Re: Yaboot won't boot OS X with Ubuntu/OS X dual boot Power Mac G5.

2006-01-24 Thread Noah Slater
If you swap the physical location of your hard drives around so that your primary drive is sitting in the secondary drive bay - do you still experience problems? When I was trying to install, Yaboot refused to boot into Debian unless it's partition was located on the primary disk. HTH, Noah On

kernel image 2.6.15 sbp2 problem Unknown symbol bus_to_virt

2006-01-19 Thread Noah Slater
Hi, I am using Debian unstable and recently upgraded the kernel to 2.6.15-1-powerpc65. I noticed that firewire support seems to be broken as my iPod would no longer mount. After googling a little I found that modprobe sbp2 should insert one of the correct module to enable firewire support.

Re: Sound on PowerMac G5

2005-05-09 Thread Noah Slater
Simply that the current powermac alsa sound driver doesn't have support for the G5. I implemented some simple support in later kernels which should make analog work on some desktop G5s, but not digital yet. It's in 2.6.12-rc4 Aha, thank you for the info. I am a little confused by what you

Re: Sound on PowerMac G5

2005-05-09 Thread Noah Slater
Wow, thanks for clearing that up - you have no idea how many days I have been trying to find this out on google. Excuse my ignorance if I ask you a further question. With analoug suport, would my G5 be able to play music via say rhythmbox or another media player? I don't realy know much about

Triple display problems with XFree86 (Possible ATI driver problem?)

2005-04-10 Thread Noah Slater
Hello, i have just installed Debian and am having problems getting XFree86 to work with my setup I have three displays driven by an (APG) ATI Radeon 9600 and a (PCI) ATI Radeon 7000. I have attached the output from 'lspci' for further information. Running startx initialy (after the debian