Hardware: 7200/120 with 48M, 2G hard drive recycled from a HP 9000 box. All of this stuff was donated to a local computer recycler except the memory. My objective is to demonstrate newer application software on discarded hardware, so the hardware gets put back into use instead of being scrapped.
Installed from recent boot and root floppies, then http through motherboard ethernet to a DSL connection. IP address, routing, and DNS are all successfuly set via DHCP to a Netgear router. (sympathies to Colin Foran about current ethernet problems). xfree86 server config required fiddling with mouse and framebuffer settings /dev/input/mice for the ADB mouse. windowmaker is not a good window manager with a one-button ADB mouse. The F11 and F12 keys are intercepted and changing the windowmaker config for mouse activity hasn't unmasked them. Still fiddling. Activating audio required modprobe dmasound (made permandent via echo dmasound >>/etc/modules ), chmod 666 /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer to allow non-root to use sound. xmms (with cdread) and mozilla are working adequately. Not a bad cd-audio and MP3 player. openoffice.org 1.0 from openoffice.org (.tar.gz) is installed but will be deinstalled. It starts extremely slowly, and initially has a glacial response to keyboard and mouse activity. It gets faster after a few minutes. gkrellm reading on memory usage suggests that this is not limited by memory; almost no swap usage even with 32M. (Maybe gkrellm is not reading memory usage right. I can't believe that openoffice will run in this little memory without severe thrashing.) Remining todo are to get the emulated right mousebutton working and to replace openoffice with abiword and gnumeric. Good work by the ppc woody distribution team and the ppc porters! -- SP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
