Re: How to report bugs against PPC builds?

2012-12-20 Thread brian m. carlson
lace to report bugs is the Debian BTS, regardless of architecture. If you use reportbug (you should), then it will include the architecture in the bug report. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only O

Re: ATLAS on PowerPC

2012-07-04 Thread brian m. carlson
ure that it does not include instructions that only POWER processors have, or it will not work on PowerPC processors. > BTW, if you could answer the same question concerning the ppc64 and > powerpcspe ports, that would be great. I don't know enough here to have an opinion, sorry. -- br

Re: fresh install of squeeze cannot compile alsa

2011-05-20 Thread brian m. carlson
s probably mpg321 which > > plays gibberish still. > > Indeed, mpg321 doesn't work anymore here either. Are you going to report > the bug? Is it just mpg321 or is it also other libao-using packages? If the latter, see #588901. -- brian m. carlson / brian wi

Re: Multicore kernel

2011-04-18 Thread brian m. carlson
wrong one. You can install the "powerpc-smp" variant to use more than one CPU; there's really no reason not to. As always, remember not to uninstall the old kernel package while that kernel is running. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | h

Re: Error creating a PIC EXECUTABLE in a POWER-PC Debian

2011-02-23 Thread brian m. carlson
full command line, including the locations of the crt*.o files. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: R_PPC_REL24 relocation __libc_start_main/__nptl_deallocate_tsd out of range

2011-02-16 Thread brian m. carlson
ks on hppa with this kind of problem is to use -ffunction-sections. You might try it and see if it works for you. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F

Re: Busybox for powerpc doesnt compile

2011-01-29 Thread brian m. carlson
double) > See `config.log' for more details. You should look at config.log and see why it fails. Search for the text "size of long double" and you'll probably find the right place. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.cru

Re: Debian Lenny on IBM JS21

2011-01-26 Thread brian m. carlson
shipped before June 2003? (There's a compatibility issue with some CD-ROM drives.) I see a lot of these types of problems (on all systems) with bad CDs or bad CD drives. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My

Re: IA32 libs dependency, how do I get around it?

2010-12-28 Thread brian m. carlson
older binary-only packages that are linked against it. That doesn't mean it should be used. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA

Re: Unofficial Squeeze NetInst CDs: call for testers

2010-12-19 Thread brian m. carlson
ckage installed. Bootloaders are a great way to determine this. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Call for testers: new yaboot package release - power5 installation report

2010-10-08 Thread brian m. carlson
gt; shipped with these units? I guess I should search the list archive, > eh? ;) On some PowerMacs, you need to use video=ofonly on the kernel command line to avoid this kind of problem. I own an iBook G3 that required that. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1

Re: Debian powerpc binary compatibility?

2010-09-17 Thread brian m. carlson
n you build a package with dpkg-buildpackage, it sets certain environment variables to a default value (for example, CFLAGS=-g -O2). You may be able to modify that slightly for your needs. Note that that doesn't guarantee that the package in question won't override it. -- brian m. carls

Re: debian-testing-powerpc-xfce+lxde, 7/26/10

2010-08-01 Thread brian m. carlson
On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 12:41:44PM -0600, Thomas Carlson wrote: > AlsaMixer doesn't give me any control of Headphones or Speakers. Just a box > with MM in it. "MM" means muted, "OO" means on. Hit m to disable the muting. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals

Re: How can I emulate Debian for PowerPC on Intel processor?

2010-07-30 Thread brian m. carlson
long time ago, I tried to install Mac OS X 10.1 but was unsuccessful. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Installing Debian Lenny on MacMini G4

2010-07-28 Thread brian m. carlson
ble with the Mac Mini. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ISO For Recent Debian Squeeze

2010-07-13 Thread brian m. carlson
ist-upgrade. I run sid on all my machines, and that's the way I've installed all of them. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 022

Re: video problem on powerbook g4 in squeeze

2010-07-12 Thread brian m. carlson
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:46:24AM -0700, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > video=radeonfb:off > > only problem is I don't actually know where to put that... You'll probably want to put that in the append option for yaboot.conf, IIRC. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Housto

Re: fan management on G5

2010-06-30 Thread brian m. carlson
hen you don't get TSO, but the card will work normally. > W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/tigon/tg3.bin for module tg3 This is important if you have an early model card (a 5701 rev A0), because it contains a patch for a significant bug. Otherwise, it's irrele

Re: R_PPC_REL24 relocation ... out of range

2010-06-17 Thread brian m. carlson
need to contact whomever you got it from and report it there. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 signature.asc Description: Digital signature