Titanium powerbook and oddities with 2.4.7 kernel
I am using the 2.4.7-pre7benh20010719 kernel on a G4 Titanium laptop. I have encountered a few oddities... After the machine has been on for a few hours, the airport card starts dropping packets. Of course, during the time that the machine is on, the fan fails to activate entirely. Under MacOS X or MacOS 9, the fan does activate, so I know that it is not a problem with the fan itself. Also under MacOS X and MacOS 9, the airport card doesn't display the same problem with packet dropping. I've got the ALSA sound drivers installed, but when I try to use the cdrom for audio, TCD doesn't detect the audio cd in the drive. Data CDs can be properly mounted and read, and both data and audio CDs are OK under MacOS X and MacOS 9. Suggestions? -jennifer
Re: Titanium powerbook and oddities with 2.4.7 kernel
On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Mark Janssen wrote: > > The packet dropping may be because the system is getting too hot, because > the fan isn't running ??? Is it getting warm/hot over time ?? Believe me, the machine gets REALLY toasty. I could use it as a coffee warmer if the heat came out the top. As it is, the surface it sits on (my lap, the table, etc.) gets toasty. Doesn't matter which OS is running, it gets HOT. Less hot under MacOS because, of course, the fan kicks in. > > The fan might not be running for 2 reasons > 1. Fan control might be software based, and linux doesn't have > the appropriate software ??? > 2. Linux is more power efficient, and won't make your system run > as hot as to require the fan to go on. (in case of automatic fan > control, hardware) > > Option 2 off course means that the packet loss on the airport probably > won't be caused by heat... > > Hope this helps... > > (My laptop will turn off the keyboard when getting too hot,... really > irritating) > > Mark Janssen Unix Consultant @ SyConOS IT > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 > http: maniac.nl, unix-god.[net|org], markjanssen.[com|net|org|nl] >
Re: not playing nicely
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Andrew Sharp wrote: > James Moss wrote: > > > > On Monday, 30 July 2001, at 11:22:58 (-0700), chamster wrote: > > > Have you been able to boot off this CD on other Macs, preferably a similar > > > model? > > > > > Oddly enough, I was able to boot this very machine several times and install > > debian, etc... but then I got a new hard drive. The Hard drive is fine, > > I've installed debian on it, so I know it can be done. Ever since I updated > > OSX from the "update Software" System Preferece, it hasn't worked. I'm > > completely baffled. On a side note, LinuxPPC still works (just tested it to > > see if it would work). I tend to want to put the blame on the kernel that > > is distributed with potato (since that's the boot disks I'm using). Are > > there newer boot disks available? Something perhaps with a 2.4.x kernel on > > it? > > That's funny, it worked until you did something dangerous like > "update software" in apple land, but you blame it on the linux > kernel?? This list is littered with posts from people that had > trouble with this sort of thing after letting osx near their hard > disk. > I installed MacOS 9.1 then MacOS X and then debian... I have since run the software update under MacOS X and not had problems (knock on wood). I made extensive use of http://debian.jones.dk/debian/local/auryn/ and http://www.xiph.org/~jack/ibook/instnotes.html (just as a guide as I installed on a Titanium not on an iBook) - there may have been one more, but I don't have it handy. I created 4.5 GB partitions each for MacOS, with the remaining 10GB or so for linux. It took a little futzing to get the partitions just right... Cheers, -jennifer
Re: wireless lan config
Check out QuickSwitch http://www.muthanna.com/quickswitch/Docs/docs.html -jennifer On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, NeilFred Picciotto wrote: > > Here's a version of what's in my /etc/network/interfaces. You can > > basically put anything after "up" -- see man interfaces(5). > > > > iface eth1 inet static > > address 10.0.0.21 > > netmask 255.0.0.0 > > gateway 10.0.0.1 > > up iwconfig eth1 essid BlahBlahBlah > > up iwconfig eth1 enc yadayada > > up iwconfig eth1 nick loki > > this is a pretty slick way of doing it. but does anyone have a convenient > way of switching between multiple locations (with different network > passwords, and so on)? > > ...derFlieN >
Re: debian: sawfish crashing
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 08:02:13PM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote: > > I'm running Debian on a PowerBook Ti laptop. It has a combination of > > mainly testing with a bit of unstable. I'm running gnome and sawfish as > > my GUI environment. I have noticed that sawfish crashes on a regular > > basis. Sometimes a couple of times a day and sometimes every couple of > > days. It does seem more noticeable when mozilla is running. Has anyone > > else seen similar problems. > > It happens on IA64 a lot as well. Not sure if this is the same bug or a > different one. > I'm running windowmaker on a TiBook... 2.4.9 kernel and the latest packages. I find that X in general is unstable. In particular, when the system has a load of >1, X crashes and drops me back to the prompt. It happens with and without gnome apps, with/without netscape running, with/without mozilla -jennifer
Re: Setting Hardwareclock
Actually, I seem to recall that hwclock doesn't function properly on powerpc. I found the following article pretty useful: http://lppcfom.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/1042.html Beware... if you follow these instructions, your modifications will be obliterated whenever hwclock gets upgraded through apt-get dist-upgrade. Hope this helps, -jennifer On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 12:41:44AM +0100, Mark Baumann wrote: > > Hallo! > > I have a Proplem to set my hwclock via ntpdate, it's not possible to set > > it with "hwclock --set --date "time and date". > > Any suggestions how to love this? It's not nice to live in the year > > 1938;-) > > I don't know what the right way is, but I've been using date to set the > date and then the --systohc option on hwclock. > >
