrib" and "non-free" have not been added for Debian Ports yet, I
will ping the responsible
admin again. In the meantime, I will build the hfsprogs package and
upload it manually for powerpc
and ppc64 later today.
p
Hello,
when trying to update to Kernel version 5.10.0-7 I recognized that my
HFS partition at /boot/grub is mounted as read-only now. I am missing
any tools like fsck.hfs or the package hfsprogs to check the partition
and to mount it rw.
As the partition is read-only my system did not break
On 25 Apr 2021, at 18:01, James Madgwick wrote:
Ultimately I don't think being forced to use fbdev
really matters, these old GPUs have nothing to offer beyond 3D
acceleration - which has little application on this system in 2021. It
would however be interesting to see if this radeon slowness i
Hello James,
On 24 Apr 2021, at 22:32, James Madgwick wrote:
james@PowerMac-G5:~$ firefox
Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[0][GFX1-]: glxtest: No
visuals found (t=4.23128) [GFX1-]: glxtest: No visuals found Crash
Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[0][GFX1-]: glxtest: No visuals
found
On 17 Apr 2021, at 10:19, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
This is likely correct. I experienced the same issue when trying to
boot from USB.
I just burned a plain old bootable CD and things worked fine.
Yep, I think that both of you are correct. I had no trouble to boot from
USB using this OF comman
Hey David,
On 16 Apr 2021, at 13:56, David VANTYGHEM wrote:
In english : The boot partition isn't the first primary partition on
the disk. This is necessary to boot the machine. Please restart and
use the first primary partition as boot partition.
If you don't come back to the partition menu
On 16 Apr 2021, at 13:54, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
But the image is blessed in HFS vocabulary. If you insert such a CD
and press the
key during boot, the CD will be selectable during boot.
Ok, good to know. Then I suppose the Mac’s firmware just won’t
detect it if it’s copied to a
Hello Adrian,
On 16 Apr 2021, at 11:40, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
As promised, new images:
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2021-04-16/
ppc64 should install fine on PowerMac G5 now.
hooray! It works - smoothly! Very great! 🎉
Really nice. To say it with words li
On 16 Apr 2021, at 8:43, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
But that's an issue with how the image was assembled, not with the
changes
per se. I don't need any additional reports on ppc64, I already saw my
mistake.
Great, thank you. Would you like to point us the fresh image once it’s
there
Hi Adrian,
thanks for your work again!
On 14 Apr 2021, at 22:43, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Let me know how the image works for you, then I can commit the changes
for
the grub-installer package to git when we know it works for most
people for
the time being.
I now found some time to
Hi Adrian,
this is very great. Thank you very much!
On 14 Apr 2021, at 22:43, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Let me know how the image works for you, then I can commit the changes for
> the grub-installer package to git when we know it works for most people for
> the time being.
Is this mea
On 27 Feb 2021, at 14:10, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
I'm pretty sure, it does. I have used it myself.
I can confirm it works.
You are even able to install on a PowerMac G5 using the broken image if
you follow those hints:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2021/01/msg00035.html
On 27 Feb 2021, at 14:10, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
I'm pretty sure, it does. I have used it myself.
I can confirm it works.
You are even able to install on a PowerMac G5 using the broken image if
you follow these hints:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2021/01/msg00035.html
Hello everyone,
just to resolve this issue: I had no luck with whatsoever setup.
I now just exchanged the HD5770 with a regular PC BIOS HD 6570 (half the
price) and it boots without problems. I connect the display to the card,
start lightdm via systemctl and get the image.
So it probably was
On 8 Feb 2021, at 14:45, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
This path looks wrong - according to the aliases listing at
https://www.mail-archive.com/misc@openbsd.org/msg164291.html the unit
address of the k2-sata device which is a child of the k2-sata-root
device should be 0, whereas above it is given
On 2021-02-03 19:28:45 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
wrote:
On 2/3/21 4:35 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
The MDB is still corrupted, so I have to look into that:
And fixed:
Great work, thank you!
Johannes
Hello Adrian,
thank you for your work and your approach towards fixing this issue.
On 2 Feb 2021, at 16:41, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 2/2/21 4:24 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
In order to solve this issue, we have a couple of options:
- Use HFS instead of HFS+ and use the o
Thank you.
On 1 Feb 2021, at 12:42, Michel Dänzer wrote:
Is the firmware-amd-graphics / firmware-linux-nonfree package
installed?
Yes, firmware is installed.
If yes, I'd suggest booting with
modprobe.blacklist=radeon
on the kernel command line (this will prevent the radeon kernel driver
Hello Luigi,
On 1 Feb 2021, at 7:14, luigi burdo wrote:
for have the radeon work is need to play with yaboot kernel append
options,
here my shared experience with ubuntu communty.
[[PPC] Instruction for Install Ubuntu & sons on PowerMac G5 Quad with
Radeon HD [Archive] - Ubuntu
Forums]
Hello Karl,
On 31 Jan 2021, at 14:40, Karl wrote:
as you can see in the picture, q66 is using a 6470.
Coincidentally, I just found a post in the Linux on PowerPC Mac
Facebook group from someone who also uses a 5770 on Void Linux. He
also had problems. But then changed his xorg file back to t
On 30 Jan 2021, at 23:18, Karl wrote:
The maintainer of VoidLinux has also a Terascale running in his G5:
https://imgur.com/Drt5KYo
What about the xorg.log or xorg config file? Maybe you have to
blacklist the other card in Grub?
Regarding X1900, the Mac Edition won’t work on Linux, because of
Hello,
On 26 Jan 2021, at 15:24, luigi burdo wrote:
i had been test linux with G5 Quad . Quadro 7800Gtx in 16x slot,
radeonhd on 8x slot.
Result, it work with mesa 3D enabled on 4650, 5450, 6570, and R5 220.
only 2D working with SI cards 7750, r7 250 because mesa crash for
endianess someware.
On 27 Jan 2021, at 2:27, Alex Perez wrote:
It's possible, and basically involves re-purposing the modem
interface, which is really just a serial port. See
http://www.geethree.com/stealth/ for more information.
Thank you for that hint. Not that cheap and it says dual core G5s are
excluded:
t
Ciao
Luigi
Da: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Inviato: martedì 26 gennaio 2021 15:14
A: Linux User #330250
Cc: Johannes Brakensiek ;
debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
Oggetto: Re: Radeon HD 5770
Hi!
On 1/26/21 3:06 PM, Linux User #330250 wrote:
If the card doesn't have a Firmware
Hello everyone,
I’m thinking of getting a Radeon HD 5770 from a Mac Pro for my
PowerMac 11,2. Did anyone try to this? Are there PPC drivers/firmware
that are going to work with this card? (I know Mac OS X Leopard won’t
work with this, but this mail is not about that. ;))
Thank you
Johannes
Hello everyone,
On 10 Jan 2021, at 23:48, Johannes Brakensiek wrote:
Regarding the manual installation of GRUB I took some time to study
that tutorial (and try some first steps), but it looks like that is
for those knowing the powerful way of the boot path warrior. I am
showing great respect
Hello Adrian,
thank you for your reply!
On 9 Jan 2021, at 13:30, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 1/8/21 9:08 PM, Johannes Brakensiek wrote:
and a happy new year to you. Thanks to Covid19-based restrictions I
returned to a
Mac PPC (PowerMac 11,2) the last days to rejoin the Apple hardware
Hello everyone,
and a happy new year to you. Thanks to Covid19-based restrictions I
returned to a Mac PPC (PowerMac 11,2) the last days to rejoin the Apple
hardware party of my youth and do happy compiling on PPC64.
My attempts were not that lucky at all because each turn of trying to
instal
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