August 2007 - Arch-ports - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-ports] [ppc]no sound after kernel upgrade
by Markus Wolf 29 Aug '07

29 Aug '07

Hi folks, About a couple of weeks ago, after a kernel upgrade (everything smooth as usual) the sound card of my 12" iBook stopped working. This sort of things happens sometimes, eheh everybody makes mistakes right? So I thought the issue would be resolved gracefully (i.e. with no complaints at all) within a few days with a new upgrade. But after two more upgrades, as of kernel 2.6.22 I can still hear no sound at all... I think the soundcard works, because I can hear the apple chord when I turn the machine on. alsaconf seems to recognize it properly but alsamixer tells me "No mixer elems found" and my /etc/asound.state reads like this: state.SoundByLayout { control { } } somewhat weird, isn't it? Furthermore lspci shows no trace of an audio card and dmesg informs me that module snd-powermac is no longer the right one, and that I should use snd-aoa, of which alsaconf seems to know nothing about... Nobody in the list has complained about this so far, either: (a) I do upgrade way too often, (b) something is wrong with my machine and I don't know what it is (c) both :( Any clues? Markus Wolf

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[arch-ports] New Contact Info
by Zac Brown 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

Hi everyone: I've got a new Jabber account, so add this to your buddy lists, though you can leave the other on as well, I just find google talk's jabber server to be too flakey. The account is zbrown(a)jaim.at. Zac

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[arch-ports] PPC office/aspell-*
by Harley 24 Aug '07

24 Aug '07

It appears as though no dictionaries for aspell have been packaged for the PPC port. They should be very trivial (at least the en was by adding arch=(ppc)) to get working. Once I figure out how much time I'm going to have this semester. I may start putting this MacMini to good use. For now, I'll have to settle with just using ArchLinux on the PowerPC instead of helping the project.

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[arch-ports] airport problem with kernel 2.6.22
by sacarde 22 Aug '07

22 Aug '07

hi, I update my system from kernel 2.6.21 to 2.6.22 and other package... after rebooting, my net wireless is down.... I dont find eth1 (wireless device) (module are loaded: airport and bcm43xx) 0001:10:12.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) can you help me ? p.s. I have update udev too sacarde(a)tiscali.it

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[arch-ports] [ppc] Bugtracker
by Alexander Baldeck 22 Aug '07

22 Aug '07

Hey all, I bet many have just not noticed but we put our own bugtracker up online. It is available below: http://bugs.archlinuxppc.org Happy filing! :) -G

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[arch-ports] New Packages & Introduction
by Zac Brown 20 Aug '07

20 Aug '07

Hey PPC'ers: I'm new to the dev team in case you haven't noticed yet. I am donating my Mac Mini (1.25 GHz w/ 256 MB of ram) as the build machine and will probably upgrade that ram when I get some extra cash lying around. I'm currently working on building some devel packages (ghc-6.6.1, erlang, and others) since I've noticed we're lacking there though other places as well. Hope to meet you all at one time or another. Cheers, Zac Brown PS: Jabber ID is rufiusATgmailDOTcom

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[arch-ports] Fixed bug in makeroot
by Zac Brown 16 Aug '07

16 Aug '07

I discovered a bug in /arch/conf/ppc/makepkg.conf that had CXXFLAGS using "-march=powerpc" instead of "-mcpu=powerpc". The latter is correct and can cause makepkg to fail if a Makefile doesn't like "-march=powerpc". Zac

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[arch-ports] Question about stepping on peoples' toes?
by Zac Brown 15 Aug '07

15 Aug '07

Hey PPC team: Well all 3 active ones of us anyway. I wanted to clarify something before I got much further but I've been basically picking and choosing things to update with i686 as I go, not really giving any heed to specific packages. Is there a problem with that. I feel like since we're such a small team there wouldn't be a problem (we all have more than enough work to do). Let me know if it is one though. Zac

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[arch-ports] Taking a short break
by Greg Helton 11 Aug '07

11 Aug '07

Hello all, I know I haven't been very active lately, as I've been very busy with other things. A couple nights ago, I broke up with my girlfriend and had to drive across the country back to my parents place. I will probably not be active at all for 2ish more weeks, while I try to recover and get my life back on track. Hopefully by then, I can resume work on archppc and my x86 projects. --Greg

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[arch-ports] [ppc] Buildd looking for a new home
by Alexander Baldeck 10 Aug '07

10 Aug '07

Hey ppclers, for a bunch of reasons we are in need of a new build machine as we used to have with hammurabi, may its soul rest in peace. Now that it is going to be used for other things by the owner Benoitc, we are looking into finding a new one. Thanks Benoit, for providing us with the service for so long! Since most of us have iBooks and/or rather crappy internet uplinks or no direct access to PPC machines at all from home - like me at the moment - we are looking for a machine with specs similar to those: G4 500mhz + 512MB RAM + (1G prefferred) 40GB HDD + DSL/Cable connection of which we may use 128kbit/s upstream and it would be nice to have around 1mbit/s down. The system has to be a install of base/ with openssh, apache & rsync. The rest is optional and will be set up by us. Maintainance is also done by the devs unless we really need hands on support. Users on the machine will only be devs of archlinuxppc. Everytime there is going to be a new account, we will contact you. In return we cannot to much but mention you or your company on our website. This is a no-budget project after all. :) Thanks for paying attention to all safety instructions. We hope you enjoyed the flight. -Z

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