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 current

But not on ppc64 [Re: Aptitude Problem PPC 32-bit]

2021-10-13 Thread Rick Thomas
I do not see this problem on my PowerMac G5, however. Curiouser and curiouser... Rick On Mon, Oct 11, 2021, at 3:17 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2021, at 3:41 AM, Dan Whitehouse wrote: >> I've got a Powermac G4 running debian ppc32. >> I've noticed a pote

Re: Aptitude Problem PPC 32-bit

2021-10-11 Thread Rick Thomas
> If anyone can assist I would be grateful. > > -- > Dan Whitehouse (d...@dim-sum.org) = I've noticed the same problem here. on a G4 Mac mini: rbthomas@lil:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : 7447A, altivec supported clock : 1249.9

Aptitude Problem PPC 32-bit

2021-10-11 Thread Dan Whitehouse
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. Strace simply reveals: [pid 499] futex(0xafefc

Re: X Display Problem on G3 Series PowerBook (Wallstreet)

2021-07-18 Thread Brad Boyer
ed adding "mach64" to the config file for > 5.13.2, but that didn't fix the problem. > > Both kernels are stock kernels from kernel.org (though I did add the > BMAC patch to 5.6.13). I can send the .config files that I used if that > would be helpful. I have the s

Re: X Display Problem on G3 Series PowerBook (Wallstreet)

2021-07-18 Thread Christian Zigotzky
ed as "fb0: Open Firmware frame buffer device on /pci/ATY,RageLTPro". I tried adding "mach64" to the config file for 5.13.2, but that didn't fix the problem. Both kernels are stock kernels from kernel.org (though I did add the BMAC patch to 5.6.13). I can send the .config

X Display Problem on G3 Series PowerBook (Wallstreet)

2021-07-18 Thread Stan Johnson
s reported as "fb0: Open Firmware frame buffer device on /pci/ATY,RageLTPro". I tried adding "mach64" to the config file for 5.13.2, but that didn't fix the problem. Both kernels are stock kernels from kernel.org (though I did add the BMAC patch to 5.6.13). I can send th

Re: Bug#841044: Problem with gem network card

2021-05-13 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
gt; > On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 9:32 AM Mathieu Malaterre > > > wrote: > > >> > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo > > >> wrote: > > >>> There is certai

Re: Bug#841044: Problem with gem network card

2021-04-30 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
gt; >> On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo > >> wrote: > >>> There is certainly a way to automate this, but my question on whether > >>> that sequence would fix the problem was intended to more easily fix a > >>

Re: debconf 1.5.73 problem ppc64

2019-10-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Yes, the Perl 5.30 transition started today: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/10/msg0.html You have to wait some days now. Adrian > On Oct 5, 2019, at 10:43 PM, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > > Doing an installation of sid on pp64, get this error (from installation > logfi

debconf 1.5.73 problem ppc64

2019-10-05 Thread Jeroen Diederen
Doing an installation of sid on pp64, get this error (from installation logfile): Oct 5 20:29:57 in-target: Unpacking debconf (1.5.73) over (1.5.72) ...^M Oct 5 20:29:57 in-target: Setting up debconf (1.5.73) ... Oct 5 20:29:57 in-target: ^M Oct 5 20:29:58 in-target: Can't locate object method

Re: pbuilder problem ppc64

2019-10-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/5/19 4:31 PM, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > sudo pbuilder --create --mirror > http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports \ > --debootstrapopts > --keyring=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-ports-archive-keyring.gpg \ > --debootstrapopts --include=debian-ports-archive-keyring > > Pbuilder created the base

Re: pbuilder problem ppc64

2019-10-05 Thread Jeroen Diederen
I got it working with these options: sudo pbuilder --create --mirror http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports \ --debootstrapopts --keyring=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-ports-archive-keyring.gpg \ --debootstrapopts --include=debian-ports-archive-keyring Pbuilder created the base tarball after I iss

Re: Problem installing Debian PowerPC Jessie on PowerMac G5 7,3 PCI-X

2019-05-19 Thread Karl
Thanks! Karl > Am 19.05.2019 um 21:17 schrieb Rick Thomas : > > Scroll the list of mirrors all the way to the top. (you can use the up-arrow > key repeatedly, or the home key once) You’ll see an “enter manually” option > there. > > Rick > >> On May 19, 2019, at 10:24 AM, Noah Wolfe wrote:

Re: Problem installing Debian PowerPC Jessie on PowerMac G5 7,3 PCI-X

2019-05-19 Thread Rick Thomas
Scroll the list of mirrors all the way to the top. (you can use the up-arrow key repeatedly, or the home key once) You’ll see an “enter manually” option there. Rick > On May 19, 2019, at 10:24 AM, Noah Wolfe wrote: > > Hey Rick, > > Quick question, how do you manually enter repositories at

Re: Problem installing Debian PowerPC Jessie on PowerMac G5 7,3 PCI-X

2019-05-19 Thread Noah Wolfe
Hey Rick, Quick question, how do you manually enter repositories at installation? For me, it always defaults to selecting a preexisting, non-functional mirror off a list, and I never see any option to enter anything manually, like it does by default in the ppc64 installations. Thanks, Noah

Problem installing Debian PowerPC Jessie on PowerMac G5 7,3 PCI-X

2019-05-18 Thread Rick Thomas
I’m trying to install Debian Jessie ppc64 8.11 on my PowerMac G5 7,3 machine for comparison purposes with Adrian’s 10.0 “ports”. I downloaded the PowerPC 8.11 DVD and used it to install a default system. The only thing out of the ordinary was that I had to manually enter the packages mirror na

Re: Linux 4.17.x - boot problem on p5 520Q

2018-10-01 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 09/18/2018 07:58 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: Hi all, On 08/17/2018 10:00 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: On 08/17/2018 09:35 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 08/17/2018 09:23 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: My question now is, to which `linux-image[...]` package version should I actually file the

Re: Linux 4.17.x - boot problem on p5 520Q

2018-09-18 Thread Frank Scheiner
ed to further narrow down when the problem was introduced and did some bisecting using the vanilla kernel sources with `4.17-rc3` as known good and `4.17-rc7` as known bad. Unfortunately the results are somewhat inconclusive. I could determine, that the kernel config plays into this issue be

Re: Problem with gem network card

2018-08-27 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
tomate this, but my question on whether >>> that sequence would fix the problem was intended to more easily fix a >>> real bug in the driver. >>> >>> I can try to help fix the driver on my free time as a volunteer. >>> Christian, would you be willing to test p

Re: Problem with gem network card

2018-08-27 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Christian, On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 9:32 AM Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > Hi, > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo > wrote: > > There is certainly a way to automate this, but my question on whether > > that sequence would fix the problem

Re: Linux 4.17.x - boot problem on p5 520Q

2018-08-17 Thread Frank Scheiner
On 08/17/2018 09:35 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 08/17/2018 09:23 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: My question now is, to which `linux-image[...]` package version should I actually file the bug report? You should rather test an upstream kernel and report the bug to bugzilla.kernel.org.

Re: Linux 4.17.x - boot problem on p5 520Q

2018-08-17 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 08/17/2018 09:23 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: > My question now is, to which `linux-image[...]` package version should I > actually file the bug report? You should rather test an upstream kernel and report the bug to bugzilla.kernel.org. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debi

Linux 4.17.x - boot problem on p5 520Q

2018-08-17 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi, during testing an on-disk installation of Sid on my p5 520Q I noticed a problem that prevents the installed OS from finishing booting. I suspect the `ipr` module (which handles the built-in IBM SCSI (RAID) controller, the internal disks are attached to) or at least that it is part of this

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-06 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/06/2017 03:39 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Awesome, the window manager, crashes the system at times. Such crashes are what I'm used to with this machine even with an older previous Debian install - Debian 8, IIRC, and a different X, without awesome. But that crash might be a hardware issue:

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-06 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 19:51:47 +0100 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > [ ... ] > Awesome, the window manager, crashes the system at times. Such > crashes are what I'm used to with this machine even with an older > previous Debian install - Debian 8, IIRC, and a different X, > without awesome. But that cra

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-05 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 21:13:58 +0100 Gabriel Paubert wrote: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 08:37:24PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > [ ... ] > > Ok, thanks, I don't have the keyboard configuration file at hand, but > it was something like lv3:enter_switch in the keyboard options. Bingo!! That was

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-05 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 08:37:24PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:34:11 +0100 > Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:12:24 +0100 > > Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > [ ... ] > > > > The latter one: mine is from ~2001: > > "Command (Apple) key followed by KP_

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-05 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:37:24 +0100 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:34:11 +0100 > Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:12:24 +0100 > > Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > [ ... ] > > > > The latter one: mine is from ~2001: > > "Command (Apple) key followed by KP_Enter"

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-05 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:34:11 +0100 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:12:24 +0100 > Gabriel Paubert wrote: > [ ... ] > > The latter one: mine is from ~2001: > "Command (Apple) key followed by KP_Enter" > On this image it's the left one: > https://images.techhive.com/images/articl

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-05 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 20:12:24 +0100 Gabriel Paubert wrote: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 07:51:47PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 02:09:20 +0100 > > Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > [ ... ] > > Console: > > I didn't find any bar key ("|") there, which is a real PITA, and > > the

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-05 Thread Gabriel Paubert
e an issue with, or different system behavior when > closing the lid for an intended sleep mode - the system *seems* to > crash, and does not wake up after opening the lid - the next system > boot needs the power button to be hold down for five or 10 seconds to > boot, or even pressi

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-05 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
times - normally this needs one single press for a second or so. Weird ... Powering down the system with the usual "shutdown -h now" doesn't result in this problem to power up the machine again. And sometimes when closing the lid, all that happens is that the light goes off, system do

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/04/2017 07:45 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: >> Looks good. But as I said, I don't know for how long Yaboot will >> be around as it's currently being replaced. > > No problem for me as long as GRUB will have some usable option to > boot a ppc installer from

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-04 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
tps://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2012/08/msg00042.html > > Looks good. But as I said, I don't know for how long Yaboot will > be around as it's currently being replaced. No problem for me as long as GRUB will have some usable option to boot a ppc installer from inside O

Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/

2017-12-04 Thread Laura Arjona Reina
Hello El 03/11/17 a las 09:16, Laura Arjona Reina escribió: > Hello > > El 01/11/17 a las 10:57, Jonathan Dowland escribió: >> I think the powerpc ports page needs some reworking for clarity. It >> currently states >> >>    "It first became an official release architecture with Debian >>    GNU/L

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-04 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/04/2017 01:26 AM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > I forgot this - no idea whether it's important: > Yaboot (?) says after booting someth. like this: > "Warning: Bootstrap partition type is wrong: "Apple_HFS" > type should be "Apple_Bootstrap"" We're working on replacing Yaboot for

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-03 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 02:09:20 +0100 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > [ ... ] > > Aborting the install crashed - but that might be a hardware, not Aborting the install crashed - but that might be a hardware should say: Aborting the install crashed - but that might be a hardware issue Sorry Wolfgang --

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-03 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 00:50:01 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 12/04/2017 12:14 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > I have to rebuild debian-installer to match the 4.14 kernel. The > > current version of debian-installer on the installation images is > > built against 4.13 but unsta

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-03 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi Adrian, hi All On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 00:14:50 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Wolfgang! > > On 12/03/2017 11:59 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > "No kernel modules were found. This probably is due to a mismatch > > between the kernel used by this version of the installer and the > >

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/04/2017 12:14 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I have to rebuild debian-installer to match the 4.14 kernel. The current > version of debian-installer on the installation images is built against > 4.13 but unstable has kernel 4.14. I will fix this tomorrow. I have done this now although

Re: Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Wolfgang! On 12/03/2017 11:59 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > "No kernel modules were found. This probably is due to a mismatch > between the kernel used by this version of the installer and the kernel > version available in the archive. Thanks for the heads-up, I knew I would have forgotten so

Installer from Ports, ppc 32 bit : "No kernel modules found"[was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/]

2017-12-03 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
-NETINST-1.iso is copied to a USB thumb drive. The installer booted fine, but now I'm getting a message that modules are missing: "No kernel modules were found. This probably is due to a mismatch between the kernel used by this version of the installer and the kernel version available in th

Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/

2017-12-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Wolfgang! On 12/02/2017 12:17 AM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: >> We are maintaining installer images for ports here: >> >> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports > > I don't see any hint on powerpc in that dir. > The last installer files I found were 8.9.0: > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/a

Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/

2017-12-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
The updated powerpc images are currently located here: > http://jenkins.kfreebsd.eu/jenkins/view/cd/ I haven’t had the time yet to copy them over to cdimage. Will do that over the weekend after generating new images with the 4.14 kernel Ben just uploaded to unstable. Adrian > On Dec 2, 2017,

Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/

2017-12-01 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Fri, 3 Nov 2017 09:33:39 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Laura! > > Can you please mention that both powerpc and ppc64 (and even > powerpcspe) are available through Debian Ports? Powerpc? Sure? > > We are maintaining installer images for ports here: > > http://cdimage.debian.o

installation images for ports (was: Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/)

2017-11-03 Thread Laura Arjona Reina
Hello El 03/11/17 a las 09:33, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz escribió: > Hi Laura! > > Can you please mention that both powerpc and ppc64 (and even powerpcspe) are > available through Debian Ports? > > We are maintaining installer images for ports here: > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports

Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/

2017-11-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Laura! Can you please mention that both powerpc and ppc64 (and even powerpcspe) are available through Debian Ports? We are maintaining installer images for ports here: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports The same applies to alpha, hppa, m68k, sh4, sparc64 and x32. Note: We don’t have i

Re: problem with page /ports/powerpc/

2017-11-03 Thread Laura Arjona Reina
Hello El 01/11/17 a las 10:57, Jonathan Dowland escribió: > I think the powerpc ports page needs some reworking for clarity. It > currently states > >    "It first became an official release architecture with Debian >    GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato) and has retained that status ever since." > > Howeve

Re: yaboot problem? OS won't load after install on a Power Mac G5

2017-02-17 Thread luigi burdo
; herminio.hernande...@gmail.com; debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Oggetto: Re: yaboot problem? OS won't load after install on a Power Mac G5 Hi Len, Thanks for the suggestion but alas that didn't work either, same thing happens. Regards On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 07:06:30PM +0200, ilko Iliev wrote: >

Re: yaboot problem? OS won't load after install on a Power Mac G5

2017-02-16 Thread ilko Iliev
Hi Len, Thanks for the suggestion but alas that didn't work either, same thing happens. Regards On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 07:06:30PM +0200, ilko Iliev wrote: > Hi Christoph, > > Indeed, these files seem to exist http://i.imgur.com/uAPd5sL.jpg > > As to the question regarding the FS type f

Re: yaboot problem? OS won't load after install on a Power Mac G5

2017-02-16 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 09:57:06PM +0200, ilko Iliev wrote: > Hi Len, > > Thanks for the suggestion but alas that didn't work either, same thing > happens. So you tried this? #1 32.2 kB Apple #2 1.0 MB B K boot untitled #3 1.0 GB f ext2 untitled /boot #4 316 GB f ext4 untitled /

Re: yaboot problem? OS won't load after install on a Power Mac G5

2017-02-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 07:06:30PM +0200, ilko Iliev wrote: > Hi Christoph, > > Indeed, these files seem to exist http://i.imgur.com/uAPd5sL.jpg > > As to the question regarding the FS type for /boot I'm not really sure, it's > whatever comes with this setup http://i.imgur.com/fPYDHbI.jpg > but

Re: yaboot problem? OS won't load after install on a Power Mac G5

2017-02-08 Thread ilko Iliev
him when he was installing Ubuntu. P.S. Sorry if not the proper way to reply to a mail list, never used them before :/ > Оригинално писмо >От: Christoph Biedl debian.a...@manchmal.in-ulm.de >Относно: Re: yaboot problem? OS won't load after install

Re: yaboot problem? OS won't load after install on a Power Mac G5

2017-02-07 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 09:30:37PM +0200, ilko Iliev wrote: > I tried several times installing Debian on a Power Mac G5 machine, each time > I go through the install process without any issues, but once I reboot after > the install the system hangs in a perpetual " Loading second stage > bootstr

Re: yaboot problem? OS won't load after install on a Power Mac G5

2017-02-06 Thread herminio . hernandezjr
Do you have /boot as a separate ext2 partition? In version 1.17 of yaboot the kernel will not load unless this is set up. Herminio On Mon, 2017-02-06 at 21:06 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 02/06/2017 08:30 PM, ilko Iliev wrote: > > install the system hangs in a perpetual "Loading sec

Re: yaboot problem? OS won't load after install on a Power Mac G5

2017-02-06 Thread Christoph Biedl
ilko Iliev wrote... > image = /boot/ vmlinux (...) > initrd = /boot/ initrd . img Do these files actually exist? When setting up two installations during the weekend, they were missing. This ought to be a bug in yaboot but I didn't get around to debug this. So either: Remove the "/boot"

Re: yaboot problem? OS won't load after install on a Power Mac G5

2017-02-06 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 02/06/2017 08:30 PM, ilko Iliev wrote: > install the system hangs in a perpetual "Loading second stage bootstrap..." It might actually not hanging but there is just no video. I suggest hooking up a serial console and trying to boot the kernel with console=ttyS0,115200,8n1. Adrian -- .''`.

yaboot problem? OS won't load after install on a Power Mac G5

2017-02-06 Thread ilko Iliev
hello, I tried several times installing Debian on a Power Mac G5 machine, each time I go through the install process without any issues, but once I reboot after the install the system hangs in a perpetual " Loading second stage bootstrap..." I suspect it might be a yaboot issue, I mounted the HD

Re: system frozen and mouse problem

2016-11-01 Thread Klaus Becker
On lundi 31 octobre 2016 09:14:30 CET Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 8:14 PM, Klaus Becker wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have new passwords and new problems: > > > > - I updated Debian 8 without any problem, but: > > > > - the mouse a

Re: system frozen and mouse problem

2016-10-31 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 8:14 PM, Klaus Becker wrote: > Hi, > > I have new passwords and new problems: > > - I updated Debian 8 without any problem, but: > > - the mouse and the mousepad of the iBook G4 will not work. Sometimes after > system start they work some secon

system frozen and mouse problem

2016-10-30 Thread Klaus Becker
Hi, I have new passwords and new problems: - I updated Debian 8 without any problem, but: - the mouse and the mousepad of the iBook G4 will not work. Sometimes after system start they work some seconds, than the computer is completely frozen, I can only restart it. - how to write a pipe

Re: Problem with gem network card

2016-10-17 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi, On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: > There is certainly a way to automate this, but my question on whether > that sequence would fix the problem was intended to more easily fix a > real bug in the driver. > > I can try to help fix the driver

Re: Problem with gem network card

2016-10-15 Thread Christian Groessler
On 10/14/16 16:45, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: There is certainly a way to automate this, but my question on whether that sequence would fix the problem was intended to more easily fix a real bug in the driver. I can try to help fix the driver on my free time as a volunteer. Christian

Re: Problem with gem network card

2016-10-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 11:45:14AM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: > There is certainly a way to automate this, but my question on whether > that sequence would fix the problem was intended to more easily fix a > real bug in the driver. I guess a simple hack would be a cron

Re: Problem with gem network card

2016-10-14 Thread Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
//serverfault.com/questions/278838/restarting-network-through-ssh > > You can't ssh if you have no networking. Screen only helps if you have > networking working but you want to restart networking remotely. > > -- > Len Sorensen > There is certainly a way to automate thi

Re: Problem with gem network card

2016-10-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 08:25:43AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 12:14 AM, Christian Groessler > > After > > > > $ ip link set eth0 down > > $ ip link set eth0 up > > > > it's working again. > > > > But I have to be physically at the machine for this, so it's not a real

Re: Problem with gem network card

2016-10-13 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 12:14 AM, Christian Groessler wrote: > On 10/11/16 20:56, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 07:51:30PM +0200, Christian Groessler wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> on my Mac G5 I see loss of network connectivity when doing big downloads >>> or >>> u

Re: Problem with gem network card

2016-10-13 Thread Christian Groessler
On 10/11/16 20:56, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 07:51:30PM +0200, Christian Groessler wrote: Hi, on my Mac G5 I see loss of network connectivity when doing big downloads or uploads. The machine cannot be pinged anymore then and also cannot ping out. When it's

Re: Problem with gem network card

2016-10-11 Thread Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 07:51:30PM +0200, Christian Groessler wrote: > Hi, > > on my Mac G5 I see loss of network connectivity when doing big downloads or > uploads. > > The machine cannot be pinged anymore then and also cannot ping out. > > When it's happening I see the following messages: > >

Problem with gem network card

2016-10-11 Thread Christian Groessler
Hi, on my Mac G5 I see loss of network connectivity when doing big downloads or uploads. The machine cannot be pinged anymore then and also cannot ping out. When it's happening I see the following messages: Oct 11 10:45:13 g5 kernel: [ 430.477967] gem 0001:04:0f.0 eth0: RX MAC fifo overflo

Re: c++0x, SDL, std::vector problem on ppc64el

2014-11-23 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Johannes Schauer (2014-11-22 21:56:14) > I'm trying to solve the build failure of my package vcmi on ppc64el: Thanks to the help of Erik in #debianppc I was able to find out that this problem only happens with c++ and not with clang++. Thus I now filed bug #770670 against

c++0x, SDL, std::vector problem on ppc64el

2014-11-22 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, I'm trying to solve the build failure of my package vcmi on ppc64el: https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=vcmi&arch=ppc64el&ver=0.97%2Bdfsg-2&stamp=1416356066 The relevant first error message is: [ 68%] Building CXX object AI/StupidAI/CMakeFiles/StupidAI.dir/main.cpp.o cd /«BUILDD

Re: Debian PPC test video problem with G5 Quad

2014-07-30 Thread keith
t. Modify /etc/yaboot.conf and add the parameter, then run ybin (please skim the man page if you've never run this before). Dave I added : append="Linux video=radeonfb:1920x1080-32@60" to /etc/yaboot.conf , as you suggested, then ran "ybin -v" and that solved the proble

Re: Debian PPC test video problem with G5 Quad

2014-07-30 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 05:48:49PM +0200, Christian Zigotzky wrote: > On 30.07.14, 13:05 Rick Thomas wrote: > >Hi Keith, > > > >It’s definitely worth filing a bug. (See reportbug(1) for details on the > >procedure.) I guess, for lack of anything more precise, you should file it > >against packa

Re: Debian PPC test video problem with G5 Quad

2014-07-30 Thread Christian Zigotzky
On 30.07.14, 13:05 Rick Thomas wrote: Hi Keith, It’s definitely worth filing a bug. (See reportbug(1) for details on the procedure.) I guess, for lack of anything more precise, you should file it against package “installation-reports”. It will (hopefully) be re-directed to a more appropria

Re: Debian PPC test video problem with G5 Quad

2014-07-30 Thread Rick Thomas
gt;>> Black Screen , the terminal video is corrupted and not perfect. >>>> On Wheezy 7.5 everything was working (except the audio) My >>>> Configuration PowerMac G5 Quad 8Gb , Nvidia 7800gtx 512mb Regards >>>> Luigi >>>> >>> I have a similar

Re: Debian PPC test video problem with G5 Quad

2014-07-30 Thread keith
ot perfect. On Wheezy 7.5 everything was working (except the audio) My Configuration PowerMac G5 Quad 8Gb , Nvidia 7800gtx 512mb Regards Luigi I have a similar problem on a Powermac G4 MDD, 1.0 GHz single processor, 2GB ram, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro video card. The installation went normally, but up

Re: Debian PPC test video problem with G5 Quad

2014-07-29 Thread David Gosselin
rfect. >> On Wheezy 7.5 everything was working (except the audio) My >> Configuration PowerMac G5 Quad 8Gb , Nvidia 7800gtx 512mb Regards >> Luigi >> > I have a similar problem on a Powermac G4 MDD, 1.0 GHz single > processor, 2GB ram, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro video card. The > in

Re: Debian PPC test video problem with G5 Quad

2014-07-29 Thread keith
, Nvidia 7800gtx 512mb Regards Luigi I have a similar problem on a Powermac G4 MDD, 1.0 GHz single processor, 2GB ram, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro video card. The installation went normally, but upon initial reboot, I got a black screen with only the pointer. I forced the computer to shut down by

Debian PPC test video problem with G5 Quad

2014-07-26 Thread Luigi Burdo
Hi guys installed the test and installation progress everything goes fluid At first system boot no video at all on the Xorg Only Black Screen , the terminal video is corrupted and not perfect. On Wheezy 7.5 everything was working (except the audio) My Configuration PowerMac G5 Quad 8Gb , Nvi

Re: Power Mac G5 Debian Wheezy / Problem with GeForce FX 5200 Ultra

2014-03-03 Thread Risto Suominen
2014-03-03 18:42 UTC+02.00, Aaron Valdes : > > Can you post your xorg.conf? > Here it is: -- Section "Device" Identifier "Configured Video Device" BusID "PCI:240:16:0" Driver "nouveau" Option "Monitor-TV-1" "Configured Monitor" Option "NoAccel" "true

Re: Power Mac G5 Debian Wheezy / Problem with GeForce FX 5200 Ultra

2014-03-03 Thread Aaron Valdes
Risto, Thanks. This works. :) Can you post your xorg.conf? Aaron On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 18:21 +0200, Risto Suominen wrote: > You are right, Aaron. I also have that 'video=TV-1:d' on the kernel > command line. > > It comes from /etc/yaboot.conf (so you don't need to write it on every boot): >

Re: Power Mac G5 Debian Wheezy / Problem with GeForce FX 5200 Ultra

2014-03-03 Thread Risto Suominen
You are right, Aaron. I also have that 'video=TV-1:d' on the kernel command line. It comes from /etc/yaboot.conf (so you don't need to write it on every boot): append=" video=TV-1:d" F.ex.: image=/boot/vmlinux label=Linux read-only initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=

Re: Power Mac G5 Debian Wheezy / Problem with GeForce FX 5200 Ultra

2014-03-03 Thread Aaron Valdes
Risto, Thanks for your help. The port I am using is DVI (DVI-I-2) When booting I ran with this line and the display came up. boot: Linux video=TV-1:d My xorg.conf is: Section "Device" Identifier"FX5200" BusID"PCI:240:16:0" Driver "nouveau" Option "Mon

Re: Power Mac G5 Debian Wheezy / Problem with GeForce FX 5200 Ultra

2014-03-03 Thread Aaron Valdes
I re-installed Debian Wheezy on my Pro Mac G5 with GeForce FX 5200 Ultra. I had to boot yaboot with... boot: Linux video=DVI-I-1:d video=DVI-I-2:1280x1024:@75 video=TV-1:d This is working right now. On Sat, 2014-03-01 at 19:23 -0500, Aaron Valdes wrote: > Hello All, > > I have installed Deb

Re: Re: Power Mac G5 Debian Wheezy / Problem with GeForce FX 5200 Ultra

2014-03-03 Thread Aaron Valdes
Risto, I must be blind. I am going try this as soon as the machine is up and running. Thanks Aaron = Re: Power Mac G5 Debian Wheezy / Problem with GeForce FX 5200 Ultra To: Aaron Valdes Cc: debian-powerpc

Re: Power Mac G5 Debian Wheezy / Problem with GeForce FX 5200 Ultra

2014-03-03 Thread Risto Suominen
2014-03-03 2:16 UTC+02.00, Aaron Valdes : > > boot: Linux video=DVI-I-1:d video=DVI-I-2:1280x1024:@75 video=TV-1:d > This is basically the same as my solution: unused outputs ADC and TV are disabled, in addition the screen resolution is specified for DVI. Risto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: Power Mac G5 Debian Wheezy / Problem with GeForce FX 5200 Ultra

2014-03-02 Thread Aaron Valdes
I found some good information in the following bug report. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668828#30 On Sat, 2014-03-01 at 19:23 -0500, Aaron Valdes wrote: > Hello All, > > I have installed Debian Wheezy on my Power Mac G5 and I am getting a > black screen. > > The output

Re: Power Mac G5 Debian Wheezy / Problem with GeForce FX 5200 Ultra

2014-03-02 Thread Aaron Valdes
Long story short. I installed LinuxMintPPC and had the same problem. Screen would go dark. I found a post in the LinuxMint forums. >From yaboot I tried with the following line. boot: Linux video=DVI-I-1:d video=DVI-I-2:1280x1024:@75 video=TV-1:d It worked I don't know if this sa

Re: Power Mac G5 Debian Wheezy / Problem with GeForce FX 5200 Ultra

2014-03-02 Thread David Gosselin
List Debian Subject: Re: Power Mac G5 Debian Wheezy / Problem with GeForce FX 5200 Ultra That's very interesting. Can you guide me to a good document on how to try this? On Sun, 2014-03-02 at 14:36 -0500, David Gosselin wrote: A tad off-topic but, if you can’t get this working and the apps

Re: Power Mac G5 Debian Wheezy / Problem with GeForce FX 5200 Ultra

2014-03-02 Thread Aaron Valdes
That's very interesting. Can you guide me to a good document on how to try this? On Sun, 2014-03-02 at 14:36 -0500, David Gosselin wrote: > A tad off-topic but, if you can’t get this working and the apps you expect to > run don’t require the muscle of your video card, then you can install your

Re: Power Mac G5 Debian Wheezy / Problem with GeForce FX 5200 Ultra

2014-03-02 Thread David Gosselin
A tad off-topic but, if you can’t get this working and the apps you expect to run don’t require the muscle of your video card, then you can install your X clients on the machine and forward their displays to a X server on another machine on your network. This is what I do for my PowerMac G5 7,3

Re: Power Mac G5 Debian Wheezy / Problem with GeForce FX 5200 Ultra

2014-03-02 Thread Risto Suominen
2014-03-02 15:12 UTC+02.00, Aaron Valdes : > > This is Debian Wheezy on the Power Mac G5 with GeForce FX 5200 Ultra. > I have exactly the same machine. Kernel is 3.1.0-1-powerpc64. Which output connector are you using, DVI (DVI-I-2) or ADC (DVI-I-1)? If you can ssh into the machine, take a look a

Re: Power Mac G5 Debian Wheezy / Problem with GeForce FX 5200 Ultra

2014-03-02 Thread Aaron Valdes
I took nouveau out of the black list. I backed up my xorg.conf. I made a new xorg.conf with these settings. I rebooted and still have the black screen. It even kills the terminal from coming up. This is Debian Wheezy on the Power Mac G5 with GeForce FX 5200 Ultra. On Sun, 2014-03-02 at 08:

Re: Power Mac G5 Debian Wheezy / Problem with GeForce FX 5200 Ultra

2014-03-01 Thread Risto Suominen
X Probabl selects wrong output. I'm using DVI, and the following /etc/X11/xorg.conf makes it work: -- Section "Device" Identifier "Configured Video Device" BusID "PCI:240:16:0" Driver "nouveau" Option "Monitor-TV-1" "Configured Monitor" Option "NoAccel"

Re: Power Mac G5 Debian Wheezy / Problem with GeForce FX 5200 Ultra

2014-03-01 Thread Aaron Valdes
I blacklisted the nouveau driver. I removed X and now I got the terminal booting. On Sat, 2014-03-01 at 19:23 -0500, Aaron Valdes wrote: > Hello All, > > I have installed Debian Wheezy on my Power Mac G5 and I am getting a > black screen. > > The output from the lspci: > > root@ValdesPowerM

Power Mac G5 Debian Wheezy / Problem with GeForce FX 5200 Ultra

2014-03-01 Thread Aaron Valdes
Hello All, I have installed Debian Wheezy on my Power Mac G5 and I am getting a black screen. The output from the lspci: root@ValdesPowerMac:/home/aaron/Downloads1# lspci | grep NVIDIA :f0:10.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForceFX 5200 Ultra] (rev a1) The binarie

Re: Bug#728936 tried amd64 netinst sid daily-build. Problem not found on amd

2013-12-08 Thread Rick Thomas
I just tried the amd64 daily-builds netinst CD. I did not have this problem. The USB keyboard was recognized and functioned as expected. So what's it about PowerPC ??? Rick /cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/ debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso 2013-12-08 04:49

Re: Sound problem in Sid

2013-06-20 Thread Rubén Gómez Antolí
Hello all: Thanks for your answer and sorry for delay, yesterday I'm out of home all afternoon and evening. El 19/06/13 15:15, Elimar Riesebieter escribió: * Rubén Gómez Antolí [2013-06-19 14:27 +0200]: [...] I forgot say, alsamixer is showing only one channel (master) and say «card: Puls

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