Re: libmoto PowerPC-optimized math library?

"C.M. Connelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > *sigh* > > So, after a bit more experimentation, I'm not seeing much of a > difference. > > I built the nbench-byte benchmarking program (BYTEmark* Native > Mode Benchmark ver. 2 (10/95) Index-split by Andrew D. Balsa > (11/97) Linux/Unix* port by Uw

Re: broken link (and a fix) for PPC linux

Forwarding to the powerpc mailing list. They should know. On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 12:05:30AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Your page at > >http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/docu > > Has a link to some i386 cross compilation stuff at > >http://members.home.com/mmporter/cro

Re: libmoto PowerPC-optimized math library?

*sigh* So, after a bit more experimentation, I'm not seeing much of a difference. I built the nbench-byte benchmarking program (BYTEmark* Native Mode Benchmark ver. 2 (10/95) Index-split by Andrew D. Balsa (11/97) Linux/Unix* port by Uwe F. Mayer (12/96,11/97)), available from

Re: No Sound? was Re: Xpmac = no adbmouse?

unit3 wrote: > Onto another question though, it appears the sound support on my > machine is nonexistant, in fact /dev/dsp is totally missing! /dev/MAKEDEV audio > Is this a kernel issue, or was some sound configuration program not run > properly, or what? If the device node is there, and sound

No Sound? was Re: Xpmac = no adbmouse?

At 10:53 PM +0200 8/17/2000, Michel Dänzer wrote: unit3 wrote: http://linuxppc.org/usr/xf4/ AFAIK it should work fine as long as your kernel doesn't have a broken atyfb. It appears to be working fine for Xpmac, but that's really no judge I guess. PS: X 4 debs shouldn't be too far away, and D

[ANN] Quake & tuxracer packages

I'm uploading packages to http://n.ethz.ch/student/daenzerm/download/debs/ . The quake clients actually have working sound (patch submitted to the quake project @sourceforge). The GL packages probably only make sense with DRI, check my earlier announcement for test tarballs (hint: http://n.et

Re: Xpmac = no adbmouse?

unit3 wrote: > Now that I've got a working setup, I'm feeling the need to test out > XFree4, since I hear it's much faster.. any idea what the current > status of Mach64/RagePro support is? Last I heard it was > hit-and-miss... http://linuxppc.org/usr/xf4/ AFAIK it should work fine as long as yo

Re: Xpmac = no adbmouse?

At 3:32 PM -0700 8/16/2000, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: I'm currently using the Aug 5 Paulus kernel (2.2.17pre15) from http://kernel.xorsis.com/ ... it doesn't have Ben's new input system yet... I just upgraded my system to this, and no other changes, and now my mouse works, with no other chang

Re: Potato CD image for PowerPC!

On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 09:25:45AM +0200, Jonathan Belson wrote: > >On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 04:24:05PM -0700, Dongsoo Kang wrote: > >> > >> Is the current release of "binary-powerpc-1.iso" bootable? > >> Actually I tried to install Debian Linux 2.2 into RS/6000 43P. > >> But I failed to boot and i

Re: M U L T I P R O C E S S I N G

>At 1:47 AM + 8/17/2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>is it possible to run multiprocessing on a PowerMac 9500/180MP using >>debian ppc ? > >Which leads to another interesting question: if SMP support is there, >does it work with the new dual G4 macs? The "old way" SMP (Apple/Daystar) is suppo

Re: Dual G4 macs

Richard Boulton wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:51:52PM -0600, unit3 wrote: > > Which leads to another interesting question: if SMP support is there, > > does it work with the new dual G4 macs? > > I am very interested in the answer to this question: I've been thinking > of buying a dual G4

Dual G4 macs

On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:51:52PM -0600, unit3 wrote: > Which leads to another interesting question: if SMP support is there, > does it work with the new dual G4 macs? I am very interested in the answer to this question: I've been thinking of buying a dual G4 mac, but would only be happy to do s

Re: Xpmac = no adbmouse?

> >I checked that /dev/mouse was symlinked to /dev/adbmouse, check. >Mouse works on the console via GPM, so I know that's not the >problem.. I understand that Xpmac doesn't use the XF86Config file, >that it needs commandline options, so can someone tell me the >commandline options to replace th

Re: libmoto PowerPC-optimized math library?

Quoting "C.M. Connelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > My housemate was discussing compiler performance on the Darwin > list yesterday, and wrote a couple of quick programs (in C) to get > some numbers. (Someone had asked about the performance of code > compiled with -O3 optimization under gcc versus

Re: libmoto PowerPC-optimized math library?

At 12:50 AM -0700 8/17/2000, C.M. Connelly wrote: My housemate then did a search for ``PowerPC math library Motorola'', and found libmoto.a, an optimized math library created by Motorola back in 1996, and released under a free-as-in-beer license (only as object code, and with license restrictions

Potato .iso ?

Hi, I'm looking for a site in Europe where I could download the CD images for the release version of Debian/PPC. Any hints ? All I could find was i386 images or really old ones, and I can't rsync to cdimage.d.o Cheers PS: .se, .fi or .no preferred, this is were the backbone of the company's g

xpmac no adbmouse-use lppc2k kernel

Sorry I forgot to mention that I used the Linuxppc 2000 Standard kernel, until I made my own. It didn't work with the debian kernel for me either. Good luck Fredrik

Re: Potato CD image for PowerPC!

>On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 04:24:05PM -0700, Dongsoo Kang wrote: (B>> (B>> Is the current release of "binary-powerpc-1.iso" bootable? (B>> Actually I tried to install Debian Linux 2.2 into RS/6000 43P. (B>> But I failed to boot and install it from CD. (B> (B>If that's a PREP system, it should

libmoto PowerPC-optimized math library?

My housemate was discussing compiler performance on the Darwin list yesterday, and wrote a couple of quick programs (in C) to get some numbers. (Someone had asked about the performance of code compiled with -O3 optimization under gcc versus code compiled with CodeWarrior.) We were surprised that

Re: Xpmac = no adbmouse?

> What kernel are you using? Newer BenH kernels have changed the input > system such that the mouse no longer works with Xpmac unless they are > compiled with special options. #define CONFIG_ADBMOUSE=y and make sure there are no #ifndef CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV in drivers/char/adbmouse.c. The new

Re: Xpmac = no adbmouse?

On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 03:32:28PM -0700, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wanted to say the following: > I'm currently using the Aug 5 Paulus kernel (2.2.17pre15) from > http://kernel.xorsis.com/ ... it doesn't have Ben's new input system > yet... Just a dummy check: If you use the new input layer, did you c