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Linux systems running on PowerPC microprocessors.
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error booting debian on openpower 710
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I performed a standard install of debian 7, using all of the default options, and a guided partition using the entire disk. Despite this, when I go to boot the machine, it stops booting with a kernel panic do to a failure to find /init. This appears to be an issue with the initrd image. Is there anything that I should look at first to try and get this working?... more »
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The UK Device Developers' Conference
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Hi, this year will see the first UK Device Developers' Conference. It will take place in Bristol, Cambridge and Manchester - May 14th, 16th and 22nd. It will be free to engineers, project managers and students. There will be an exhibition of hardware, software, development tools etc - an agenda of useful and productive presentations and 4 half-day technical workshops (£75 per place).... more »
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Trouble with ATI Radeon driver
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Hi,
i have installed Lubuntu 12.04. on a Power Macintosh G4 AGP Graphics machine. The installation went well and i can start the graphical environment called LXDE Desktop.
Now i got strange behavior when i launch an application like firefox. The Computer freezes and the kernel shows some messages like instruction... more »
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Why SIGILL ???
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Pardon me to interpret you guys with my question.
About SIGILL signal,
According to wiki.
On POSIX-compliant platforms, SIGILL is the signal sent to a process when it attempts to execute a malformed, unknown, or privileged instruction. The symbolic constant for SIGILL is defined in the signal.h header file. Symbolic signal names are used because signal numbers can vary across platforms.... more »
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Troubles with mounting firewire drives
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Hi there,
I've ressurected my Powerbook G3 pismo and it's running 2.6.32-5-powerpc just great... except for mounting firewire drives. Anyone here who can help?
When I plug in an external firewire drive, I see the following messages:
Jun 26 21:49:14 debian kernel: [20282.231276] firewire_core: giving up... more »
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Debian PowerPC - trouble backgrounding a process
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I'm porting an application from ARM architecture to PowerPC, which is
going quite well. I've encountered an odd problem with some open
source code I'm using - a daemon process won't background as it
should. After comparing the process's system calls, it looks like the
PowerPC binary is not calling clone() after a MSG_NOSIGNAL. Also,... more »
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ARAnyM miniPack
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Hi,
ARAnyM <[link]> is the ATARI Virtual Machine from
which a minimal configuration, the *miniPack* is distributed
<[link]> It supports :
`MacAranym` allows launching on PPC Macintosh with Mac OS X
`MacAranym JIT` allows launching on IntelMac with Mac OS X... more »
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** Is PowerPc Imac able to boot up to a Linux cd?
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Hello There:
I got an IMac G5 PowerPc with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger operating system.
I would like to install Linux in it, I downloaded Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Debian and
I have Kopix as well. When I boot the Imac, with the cd inside I press "C"
to boot up from the Cd/Dvd to no avail. I tried with all the Linux.... more »
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memory mapping for UBOOT
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Hello,
First of all, I would like to say to you that I'm French ...So if you are French , don't hesitate to speak your language !!!
Anyway, my problem is the following :
I've to make a "portage" of an C application, from QNX to Linux. My main issue is how to configure UBOOT to boot from scratch ?... more »
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Power Mac G5 & Radeon X1900 - driver problem
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I was attempting to get Debian (Squeeze, latest net-install CD) working with a Radeon X1900 Mac edition video card (PCI-Express) on my Power Mac G5 Quad. The installer acted a bit weird right from the start, telling me that the step "Install the system" failed (with nothing in the way of useful error information,) but I got the base... more »
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