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

2013-10-23 Thread Stewart Smith
Geert Uytterhoeven writes: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:36 AM, 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. > > For whatever definition of sm

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

2013-10-22 Thread Stewart Smith
boxes, running the actual test suite there, or maybe just to > fetch, analyse and report on the resulting log files. 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. -- Stewart Smith pgp5mcK27BGJp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: eth0 and eth1 mixed

2005-04-06 Thread Stewart Smith
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 14:10 -0500, David Stanaway wrote: > # install -m 755 /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples/get-mac-address.sh \ > /usr/local/bin An (arguably) better way would be (on 2.6 based systems) cat /sys/class/net/$ETH_DEVICE/address -- Stewart Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No mol osx driver in debian ppc sarge?

2005-03-31 Thread Stewart Smith
s - free as in $$ though. http://developer.apple.com/tools/mpw-tools/ -- Stewart Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.flamingspork.com/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: list of PowerMac sound hardware TO-DO (help welcome)

2005-03-22 Thread Stewart Smith
aving volume troubles on my Powerbook5,2 (G4 15inch 1ghz) - this fixed it. rock on. -- Stewart Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.flamingspork.com/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: extremely poor bochs performance

2005-01-23 Thread Stewart Smith
or something like that. Yes - PPC chips (up to the 970) could operate in either mode - so they switched modes as needed. Really neat trick, but broke on the G5. So they've done it a different way now (for G5s at least). -- Stewart Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.flamingspork.com/

Re: TEST: Sleep patch #7

2004-12-24 Thread Stewart Smith
e moment patch1 came out (have stayed with patch1 though). No problems (maybe one crash in the whole time). -- Stewart Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.flamingspork.com/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: ibook kernel config

2004-02-09 Thread Stewart Smith
On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 00:12, jorge salamero wrote: > anyone could point me to a kernel 2.6.2-ben? config for my ibook g3 ? http://www.flamingspork.com/linux/ibook/ link to my config (g3 500mhz icebook) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: dmasound with Linux 2.6.2 on iBook G3/500 (CX750e)

2004-02-09 Thread Stewart Smith
does it work at all or do you get strange audio artifacts (skipping like)? i'm using alsa and have noticed some strange audio artifacts - but i'm going to try the latest benh. currently running: Linux willster 2.6.2-rc1-ben1 #10 Sun Feb 1 22:50:25 EST 2004 ppc GNU/Linux On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 06

Re: XFree86 touchpad driver on iBook

2004-02-05 Thread Stewart Smith
ng around so that the apple driver could do the scroll stuff... check the archives. -- Stewart Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.flamingspork.com/

Re: X window on a beige g3/266

2004-01-30 Thread Stewart Smith
do you have all the X packages installed. I'm running Debian Unstable, and selected the appropriate tasks (run tasksel) can post my XF86Config-4 if needed - but (from memory) it was pretty simple to get going). On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 07:55, Adrian Crisan wrote: > hello all, > i've been strugling

Re: OOPS: cdrecord -scanbus on benh 2.5 tree causes oops

2004-01-21 Thread Stewart Smith
in your current tree (rsyned today). Although I just found a HFS related oops.... -- Stewart Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Vice President, Linux Australia

Re: cdrecord -scanbus on benh 2.5 tree causes oops

2004-01-20 Thread Stewart Smith
On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 01:01, Colin Leroy wrote: > ide-scsi is deprecated, maybe using cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc > would solve you problems. It helped me at least... > You only need a recent version of cdrecord. I know :) i have it compiled in, but not set for use on anything. -- Stew

OOPS: cdrecord -scanbus on benh 2.5 tree causes oops

2004-01-20 Thread Stewart Smith
(rev ff) $ uname -a Linux willster 2.6.1-rc1-ben1 #5 Wed Jan 14 14:54:54 CST 2004 ppc GNU/Linux (so probably rsynced around then) -- Stewart Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Vice President, Linux Australia signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: External monitor on an ibook 2

2004-01-19 Thread Stewart Smith
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 05:26, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > lspci > 00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Pangea AGP > 00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 > AGP 2x (rev 02) > > I can turn thge external monitor on and o

Re: 2.6 kernel on an iBook2.2

2004-01-10 Thread Stewart Smith
you actually finally booked flights? I know tridge finally has as well :) I swear, after talking to you IBM guys about this I felt positively organised for the first time in my life :) -- Stewart Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Australia Inc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: 2.6 kernel on an iBook2.2

2004-01-09 Thread Stewart Smith
:) I'm using this on my ibook2 (500mhz icebook) fine. Haven't tested firewire again yet, but it works better than on my desktop (P4) - which just switches off whenever i plug a firewire device in. been meaning to debug that -- Stewart Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Australia Inc

Re: re:no login prompt

2003-12-17 Thread Stewart Smith
either upgrade your packages, or make sure that /dev/pts is being mounted (type devpts) from /etc/fstab that should remove the need for the (now depricated) devfs. On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 20:57, Kim Wroblewski wrote: > After installing devfsd the login prompt now works for > me under 2.6.0-test11.

Re: minor sound issues on iBook with 2.6.0-test11

2003-12-08 Thread Stewart Smith
sound, not very wide range, but enough to produce beeps. It's got nothing to do on other systems - so is useless and shouldn't be needed. -- Stewart Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.flamingspork.com/

Re: Ext3 fs

2003-11-27 Thread Stewart Smith
s. > --Harvey You may have installed a 2.2 kernel (the default on woody disks IIRC) which does not support ext3, although - i'd be surprised if 2.2 worked on such modern hardware... at least at any reasonable speed... but yeah, the -j option to tune2fs mentioned in other mails wo

Re: iBook G4 800MHz configuration

2003-11-26 Thread Stewart Smith
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 02:58, Colin Leroy wrote: > Maybe it's due to the fact gcc is not as optimized on ppc as it is on x86.Or, > your ibook may not run at full speed ? I remember something like Although my guess would be that it's a simple matter of disk speed - if the x86 is a desktop, it will

Re: xfs: 2.4.22-ben2 compile pagebuf errors

2003-11-19 Thread Stewart Smith
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 19:25, Adam Done wrote: > I used a patch: patch-2.4.22-ben2-stew1-xfs.bz2 which patched without > a problem into the kernel. Are you sure you were patching on a clean tree? Remove what you have, then apply the patch again on top of vanilla 2.4.22

Re: 2.6.0-test9 kernel on xserv

2003-11-18 Thread Stewart Smith
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 12:05, Adam Done wrote: > Thanks.. I had a working kernel for the xserv but lost the config file > for the 2.4.22 kernel. That would be greate if you could. I was also > hoping to get the 2.6 to work because I really need to get xfs and afs > to work and I have not been able

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-11-18 Thread Stewart Smith
You may be encountering the issue that I (and others) had with the 600 Color (also helped at least one person with a 740), http://www.flamingspork.com/linux/doc/epson_printers.html I have a script in /etc/init.d (and appropriate run level stuff) to do this on bootup (included below). See the site

Re: VGA-out not working any longer on old TiBook 400

2003-11-03 Thread Stewart Smith
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 08:34, Percy Zahl wrote: > All I want is mirroring again for presentations...! I had to use the patch from http://www.stampflee.com/kernel/ to get it to go on my ibook with an M3. works fine now, although i have a sneaky suspicion that i may need to have a screen plugged in

Stable PPC kernels (was Re: Powerbook G4: Linux does not boot again)

2003-11-01 Thread Stewart Smith
nd-greatest from bk (or anywhere else) is problematic simply because it's "whatever the developer had at last checkin" - and not everybody leaves things in a decent state all the time :) -- Stewart Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.flamingspork.com/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: kernel 2.6.0-test8 console

2003-10-22 Thread Stewart Smith
but when I was trying tdfx on powerpc (few years ago now, maybe 2 or 2.5) there were endianness issues so all the characters came out kinda mangled - was funny, but not useful. Hopefully things have been fixed now -- Stewart Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Vice President, Linux Australia signature.

Re: Guide for Oldworld Powermac d-i test using BootX and netinst CD

2003-10-16 Thread Stewart Smith
script can build a CD with the proper MacOS resource > fork for the app? There are some ancient apps around that can > translate from macbinary, but when I've tried them they don't work > well. Look at the man page for mkisofs - it supports many ways of having the mac resource f

Re: [PATCH] Right-click modifier

2003-10-15 Thread Stewart Smith
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 01:33, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote: > The showcode command is your friend (from a text terminal, outside X). doesn't seem to be on my system, and apt-cache search shows up zip. What package does it come from? -- Stewart Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Vice Presiden

Re: share partition between macosx and debian

2003-10-14 Thread Stewart Smith
.0M) Linux swap /dev/hda13 Apple_HFS WillsterOSX14607776 @ 63532384 ( 7.0G) HFS -- Stewart Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.flamingspork.com/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [PATCH] Right-click modifier

2003-10-14 Thread Stewart Smith
do these things? i.e. how do we find the ctrl->29 mapping? -- Stewart Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Vice President, Linux Australia signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: linux-2.4.22-ben2-stew1-xfs available

2003-10-04 Thread Stewart Smith
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 04:37, Stewart Smith wrote: > I have .debs if people are interested, can upload. I've uploaded .debs for those who've indicated to me that they're too lazy to wait for a kernel to compile (i feel your pain). http://www.flamingspork.com/linux/kernel/debs

Re: linux-2.4.22-ben2-stew1-xfs available

2003-10-03 Thread Stewart Smith
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 06:59, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > This is normally a sign of an unclean kernel tree being used for > creating the patch. Yes, my bad - thought i kept that dir clean, patch updated. -- Stewart Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Vice President, Linux Australia

linux-2.4.22-ben2-stew1-xfs available

2003-10-02 Thread Stewart Smith
a BeOS CD! - A newer version of the HFS+ driver is out, head on over to http://www.ardistech.com/hfsplus/ to grab a copy. See Roman's recent LKML post for details. as always, feedback welcome. enjoy :) -- Stewart Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Vice President, Linux Australia

Re: kernel-patch-xfs

2003-09-15 Thread Stewart Smith
I've got a patch that's a combined 2.4.21-ben2-xfs, which may help as a starting point. It wasn't that bad merging the two, I just haven't gotten around to 2.4.22 yet (honors supervisors want to see work :) http://www.flamingspork.com/linux/kernel/stew-patches/patch-2.4.21-ben2-xfs.recent.bz2 You

Re: 2.6.0-test5 (benh bitkeeper)

2003-09-12 Thread Stewart Smith
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 13:57, Menaka Lashitha Bandara wrote: > Secondly, X loaded fine, but gdm failed to load completely (I have no > idea why this is). I also couldn't switch to a virtual console using the > normal combination alt-ctrl-fn-F1. r.e. gdm - i think it may have been b0rked for a few d

Re: ibook problems

2003-09-12 Thread Stewart Smith
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 16:55, Adam Hewitt wrote: > Well I think that is all of my problems at the moment. I am going to > write another HOWTO on my experiences as I had quite a few problems with > the existing HOWTO's. I've got a site that isn't so much a HOWTO as a selection of notes (and complete

Griffin iMic on Linux (was Re: help getting hw-accel OpenGL on Pismo)

2003-09-10 Thread Stewart Smith
h it right now :) -- Stewart Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.flamingspork.com/

Re: help getting hw-accel OpenGL on Pismo

2003-09-09 Thread Stewart Smith
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 10:40, John M. Gabriele wrote: > I'm trying to get hardware-accelerated OpenGL working. The Powerbook > comes with an ATI Rage 128 Mobility M3, 66 MHz AGP 2x (rev. 02) bus > and the card has 8 MB SDRAM. Standard 1024x768 display. I've got some info up about the iBook (with sa

Re: 2.4.22-ben2 : backlight (F1/F2) not working on console, little freeze

2003-09-08 Thread Stewart Smith
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 00:04, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Stewart Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you getting a message like "keyboard: unknown scancode e0 4c" on > > your console/in your syslog? > > Exactly. Try the attached patch, should apply to 2.4.22

Re: BIG Problem with Debian 3.0 / Bootloader / PowerMac 7500/100

2003-09-01 Thread Stewart Smith
Macs can usually be tricked into booting off other media (such as an install CD, floppy or even a MacOS CD) by holding down a key combination during boot (i.e press power and then press and hold the key combination until you see your desired effect) c (for CDROM) Apple-Option-Shift-Delete (scan fo

Re: Penguinppc.org, powermgt/cpufreq tools (was: kernel panic with latest 2.4.22-ben1 from CVS)

2003-09-01 Thread Stewart Smith
linux/ibook/ may also be useful. if you have more info to add, even tibook stuff, please mail to me - i have no problem having a *book site :) -- Stewart Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Vice President, Linux Australia

Re: Debian Installation on PowerBook G4

2003-08-19 Thread Stewart Smith
al 1 GHz PowerBook). Is everythink > supported, so that i can use Woody 3.0.0 instead of 3.0.1? Use the unstable distribution, you won't be happy with woody on powerpc. -- Stewart Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Vice President, Linux Australia

Re: dri-trunk problems

2003-08-18 Thread Stewart Smith
i got teh same setup, with same kernel (and using the trunk DRI modules). had to set this for my kernel in yaboot.conf: append="video=aty128fb:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and, the relevant sections from XF86Config-4: Section "Device" Identifier "ATI Rage Mobility M3" Driver

Re: patching kernel question

2003-08-14 Thread Stewart Smith
just to be clear ('cause I think you may be getting the patch step wrong). try something like this: $ tar xfj linux-2.4.20.tar.bz2 $ cp -rl linux-2.4.20 linux-2.4.21 $ cd linux-2.4.21 $ bzcat ../patch-2.4.21.bz | patch -p1 $ cd .. $ cp -rl linux-2.4.21 linux-2.4.21-ben2 $ cd linux-2.4.21-ben2 $ bz

[PATCH] Linux 2.4.21 with benh2 and xfs 1.1

2003-08-03 Thread Stewart Smith
Well, it works well enough for me to be writing this mail from it! :) Lashi, it should be pretty similar to what your running, but I'd like to see the diff :) http://www.flamingspork.com/linux/kernel/stew-patches/patch-2.4.21-ben2-xfs.bz2 against stock 2.4.21 -- Stewart Smith &l

Re: XFS enabled Debian 3.0r1 powerpc installer

2003-08-03 Thread Stewart Smith
ise, Dominic Giampaolo's book on the BeOS's BeFS has some interesting performance comparisons (to ext2 and NTFS). XFS also stores data on disk in your native byteorder :) (although they found that the overhead of switching was minimal anyway) -- Stewart Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Vice President, Linux Australia

Re: XFS enabled Debian 3.0r1 powerpc installer

2003-08-03 Thread Stewart Smith
included in latest benh kernels. apt-get install noflushd much less invasive, basically changes the commit to disk interval. also, mount -t tmpfs none /var can help (maybe make a skeleton /var and cp it over when you go into battery mode. -- Stewart Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Vice President, Linux Australia

Re: PC graphic adapters on Mac Hardware

2003-08-03 Thread Stewart Smith
he int10/vbe/whatever it > > >is read the bios, and then pass it to an x86 emulator to execute it and > > >intialize the card. there was some code for a real-mode 486 emulator (designed to init graphics cards) on penguinppc.org, it's still there, could try that. -- Stewart Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: MagicSysRq

2003-08-03 Thread Stewart Smith
> Hi all, > > Anyone know what the Magic Sys Rq sequence is on an ibook2 keyboard? I'm able to get into xmon with Command-Power (ibook2) but that was on screwy kernel with lots of other things wrong should normally work though. -- Stewart Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: PCI Video Cards

2001-01-02 Thread Stewart Smith
YMMV - as the Voodoo 3 2000 with a Mac ROM will not work under linux with accellerated video. You get a strange mix up of graphics that looks almost like soime kind of byte order issue. Certainly I've heard of network cards and the like working without a hitch. and my PCI USB card works wonderfull

Re: PCI Video Cards

2001-01-01 Thread Stewart Smith
I have a Voodoo 3 and it only works if i tick the "no video driver" box in BootX. The linux kernel drivers are (were at 2.4test11 at least) incompatible with a Voodoo3 flashed with the Mac ROM image (off 3dfx's site). however, YMMV nVidia is roumoured to be announcing Mac Cards soon (and these m

Re: Print Configuration and the Epson Stylus Photo 750

2000-12-20 Thread Stewart Smith
I wrote a How-to kinda thing for LinuxPPC (RedHat style) a while back that can be found at http://members.nbci.com/MacPlusG3/linux/epsonprinters.html Stuff for Debian will be slightly different (namely the GUI tools). But there is a trick with the serial ports there that will also probably be nee

Voodoo 3 cards

2000-11-14 Thread Stewart Smith
has anybody had any success? I've got the framebuffer device compiled into 2.4 and when i boot it, i get video, except display columns are the wrong way around. e.g. A AA A AA instead of A A A AAA A A (well, u get the drift) any help would be great