Adélie Linux 1.0-BETA3 Released
by A. Wilcox
TULSA, OKLAHOMA (31 May 2019) — The Adélie Linux Release Engineering
Team is pleased to announce the immediate release of Adélie Linux
1.0-BETA3 for all supported platforms:
https://distfiles.adelielinux.org/adelie/1.0-beta3/iso/
Please note: This is a test release of Adélie Linux. While every care
has been taken to ensure the stability of the system, features and
packages may be missing or may not function correctly. You should always
back up your computer’s data before you install a new Linux distribution.
Tier 1 platforms supported for this release: 32-bit PowerPC, 64-bit
PowerPC, 32-bit Intel x86, 64-bit Intel x86, 64-bit ARM (AArch64).
Tier 2 platforms supported for this release: ARMv7.
Release Notes
=============
All architectures
-----------------
* GCC has been updated to 8.3.0, and the entire distribution has been
rebuilt using it.
* gcompat has been updated to support more glibc software. libucontext
has been updated to support all Tier 1 architectures.
* The Go programming language is now available via gcc-go.
* Ghostscript is now available, which allows most printers to function
using CUPS and Gutenprint.
* Java is now available.
* LLVM and Clang have been updated to 8.0.0. Additionally, our LLVM
package now supports the SPARC and WebAssembly targets.
* The MATE desktop environment is now available.
* MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) support, used by many digital cameras,
has been added.
* NetworkManager and ModemManager are now available, and have been
tested and are known to work.
* Qt 5 Speech is now packaged, allowing some applications to deliver
text-to-speech functionality.
* XScreenSaver is now available.
* Development: Sphinx and Subversion are now available.
* Fonts: Nearly 50 new fonts have been added.
* KDE: Applications has been updated to 19.04.1, Frameworks have been
updated to 5.54.0.
* Networking: iw, netqmail, Netsurf, NFS, NMap, Postfix, RDesktop, and
WireGuard are now available.
* Productivity: AbiWord, Evince, Gnumeric, and LibreOffice are now
available.
* …and over a thousand other enhancements, upgrades, and fixes!
ARMv7
-----
Support for ARMv7 is offered on a limited testing basis only, and ARMv7
remains a Tier 2 architecture. The system/ repository is available for
ARMv7 in Adélie Linux 1.0-BETA3. The user/ repository is not available.
64-bit ARM (AArch64)
--------------------
Full support for the Raspberry Pi 3 has been added to easy-kernel.
PowerPC (32-bit)
----------------
An issue with USB booting on 32-bit PowerPC has been fixed.
PowerPC (64-bit)
----------------
Many issues involving booting our live and full-install media have been
fixed on 64-bit PowerPC. Our 1.0-BETA3 media has been tested on Power
Mac G5, IBM POWER6, Raptor Talos II, QEMU KVM, and Raptor Blackbird.
Intel x86 (all)
---------------
Media support for EFI has been fixed.
Statistics
==========
Adélie Packages
---------------
There were 1683 commits to packages.git between 1.0-BETA2 and 1.0-BETA3,
by twelve developers:
933 A. Wilcox
547 Kiyoshi Aman
75 zlg
53 Luis Ressel
35 Max Rees
15 Laurent Bercot
12 Dan Theisen
6 multiplexd
2 Bobby Bingham
2 Gavin Howard
2 Samuel Holland
1 Brandon Bergren
Team
----
We welcomed Luis Ressel (aranea@) and sysvinit@ as a committer during
this release cycle.
--
A. Wilcox (awilfox)
Project Lead, Adélie Linux
https://www.adelielinux.org
1 year, 11 months
Hardware acceleration not working - "Unable to locate a BIOS ROM"
by Nicol?s Colla
When starting X, everything is really slow. Dragging windows produces an astonishing amount of lag, and CPU usage is really high when idle (50-75%). Opening Firefox takes the CPU to 100%, and trying to scroll the page in a simple HTML page is impossible. This is happening with a G3 processor, but, as far as I know, it shouldn't be that slow. I am pretty sure that hardware acceleration is not working. This is confirmed by an error message during boot, that I attach below. An OpenBSD installation has the exact same problem, with the exact same error.
The machine is an iBook G3 "Snow"
GPU: ATI Mobility Radeon 7500
Installed drivers are xf86-video-ati and mesa
Output of dmesg | grep radeon:
[ 14.561128] radeonfb 0000:00:10.0: enabling device (0086 -> 0087)
[ 14.561192] radeonfb 0000:00:10.0: BAR 0: can't reserve [mem 0x98000000-0x9fffffff pref]
[ 14.561199] radeonfb (0000:00:10.0): cannot request region 0.
[ 14.561232] radeonfb: probe of 0000:00:10.0 failed with error -16
[ 17.141874] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
[ 17.142177] fb: switching to radeondrmfb from OFfb ATY,Bee_A
[ 17.147222] fb: switching to radeondrmfb from OFfb ATY,Bee_B
[ 17.150317] radeon 0000:00:10.0: Invalid PCI ROM header signature: expecting 0xaa55, got 0x0000
[ 17.150348] radeon 0000:00:10.0: Invalid PCI ROM header signature: expecting 0xaa55, got 0x0000
[ 17.151379] [drm:radeon_get_bios [radeon]] *ERROR* Unable to locate a BIOS ROM
[ 17.151739] radeon 0000:00:10.0: putting AGP V2 device into 2x mode
[ 17.151790] radeon 0000:00:10.0: GTT: 256M 0x00000000 - 0x0FFFFFFF
[ 17.151810] radeon 0000:00:10.0: VRAM: 128M 0x0000000098000000 - 0x000000009FFFFFFF (32M used)
[ 17.152384] [drm] radeon: 32M of VRAM memory ready
[ 17.152390] [drm] radeon: 256M of GTT memory ready.
[ 17.160042] radeon 0000:00:10.0: WB disabled
[ 17.160073] radeon 0000:00:10.0: fence driver on ring 0 use gpu addr 0x0000000000000000 and cpu addr 0xd1c2b000
[ 17.160190] [drm] radeon: irq initialized.
[ 17.160352] radeon 0000:00:10.0: Direct firmware load for radeon/R100_cp.bin failed with error -2
[ 17.160363] radeon_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/R100_cp.bin"
[ 17.161320] [drm:r100_cp_init [radeon]] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!
[ 17.161650] radeon 0000:00:10.0: failed initializing CP (-2).
[ 17.161657] radeon 0000:00:10.0: Disabling GPU acceleration
[ 17.161669] [drm] radeon: cp finalized
[ 17.161841] [drm] radeon: cp finalized
[ 17.163286] [drm] radeon: ttm finalized
[ 17.163383] radeon 0000:00:10.0: Invalid PCI ROM header signature: expecting 0xaa55, got 0x0000
[ 17.163413] radeon 0000:00:10.0: Invalid PCI ROM header signature: expecting 0xaa55, got 0x0000
[ 17.163813] [drm:radeon_get_bios [radeon]] *ERROR* Unable to locate a BIOS ROM
[ 17.163873] radeon 0000:00:10.0: VRAM: 128M 0x0000000098000000 - 0x000000009FFFFFFF (32M used)
[ 17.163883] radeon 0000:00:10.0: GTT: 512M 0x0000000078000000 - 0x0000000097FFFFFF
[ 17.164446] [drm] radeon: 32M of VRAM memory ready
[ 17.164452] [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready.
[ 17.177609] radeon 0000:00:10.0: WB disabled
[ 17.177630] radeon 0000:00:10.0: fence driver on ring 0 use gpu addr 0x0000000078000000 and cpu addr 0xcd7ca000
[ 17.177744] [drm] radeon: irq initialized.
[ 17.177936] radeon 0000:00:10.0: Direct firmware load for radeon/R100_cp.bin failed with error -2
[ 17.177951] radeon_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/R100_cp.bin"
[ 17.179200] [drm:r100_cp_init [radeon]] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!
[ 17.179209] radeon 0000:00:10.0: failed initializing CP (-2).
[ 17.179216] radeon 0000:00:10.0: Disabling GPU acceleration
[ 17.179227] [drm] radeon: cp finalized
[ 17.902067] [drm] radeon legacy LVDS backlight initialized
[ 19.904700] radeon 0000:00:10.0: fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device
[ 19.931667] [drm] Initialized radeon 2.50.0 20080528 for 0000:00:10.0 on minor 0
xorg.conf file contents (automatically generated by Xorg -configure):
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "${prefix}/share/fonts/X11/misc/"
FontPath "${prefix}/share/fonts/X11/TTF/"
FontPath "${prefix}/share/fonts/X11/OTF/"
FontPath "${prefix}/share/fonts/X11/Type1/"
FontPath "${prefix}/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/"
FontPath "${prefix}/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz",
### <percent>: "<f>%"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "Accel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "EnablePageFlip" # [<bool>]
#Option "ColorTiling" # [<bool>]
#Option "ColorTiling2D" # [<bool>]
#Option "RenderAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SubPixelOrder" # [<str>]
#Option "AccelMethod" # <str>
#Option "ShadowPrimary" # [<bool>]
#Option "EXAVSync" # [<bool>]
#Option "EXAPixmaps" # [<bool>]
#Option "ZaphodHeads" # <str>
#Option "SwapbuffersWait" # [<bool>]
#Option "DeleteUnusedDP12Displays" # [<bool>]
#Option "DRI3" # [<bool>]
#Option "DRI" # <i>
#Option "TearFree" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "radeon"
BusID "PCI:0:16:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Thanks for your attention,
Nicolás Colla
nicolascolla(a)mail.ru
1 year, 11 months
distfiles.adelielinux.org is not on-line
by Nicol?s Colla
Hello,
Thank you very much for your amazing work. This is the first time I am using this mailing list, so I might be doing something wrong. Sorry if this is the case.
I am installing Adélie Linux on my PowerPC machine following the documentation instructions (https://wiki.adelielinux.org/wiki/HOWTO:Manually_install_Ad%C3%A9lie_Linux), and I am stuck in the "Configure APK" chapter of the manual.
When I run the "apk --root /target update" command, the system is not able to fetch the required files. It seems like the mirror is not working, since I am not able to ping the mirror's address.
Is this correct? And, if so, is there any other mirror that could be used?
Thank you,
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1 year, 11 months