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[arch-ports] [ppc] Bugtracker
by Alexander Baldeck 21 Aug '07

21 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 15 Aug '07

15 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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[arch-ports] [PPC] One Last Bug Report For the List!
by Matthew William Cox 27 Jul '07

27 Jul '07

The bug tracker on bugs.archlinuxppc.org is still broken (can't submit bugs.) I'll post this here. It seems that the openssh package was broken when it was built. The problem is that it contains hardcoded strings to the wrong xauth. This breaks X11 forwarding (to and from) unless a corrected address is inserted in the config files. > $ pacman -Qo /usr/bin/xauth /usr/bin/ssh /usr/sbin/sshd > /usr/bin/xauth is owned by xorg-xauth 1.0.2-1 > /usr/bin/ssh is owned by openssh 4.6p1-5 > /usr/sbin/sshd is owned by openssh 4.6p1-5 > $ strings /usr/bin/ssh | grep xauth Wrong path here: > /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth > xauthlocation > No xauth program. > %s/xauthfile > Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. > $ strings /usr/sbin/sshd | grep xauth and again here: > /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth > xauthlocation > maxauthtries > No xauth program; cannot forward with spoofing. Package needs a rebuild. Matt

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[arch-ports] New in ArchPPC and some problem
by gianluca mazza 24 Jul '07

24 Jul '07

Hi all, I'm new here. I installed Arch in my macmini (G4) using your wiki (great guide), but I'm having some problem to proceed in arch. I'm trying to install X, so I installed: Xorg (and dependencies), xf86-video-ati, xf86-input-keyboard, xf86-input-mouse. I configured X with xorgconfig (I think correctly) but when I try "startx" I've black screen, and monitor does like there is no signal (appears a popup who search for digital or analogic signal). I modified monitor vertical sync like in monitor manual but nothing, X doesn't start. It's not possible to use hwd on ppc to configure it? I think that this is a great project (and arch is a great distro), thanks for your work.

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[arch-ports] some problem in sound powermac
by sacarde 23 Jul '07

23 Jul '07

Hi, in my archlinuxppc I have some problem playing sound... for example: mpg321 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Rear_Left.wav ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:866:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave No default libao driver available. aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Rear_Left.wav ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:866:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave aplay: main:545: audio open error: No such file or directory mplayer /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Rear_Left.wav work OK my sound card is snd-powermac, package I have: alsautils, alsalib, libao,... module loaded: snd-aoa snd-aoa-fabric-layout snd-powermac... thankyou sacarde(a)tiscali.it

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[arch-ports] Usage of arch-ports mailing list
by Alexander Baldeck 21 Jul '07

21 Jul '07

Dear readers of arch-ports, I would like to recommend to only use arch-ports for architecture specific questions. Topic involved would be: * booting & installation * architecture dependent compilation * architecture specific bugs * packages that do not exits on any other platform * package requests Anything else should go to the regular arch mailing list. It is much more likely to get your questions answered there as well. Recent examples such as printing are by no means architecture specific unless there's a bug only on that one architecture, which is in most of the cases very unlikely. Cheers, -L

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