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| 02:36.13 | chmeee | hey, having trouble installing squeeze on ppc64 |
| 02:36.59 | chmeee | It's failing with setting up yaboot. I noticed a bug report was filed against it, but wondering if there's any workaround I can use |
| 02:40.13 | peterrooney | chmeee: there was a discussion about this issue on mailing list recently, IIRC a workaround was available - munging bootloaders halfway through an install. I'll go and look back through it and see if I can spot the take-home. |
| 02:41.12 | chmeee | thanks |
| 02:48.24 | peterrooney | example: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2010/09/threads.html |
| 02:48.42 | peterrooney | more particularly, http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2010/09/msg00134.html |
| 02:49.25 | chmeee | got it, thanks. Grabbing the new yaboot now |
| 02:51.12 | peterrooney | choice quote from Gaudenz: "...testing a new bootloader package inside d-i is a bit tricky." |
| 02:51.43 | chmeee | well, I'm trying in chroot, but he is right |
| 02:52.13 | chmeee | and still no love from the new yaboot :( |
| 02:57.52 | chmeee | peterrooney: Is there something like ofwdump for Linux? Something that just dumps the open firmware device tree? |
| 03:06.52 | chmeee | nevermind, I got what I needed |
| 03:18.56 | chmeee | well, it installed. Guess tomorrow I'll try to get it actually working.... nouveau is killing it |
| 03:19.49 | chmeee | Thanks for your help. I might be back in tomorrow for more help |
| 04:02.14 | simonrvn | device-tree in linux is in /proc/device-tree FYI |
| 04:02.24 | simonrvn | in case chmeee comes back |
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| 06:41.45 | Nalle_ | Morning |
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| 08:51.52 | wangdang | fwiw, i was asking last night why I wasn't getting any dhcpoffers at a public hotspot on my ibook. turns out it was a conflict between networkmanager and /etc/network/interfaces. Commented out the entry for wifi in the interfaces files all I can connect |
| 10:00.07 | wangdang | anyone here using a non US keyboard layout? |
| 10:00.38 | Bor_Ed | yup |
| 10:01.52 | wangdang | I want to use a different one, but in /usr/share/keymaps, I don't see ppc option. Can I use an i386 keymap? my keymap wasn't offered at install time |
| 10:02.31 | Bor_Ed | I used i386 keymaps in desktops, worked ok |
| 10:03.33 | wangdang | good, thanks |
| 10:03.52 | Bor_Ed | no prob |
| 10:04.45 | wangdang | has to sign of the wifi hotspot and go home |
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| 22:14.39 | chmeee | anyone have Debian on a late 2005 G5? |
| 22:20.12 | pahartik | chmeee: No, but I would very much like to |
| 22:22.03 | chmeee | pahartik: well, I'm having a problem with starting it. It boots, but even in single user mode it gets to the end of the boot sequence and then it just dies |
| 22:22.21 | chmeee | The monitor shuts off, and after a couple minutes the fans go full blast |
| 22:22.53 | pahartik | chmeee: "No" as in "I only have 32-bit PowerPC systems" |
| 22:23.38 | chmeee | pahartik: I understand that. I'm asking if you've seen that problem on any other systems |
| 22:25.33 | chmeee | I'm thinking it's X's fault |
| 22:25.36 | pahartik | chmeee: Oh... Which kernel versions have you tried? |
| 22:25.58 | chmeee | 2.6.32-5 |
| 22:26.02 | chmeee | powerpc64 |
| 22:27.40 | pahartik | chmeee: If X11 server is problem, disable "gdm" or such... |
| 22:29.46 | chmeee | Trying that now. Curious to know why x11 is configured even in single user mode |
| 22:32.24 | pahartik | chmeee: You get access to "root shell" in "single user mode"? |
| 22:32.48 | chmeee | I have to boot with init=/bin/sh |
| 22:33.43 | chmeee | And it looks to me that it crashes right after loading the nouveau driver |
| 22:36.40 | chmeee | yeah, just confirmed that the problem is nouveau (loaded it from init=/bin/sh |
| 22:52.44 | pahartik | chmeee: Source of problem acknowledged |
| 22:52.57 | chmeee | pahartik: Maybe you can help me with this: Colors in X are messed up |
| 23:07.09 | chmeee | It looks like it's either an endian issue, or the color map is rotated (ARGB instead of RGBA, or something) |
| 23:22.21 | chmeee | *sigh* would help if I read Xorg.0.log closer... it's getting a color depth of 8, because it can't determine the device information |
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