ppc August 2009

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Es of the lighter armament and the machine-guns posted in the fighting-to
by Sissel Yepez 22 Aug '09

22 Aug '09

G the battle." The Colonel turned to a young officer standing a little distance away-- "Lieutenant Osarov, is it true that you recognised in this man, when he was brought in here last night, a person whom you saw in an English square during the progress of the battle?" "Yes, Colonel, I did!" was the decided reply. "I recognise him now quite clearly. He was riding a black horse, and dashed off when we broke into the square." Heideck perceived that it would be useless to deny the fact, in the face of this direct evidence, and his military honour would, in any case, not have permitted him to do so. "What the lieutenant has said is quite correct," he answered, anticipating the Colonel's question; "but I did not take part in the fighting. As a friend of Colonel Baird, who was killed, I kept as long as possible close to him, so as to be able to bring his relations, who were left behind in Lahore, tidings of his fate and of the issue of the battle." "You, a foreigner, were armed in the English square. Since you confess this much, we need not trouble ourselves with further proceedings. You, gentlemen, will all agree that we should treat him, according to martial law, as a traitor?" The last words were addressed to the other judges, and, with a silent bow,

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A puzzle: getting Fedora PPC on to an iBook G4
by Richard W.M. Jones 09 Aug '09

09 Aug '09

I have a late 2003 iBook G4. It's one of the ones that had the display fault which Apple wouldn't admit to[1]. The upshot of this is: the internal LCD does not work. Being an iBook, it also doesn't have a serial port. However it does have wired network, an external display and several USB ports. Currently it is running Mac OS X, using the external display. Here's a puzzle for you: how do I get Fedora PPC on this machine? There is no visible way to get to the OpenFirmware boot prompt. (I mean, I can get to it, but I have to type blind, and I don't see any messages). It does seem to boot into the Fedora PPC CD disk 1, judging by the noises it makes. Of course it's not very much use because it won't use the external display, so I can't see anything. I have not been able to get it to netboot. It sends packets to my dnsmasq-based PXE server, and dnsmasq sends packets back, but nothing further happens. (This dnsmasq configuration can boot PC guests fine). Is there something I can type blind at the CD prompt? (And what?) Is there another boot method? Serial-over-ethernet? USB serial ports? (I don't have one, but I could get one if you think they would work). A way to boot from within OS X? Can I get OpenFirmware to use the external display? The answer to this one is, I suspect, 'yes', but I cannot find the right voodoo for the nvram output-device parameter to make it work in reality. Display card is ATY,RV280M9+ and dmesg suggests the internal and external displays are called ATY,Via_A and ATY,Via_B respectively. Any other ideas? I've spent several days on this, but I'm getting nowhere fast :-( Rich. [1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/03/danish_consumer_complaints_board_cl… -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top

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Unable to remap caps-lock in f11
by Sefton 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Hello fedora-ppc list, I am looking for some help, pointers on remapping my caps-lock key. Without any problems I was able to remapped the caps-lock key on my Powerbook g4 titanium 400mhz in f10 using the gnome keyboard panel but have not been able to do the same by any means in f11. I think I have narrowed the cause down to the incorrect keycodes being sent by the keyboard. It looks like it is possible the keyboard is an adb keyboard that is sending incorrect codes and requires a kernel patch to mangle the codes into recognizable caps-lock codes. http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/12/msg00214.html I was wondering if anyone can give me some direction in finding if this was applied to the kernel in f10 or if another fix was used to allow remapping of the caps-lock key in f10. Any help on this much appreciated. Cheers, Sefton

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