sbuild of python2.7 - fails for crazy dependencies

2024-05-10 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, brief summary: --- sudo sbuild-createchroot unstable debian-powerpc --arch=powerpc --include=debian-ports-archive-keyring --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-ports-archive-keyring.gpg http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports dget

Re: setting up a sbuild chroot - which key?

2024-05-10 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Yes, you need “buildd”. Oh, I thought that buildd was only for participating in debian build not for local builds. So let me retry: sudo sbuild-createchroot unstable debian-powerpc --arch=powerpc --variant=buildd --include=debian-ports-archive-keyring

Re: setting up a sbuild chroot - which key?

2024-05-09 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, perhaps I'm loosing myself in a glass of water here. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: You include the keyring when creating the chroot using the "--include" option: # sbuild-createchroot unstable /srv/chroot/unstable-powerpc \ --arch=powerpc --variant=buildd

Re: setting up a sbuild chroot - which key?

2024-05-03 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hello, no hint for me which key to use? or if I miss one, where to get it? I have apt-get working, so I think I have the key. Riccardo Riccardo Mottola wrote: Hi! I separate the thread - since it is specific to setting up a viable sbuild environment. The goal is to have the simplest

setting up a sbuild chroot - which key?

2024-04-16 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi! I separate the thread - since it is specific to setting up a viable sbuild environment. The goal is to have the simplest and smallest enviornoment to build source packages, in my case pyhon 2.7 I need the chroot. I read jeffrey's suggestions as well as wiki [1] I am trying this: sudo

Re: Performing dist-upgrade on powerpc and ppc64

2024-04-16 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Adrian, so you suggest to use powerful scripts. Ok, got dget (from devscripts) and sbuild. Added my user do sbuild group. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: You can fetch the source from here: $ dget

Re: Performing dist-upgrade on powerpc and ppc64

2024-04-14 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Adrian, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Python 2.7 was removed from Debian unstable in December 2022 [1]. The motivations for the removal are explained in [2]. I supposed so, just asked for confirmation. I don't care much about the motivations - I need it as a build dependency. I

Re: Performing dist-upgrade on powerpc and ppc64

2024-04-04 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Adrian, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: First run "apt update", then "apt upgrade" and make sure every package is updated without issues. Once that has passed, you may try to run "apt dist-upgrade" but before you confirm the dist-upgrade, make sure that nothing is purged you still need.

Re: git disappeared - dependencies broken

2024-03-25 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Debian unstable is currently undergoing a massive transition to switch > 32-bit architectures to 64-bit time_t as announced last month: >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2024/02/msg0.html >>

git disappeared - dependencies broken

2024-03-25 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, I did an "apt-get dist-upgrade" today and my git disappeared. When I tried to readd it I get: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been

Re: No video signal on iBook G4 with latest kernel

2024-01-24 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Adrian, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Correct, there is an issue with the brightness controls. It sometimes randomly turns the screen off, even when turning it to maximum setting. Then when you change the settings again randomly, the video comes back. Still, this needs to be bisected.

glx on AGP 9200 radeon on iBook G4 failure

2024-01-24 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, if I try to run glxgears on my iBook G4, it dies with this error: radeon: Invalid PCI ID. glx: failed to create dri2 screen failed to load driver: radeonsi LLVM ERROR: Relocation type not implemented yet! lspci says: :00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

Re: No video signal on iBook G4 with latest kernel

2024-01-24 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Adrian, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: just as a heads-up: I'm not getting a video signal with my iBook G4 with the latest kernel. dmesg shows error messages that seem to be related to the problem: [ 14.222735] radeon :00:10.0: [drm] bpp/depth value of 16/16 not supported [

power management PMU flags and battery Info

2023-12-21 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, I am giving a refresh to the GNUstep BatteryMonitor [*] and was checking its support to PMU. Right now it ignores battery flags and thought of using them, but they appear to give bad data on my iBook. I found in the linux kernel doc

Re: What are the current available browser options for debian-ppc64?

2023-11-19 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Ken, Ken Cunningham wrote: > I am aware of a few projects out there working to try to keep a repackaged > TenFourFox going that have *.deb archives available, and I think there are > some official channels for a few different browsers inside debian (Firefox, > Epiphany). I don't know what

Re: Problems with 32 bit PPC upgrading/autoremoving on '04 iBook G4

2023-09-15 Thread Riccardo Mottola
H Fritz, Fritz Hudnut wrote: Adrian: Just providing feedback on the Debian Sid/PPC install that I ran a couple months back and then today did an apt dist-upgrade that brought in 489 packages.  Because the machine has a 933 MHz cpu it doesn't do anything too fast, but it did get through the

Re: Fork of current version of »hfs« package

2023-05-30 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Lennart, Lennart Sorensen wrote: I had a poke at it, dealt with a couple of compile issues, then encountered Blocks and went WTF did Apple invent here? I don't even understand the description of their proprietary extension to C/C++/ObjC. I had never seen code with ^ prefixed to things in

Re: Succes! Thanks!

2023-03-29 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Gabriel, On 2023-03-24 08:27:36 +0100 Gabriel Paubert wrote: 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

Succes! Thanks!

2023-03-23 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi All! if you can read it.. it means that my iBook is rocking. X11 and WiFi (Airport) included. For weeks X11 and ATI drivers were broken beyond usage. I performed a full system upgrade. 6.1.0-7-powerpc #1 Debian 6.1.20-1 (2023-03-19) ppc GNU/Linux :00:10.0 VGA compatible controller:

Re: Is a Raptor Blackbird (or other Power machine) a good general-purpose desktop?

2023-03-22 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Didier Kryn wrote: >     Another concern is that a software which does run only on one single > endianness proves to be buggy and loosely written. High level software > such as Firefox should be independant of such considerations, exactly as > it should not rely on internal details of the

Re: Is a Raptor Blackbird (or other Power machine) a good general-purpose desktop?

2023-03-22 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Lionel Élie Mamane wrote: > Thanks for the link, interesting and I didn't know about this one > indeed. Beyond "not available this year", I see the one-but least FAQ > https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/faq/ > says that it won't run a "modern distro" in little-endian mode, as > "although it

Re: ATI mach64 driver disappeared

2022-11-26 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Adrian(s)! On 11/17/22 19:35, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi Riccardo! On 11/14/22 23:32, Riccardo Mottola wrote: did you make the driver available somewhere? I just tried an update today and same old issue: The following packages have unmet dependencies:   xserver-xorg-video-mach64

Re: ATI mach64 driver disappeared

2022-11-14 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Adrian & Adrian, did you make the driver available somewhere? I just tried an update today and same old issue: The following packages have unmet dependencies:  xserver-xorg-video-mach64 : Depends: xorg-video-abi-24 but it is not installable E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken

GL failure in iBook G4

2022-09-14 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hello, while on my PowerBook OpenGL works (both in a browser as well in minimal test case glxgears) on my iBook G4 not: $ glxgears radeon: Invalid PCI ID. libGL error: glx: failed to create dri2 screen libGL error: failed to load driver: radeonsi LLVM ERROR: Relocation type not implemented

Re: ATI mach64 driver disappeared

2022-09-12 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > There is an FTBFS with the driver that needs to be fixed [1]. > > However, there is an upstream patch available that fixes the issue plus > there is also a newer upstream version available [2] which should fix the > problem as well [3]. > > @Adrian: Could

ATI mach64 driver disappeared

2022-09-12 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hello, I did a major dist-upgrade on my old iBook G3 clamshell. It wasn't without minor hiccups... perhaps also because I didn't do it in many months. I suppose open-jdk and all the related java studd don't work properly because the failed to configure, however, I never used them but were only a

Re: ATI rage Pro on iMac G3

2022-09-12 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi David, David VANTYGHEM wrote: > I installed last ISO of Debian for PowerPC. All is fine but screen is > blank, xserver doesn't start. Following Adrian advice, I installed > xserver-xorg-video-r128package but there's no changes. Must I type > something particular after installing this package

Re: > 1000 updates, nearly 1 GB, all successful...

2022-08-23 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hello, I also updated my PowerBook G4 (which has grub) and my iBook G4 (which has lilo) and it all works fine too!  I just did a quick test, but seems working. (*) Soon I will attempt on my iBook G3 then! (*) actually, I noticed that on my iBook using Arcitcfox WebGL does not work, on the

Re: Off-Topic: G5 Open Firmware instability

2022-05-16 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Tony, to...@suse.de wrote: > Right now it's running 3.0 Linux kernel. It's overheating. It will > boot into X11 and remain up pretty much indefinitely if the load > average remains under 1.5. If I start Firefox I'll get a spike > (log warnings from Windfarm that the temp is "overtemp"

Re: Request for a once-montly PowerPC for Apple Systems FAQ?

2022-02-01 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Ken, Ken Cunningham wrote: > > All your excellent work deserves to be used! So make it easier for > people, is all I'm about here. I understand where you are. I have long experience with PPC and Linux and yet an install was not easy, depending on the flux of packages We could start with

Re: libffi illegal instruction - again

2021-12-15 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hello Adrian John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I forgot to upload the manually built package for 32-bit powerpc which I have > done > now. The fixed package should be available on the FTP servers within the next > six > hours. The issue was indeed on 32bit PPC as Efraim mentioned. Thank you

Re: X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

2021-12-15 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi! Riccardo Mottola wrote: > an update on this - Last kernel 5.15 works fine on my PowerBook again! > Will test now on my iBooks and also on the iMac where I never had issues > however. Good news. X11 is working again: * clamshell iBook G3 * white iBook G4 * iMac G5 iSight (neve

Re: libffi illegal instruction - again

2021-12-11 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, On 2021-11-03 19:09:05 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > The problem is not exclusive to PowerPC but also SPARC and 32-bit x86. It > used to work before with version 3.4.2 in experimental: > > See: >

Re: X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

2021-12-11 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hello, an update on this - Last kernel 5.15 works fine on my PowerBook again! Will test now on my iBooks and also on the iMac where I never had issues however. Riccardo -- Sent with GNUMail running on MacOS 10.7

Re: libffi illegal instruction - again

2021-10-25 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Adrian , John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > a) Upstream doesn't care and has not even looked at the issue yet: That's worrying. > >> https://github.com/libffi/libffi/issues/662 > b) Debian's libffi maintainer hasn't understood the problem and assume it's >just a matter of passing the

libffi illegal instruction - again

2021-10-25 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi all, just to note that the libffi issues are back. I believe Adrian put in some patched version with a workaround, which with the latest update stopped working again? Riccardo

Re: Aptitude Problem PPC 32-bit

2021-10-25 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Dan Whitehouse wrote: > I've got a Powermac G4 running debian ppc32. > I've noticed a potential issue with aptitude. > If I run "aptitude update" I notice it never seems to complete. > It'll use 18% or so of my RAM (which is about 450mb I believe) but no > CPU. It isn't swapping. with

Re: X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

2021-10-12 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, On 2021-10-07 09:18:09 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello Riccardo! On 10/7/21 03:39, Riccardo Mottola wrote: Did you see the error I am getting about BIOS ROM at boot? Do you get it too? This isn't an error, it's just what you expect on a non-x86 system. Graphics cards

Re: X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

2021-10-12 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hello Stan, thanks for the testing time. I tested these kernels from mainline Linux on the Cube: 5.14.0 works 5.15.0-rc3 works 5.15.0-rc4-00019-g5af4055fa813 works Kernel 5.14.9 from www.kernel.org also works. Running "apt-get install kernel-source" downloads: "linux-source-5.14

Re: X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

2021-10-06 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Stan, On 2021-10-06 16:59:36 + Stan Johnson wrote: I can confirm that X is not working on a PowerPC G4 Cube with the stock Debian kernel "vmlinux-5.14.0-2-powerpc". X does work with the stock Debian kernel "vmlinux-5.10.0-8-powerpc". In both cases, I'm using the latest Debian SID

Re: X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

2021-10-05 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Darn! X doesn't work on my PowerBook G4 too! I was so happy that the 5.14-2 kernel did boot successfully with a console, but it does not start X, black screen, exactly as on the iBook. Contrary to the iBook, the PowerBook has been updated to the very latest possible packages, including

X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

2021-10-05 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, I carefully upgraded kernel and other selected packages on my trusty iBook and see how it goes. The iMac G5 runs smooth (except for libffi issues) with current kernel and Debian the PowerBook adds to this latest kernel issues, but for the rest it has "only" the libffi issue. How would

Re: 5.14 fails to boot early on a PowerBook

2021-10-05 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Stan, On 28/09/2021 01:49, Stan Johnson wrote: Which G4 PowerBook are using? To my knowledge it is one of the absolutely latest PowerBook models, with USB keyboard (lots of issues!). multix@Auryn:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor   : 0 cpu : 7447A, altivec supported

Re: after Debian update most apps crash - libffi issue?

2021-09-28 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Adrian John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> > > It’s been moved: > > > http://incoming.ports.debian.org/buildd/packages/sid/main/ > Thanks. I got from there libffi8_3.4.2-2+b1_powerpc.deb I replaced the one I compiled myself and I immediately get illegal instruction in a libffi-using app. I

Re: after Debian update most apps crash - libffi issue?

2021-09-28 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hello, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > It's not being built with -mnative as far I could tell from the logs. > > But you can verify whether this is the case or not by building the > Debian package on your local machine: > > $ apt-get install devscripts > $ dget -u >

Re: after Debian update most apps crash - libffi issue?

2021-09-28 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hello Adrian John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > $ wget http://incoming.ports.debian.org/libffi8_3.4.2-2+b1_powerpc.deb > $ dpkg -i libffi8_3.4.2-2+b1_powerpc.deb > > For ppc64: > > $ wget http://incoming.ports.debian.org/libffi8_3.4.2-2+b1_ppc64.deb > $ dpkg -i libffi8_3.4.2-2+b1_ppc64.deb I can

Re: after Debian update most apps crash - libffi issue?

2021-09-27 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, just for info - the issue happens also on PowerPC G4 32bit. strange nobody else shares this? Riccardo

5.14 fails to boot early on a PowerBook

2021-09-27 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, I upgraded the kernel only PowerBook G4 (late model) and it doesn't boot. Quickly after exiting OF: root: recovering journal root: clean, 373541/5865472 files, 5215323/23437500 blocks and stays there forever. If I take the old 5.10 kernel it still boots. No "Recovering journal" message

Re: after Debian update most apps crash - libffi issue?

2021-09-27 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: No I cannot, 3.4.2 (cleaned, reconfigured, installed) seems to work fine out of the box. So either the release is not well tagged, or there is an issue with the Debian package. You could try rebuilding the libffi Debian package locally and see if that

Re: after Debian update most apps crash - libffi issue?

2021-09-26 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Adrian, On 2021-09-26 18:34:47 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 9/26/21 19:31, Riccardo Mottola wrote: Would you like me to build the latest "release" of libffi ? Yes, please test the 3.4.2 release by checking out the "v3.4.2" tag: $ git checkou

Re: after Debian update most apps crash - libffi issue?

2021-09-26 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Adrian, On 2021-09-26 15:43:02 +0200 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 9/26/21 15:39, Riccardo Mottola wrote: That's a bit a similar issue with building libffi locally. In /usr/local I am unsure it would be picked up. I can of course still do it and perhaps have GNUstep pick it up

Re: after Debian update most apps crash - libffi issue?

2021-09-26 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hello Adrian, On 2021-09-26 13:54:33 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! On 9/26/21 14:36, Riccardo Mottola wrote: I upgraded my iMac G5 to latest debian, including kernel 5.14 ! The good thing is that the new kernel boots and X11 comes up. The bad news is lots of applications

Re: ATA problems on G4 and G5 - was: Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-21

2021-09-26 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hello, On 2021-09-23 10:13:52 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello Kristoffer! On 9/23/21 11:10, kristoffer...@tuta.io wrote: After upgrading to 5.14.6, both my G5 and G4 machines won't boot with this kernel. They stop at this: ata1.00 failed to set xfermode (err_mask =

after Debian update most apps crash - libffi issue?

2021-09-26 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, I upgraded my iMac G5 to latest debian, including kernel 5.14 ! The good thing is that the new kernel boots and X11 comes up. The bad news is lots of applications crash and they all have one thing in common, libffi. So e.g. a build of ArcticFox fails: multix@PPC970FX:~/code/Arctic-Fox$

Re: Altivec in baseline for ppc64?

2021-07-18 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: It depends on the workload, of course. Anything that does SIMD like matrix multiplications in multimedia or scientific computing will, of course, profit from enabling AltiVec. No one claimed that AltiVec, MMX or SSE will just improve everything.

Re: OT: Huge Right to Repair Win for Consumers

2021-06-30 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Stan Johnson wrote: > Here's a more recent example: I've been trying to figure out how to > install a more modern Linux kernel on a PowerMac 6100. More than 20 > years ago, Apple teamed up with the now-defunct OSF to use the Mach 3.0 > microkernel along with Apple's customized version of a

Re: Bug#741663: linux-image-3.13-1-powerpc-smp: therm_windtunnel does not load correctly

2021-05-09 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Adrian, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Yes and no. I am quite optimistic the bug was fixed with a patch which is included upstream since 4.19-rc1. It still needs confirmation, though, i.e. testing. The PowerMac G5 users on this list are kindly asked to confirm the bug has been fixed.

Re: Some questions, plus hfsprogs is missing

2021-04-27 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hello James, On 25/04/2021 18:01, James Madgwick wrote: On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 11:17:28 +0200 Johannes Brakensiek wrote: Thanks. I've set up up that repository and I'm now happily using ArcticFox. As an aside, I had also tried Konqueror - it has the same problem as firefox. Epiphany did work

Re: Update on Rage 128 support?

2021-04-18 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, On 4/15/21 5:53 PM, Alex McKeever wrote: As in, are the drivers actually working now? The last time we discussed this, someone built it and it didn’t seem to work. This effects all Linux distributions, including Adelie, which is a new distribution that uses an APK package format (not

Re: VLC on G5 crash : illegal instruction

2021-03-14 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, On 3/8/21 9:49 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: We certainly shouldn't disable the whole JIT over a single instruction but rather check whether this instruction can be guarded on older POWER systems. But we need to find out first which instruction triggers the SIGILL. Indeed, it

Re: VLC on G5 crash : illegal instruction

2021-03-07 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Adrian! On 2021-03-06 15:22:02 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Please install the dbgsym/dbg package for VLC and ffmpeg and provide a backtrace. Most likely someone added VSX support to either of them without guarding the code with #ifdefs. the issue is most probably in

VLC on G5 crash : illegal instruction

2021-03-06 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, I just tried VLC on a G5... it starts but as soon as I try to open a file, it dies "inside" the file selector! Not just a file, trying to click on my home directory, I get illegal instruction.ù If I give it a MP4 on the command line, it will come up and then die with illegal

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

2021-03-06 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Luke, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: just to confirm: that's definitely "setting machine to capabilities that the machine doesn't have, then requesting that feature and gcc 10 says 'ok'" yes? i do not know the exact machine, let us assume it is -mg3. the options being passed are

Re: Donations

2021-03-06 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Since original discussion evolved around the G3 beige model, I would prefer if the community found a cheap G3 beige model to work on for me. Also, the G3 beige tower takes less space as compared to the iMac. Would a 9600 "last model" be of interest?

Re: iMac G3 r128 - failed to load module "r128"

2021-03-03 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi! John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Good news on this issue: Adrian Bunk has kindly stepped up and is working on > re-adding > the legacy driver packages to the Debian archive [1]. So users will be able > to use > X on the affected machines in the near future again. Good news then! > If

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

2021-03-02 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Luke, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > 1.5 and 1.9 never had SIMD / VMX / VSX so there shouldn't be a problem > (for G5). > > which, coming back to the original question, i'm not seeing a reason > why disabling altivec should not compile. > > unless, of course, there have been

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

2021-03-02 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Gabriel, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > This is going to be hopelessly slow. The point of SIMD is to process > quickly vast amounts of data, the overhead of every single emulated > instructions is counted in hundreds of cycles. > > IMHO, the only solution is to: > a) only use SIMD in library code >

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

2021-03-02 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > This causes a big issue if you want to compile a non-Altivec build on > a capable processor like the G4: it will automatically enabled even if > you don't want. > E.g. if I want to build on a G4 a binary working on the G3, I can't. I > specify -m

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

2021-02-28 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hello, I was checkin gout a specific patch Adrian made for Firefox, which should help building on non-Altivec capable CPUs. https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/commit/c6b39f0f902898988ca7793af56307640ff81362 I have imported it in ArcticFox with this commit and tested it.

Success report G3 & G4 update

2021-01-26 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi all! we all report issues and I myself seem to report only problems (like the inability to use GRUB on an iMac) and install issues. But let's see the bright things! However I did an upgrade run on the said iMac G5.. but also on my PowerBook G4 and my vintage iBook G3 clamshell... and

Re: iMac G5 "windfarm"

2021-01-09 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Once Linux is fully installed, the system runs quiet when doing nothing (console prompt) and remains quiet when doing several things (also unexpected ones). There were multiple bugs in the windfarm drivers in the upstream kernel such as [1], make sure you

Re: iMac G5 "windfarm"

2020-12-31 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hey Rick! On 12/31/20 4:36 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: You have vmlinux -> vmlinux-5.9.0-5-powerpc64 But there is no actual file named "vmlinux-5.9.0-5-powerpc64" in the directory. Maybe that's your problem? keen eyes, you spotted it! very strange to happen, the file mas missing. I

Re: firmware - nonfree repository

2020-12-31 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Adrian! On 12/31/20 12:31 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Right now, I have configured what Adrian suggested in a mail a couple of months ago: You need to add this line: deb [arch=all]http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable contrib non-free thank you for the prompt response! That

firmware - nonfree repository

2020-12-30 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, I just noticed I have this issue seen in dmesg: [   21.449826] radeon :04:00.0: firmware: failed to load radeon/R300_cp.bin (-2) [   21.449835] radeon :04:00.0: Direct firmware load for radeon/R300_cp.bin failed with error -2 [   21.450016] [drm:.r100_cp_init [radeon]] *ERROR*

Re: iMac G5 "windfarm"

2020-12-30 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Mathieu, On 12/30/20 10:22 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: There was a regression at some point, did you check: *https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2020/03/msg00035.html What's your kernel version ? Right now, it apparently is an older version: Linux PPC970FX 4.16.0-1-powerpc64 #1

G5 compilation speed vs G4

2020-12-30 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, now that the iMac G5 is up and running, I did run the same build task as on my iBook G4 and PowerBook G4, where I already found some differences in speed, given a similar CPU and setup - We attribtuted them to the quite much faster disk in the iBook. Now comes the G5 (PPC970fx) which

iMac G5 "windfarm"

2020-12-30 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, it is my first time I run linux on an iMac G5 and have some doubts about its cooling. I noticed that while installing Debian, the fan spins at full speed and it really deserves the term "windfarm", it is as loud as a vacuum cleaner. Once Linux is fully installed, the system runs quiet

Re: Updated installer images 2020-12-02

2020-12-29 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Adrian, On 12/28/20 9:51 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: You should try to install one of the Yaboot images to make sure there is no problem with your machine. That could be a check to perform... where is the last working yaboot image to be found?

Re: Updated installer images 2020-12-02

2020-12-29 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, On 12/28/20 9:51 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: You should try to install one of the Yaboot images to make sure there is no problem with your machine. That could be a check to perform... where is the last working yaboot image to be found?

Re: Successfully installed Debian 10 on Lombard G3 PowerMac

2020-12-28 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, On 12/28/20 9:31 PM, Alex Perez wrote: Hi folks, I just wanted to share that I was able to succesfully boot and install Debian 10 using the "official" Debian 10 netinst CD from [1], with the exception of the bootloader, which failed, and I had to handle manually. I also tried booting from

Re: Updated installer images 2020-12-02

2020-12-28 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Adrian, On 12/28/20 1:53 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Well, it's broken at the moment and I will fix that within the next days. what are you going to fix? the glibc issue you say shouldn't matter. I did another interesting thing. I run the "expert installation" of the most

Re: Updated installer images 2020-12-02

2020-12-27 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi! On 12/27/20 2:49 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: You are confusing hfsprogs and hfsutils. The former is actually missing on the FTP server. The confusion arises because I found this in the logs: Dec 25 15:29:46 in-target: hfsutils: not found Dec 25 15:29:46 in-target: Dec 25

Re: Updated installer images 2020-12-02

2020-12-27 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Adrian On 12/27/20 11:19 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: I have read previous threads about hfsutils, but thought they were fixed, as per your mail with Frank Scheiner. I cannot make any further tests to the grub-installer code at the moment since we need to fix the partman issue

Re: Updated installer images 2020-12-02

2020-12-25 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Adrian, On 12/25/20 2:20 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: This has all been debugged and discussed on the list. I just hadn't had the time to continue working on the issues with partman yet. I have read the threads with Dennis, but found no solution, conclusion about it. Can you

Re: Updated installer images 2020-12-02

2020-12-24 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, since the 2020-12-03 image did not work (installs, but system does not boot) I tried walking back in time... and see 2020-12-03: installs, no boot 2020-11-16: installs, no boot 2020-10-13: broken image, installer starts, but finds "no device for installation media was detected"

Re: Updated installer images 2020-12-02

2020-12-23 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, On 12/3/20 3:05 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi! I uploaded updated Debian installer CD images today. These come with the latest versions of the kernel and the debian-installer application as well as various other updates. The images can be found at the usual location [1] as well

Re: poor relative G4 performance iBook/PowerBook

2020-12-09 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Brian Morris wrote: % time cat huge_file_copy Install smartctl to check drive health I also have a PowerBook 1ghz which is quite a bit faster than my 1.5ghz tho could be because the former has a bit more ram and a newer hard drive and the latter has a defective 2nd ram slot I wanted

Re: kernel 5.9 no keyboard on PowerBook

2020-12-09 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Stan Johnson wrote: Adrian, Yes, the 5.9.0 kernel works on my PB G4 12".  The built-in keyboard is detected as ADB.  In a Google search, everything I was able to find indicated that G4 PowerBooks use ADB for their built-in keyboards and trackpads. I can say that 5.7 kernels recognize the

poor relative G4 performance iBook/PowerBook

2020-11-13 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi! I develop on both an iBook G4 14" (should be one of the latest model, although the motherboard ) and a PowerBook G4 17" both running debian... Although currently different kernels, minor differences. "In theory" I got the PB G4 because it should be faster than the iBook * Same CPU

Re: kernel 5.9 no keyboard on PowerBook

2020-11-07 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: I just upgraded the kernel to 5.9.0 on my PowerBook G4 - no keyboard, I cannot>even login. I reverted to 7.0-2 and everything works as expected. I do not have intermediate kernels, so I cannot tell when exactly things broke. You can find more kernel

Re: kernel 5.9 no keyboard on PowerBook

2020-11-07 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Adrian, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 11/7/20 3:33 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote> Hi! As somebody else asked, I booted, attached an USB keyboard and that one works. Is the keyboard ADB or USB? I see in the dmesg usb related messages. Whom are you asking here? Anybody who kn

Re: kernel 5.9 no keyboard on PowerBook

2020-11-07 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi! John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Just upgraded my iBook G4 with the latest unstable updates and rebooted the machine into kernel 5.9.0. Keyboard works fine and without any issues, same applies for all other hardware. The output of dmesg, /var/log/Xorg.log.0 and lspci would be helpful if

kernel 5.9 no keyboard on PowerBook

2020-10-27 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, I just upgraded the kernel to 5.9.0 on my PowerBook G4 - no keyboard, I cannot even login. I reverted to 7.0-2 and everything works as expected. I do not have intermediate kernels, so I cannot tell when exactly things broke. Anyone else experiencing similar symptoms? Riccardo

Re: PB G4 Installation

2020-05-28 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Sorry, I wasn't meaning to minimize the effort of maintaining a parallel set of non-systemd packages. And if there are only three users who are requesting such a thing, you are absolutely right, it isn't worth the effort. As I said, there is the

PowerBook GRUB success

2020-04-29 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi! just to report that I let the GRUB packages upgrade on my PowerBook G4 which was an early GRUB experiment... and nothing broke and it booted again :-P :-P Very good.. I hope this makes Debian PPC more accessible for many! Riccardo

Re: Maintaining older xorg driver packages by Debian Ports

2020-04-29 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi! Ed Robbins wrote: This sounds like a good idea. I have a number of machines affected by this issue (both G4 and x86). Is it possible to bring these packages back into debian? They work well enough for many users. I second that.. especially some of these are very useful on x86, some also

Re: Maintaining older xorg driver packages by Debian Ports

2020-04-22 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi! > > After some xorg driver packages were removed from the archive in #955603 [1] > that we still need for Debian Ports, I was wondering whether it's okay when > I take over maintainership and upload the packages to unstable as we need > them. > > I

Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19

2020-04-22 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Adrian John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > These images should finally fix the installation process on Apple > PowerMacs and PowerBooks compatible with GRUB, so basically every > Macintosh using the New World ROM [2]. > > One user already reported a successful installation on his PowerMac > G5

Re: iMac G3 support in Sid, Impossible?

2020-04-18 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hallo Michel, On 2020-04-17 12:51:31 +0200 Michel Dänzer wrote: > On 2020-04-16 7:46 p.m., Alex McKeever wrote: >> I was told that the kernel is why it doesn’t work 100%... that it needs >> User Space Modesetting and thus needs an older kernel like 2.6, 3.13 or >> 4.4.0-187 to work properly

Re: iMac G3 support in Sid, Impossible?

2020-04-18 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Alex! On 2020-04-16 19:46:19 +0200 Alex McKeever wrote: > I was told that the kernel is why it doesn’t work 100%... that it needs > User Space Modesetting and thus needs an older kernel like 2.6, 3.13 or > 4.4.0-187 to work properly at all with the Rage128. I’d hate to say it but > I’ve

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