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Wilhelm *rafial* Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > So far, so good. Closing it makes it sleep. [...]
> >
> >Does anyone know if there is support for this for the tibook?
>
> This works fine on my TiBook as long as I am in X when I put
On 26 Nisan 5761, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote:
>> Comments, anyone? how bad is 7.5.5?
>
> 7.5.5 was okay. Don't go near any of the earlier 7.5's with a ten
> foot pole. 7.6, and especially 7.6.1 were really good...
I wouldn't go that far. 7.5.3 (r2 for PCI Power Macs) was really
good. 7.5.5
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 05:15:41PM -0700, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote:
>> > Comments, anyone? how bad is 7.5.5?
>From further down on the page where you linked is the bad news:
---
Note that self-mounting Disk Images require Mac OS version 7.0.1 or later.
If you are using a version of Mac OS
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 05:15:41PM -0700, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote:
> > Comments, anyone? how bad is 7.5.5?
>
> 7.5.5 was okay. Don't go near any of the earlier 7.5's with a ten foot
> pole. 7.6, and especially 7.6.1 were really good...
They have it set up as 7.5.3 is available for download
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:44:24PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > To have a central macos image, you just need to mmap( ..., MAP_PRIVATE, ),
> > so your changes are made copy-on-write. (You might want to do this within
> > the program instead of leaving it to the kernel, so you could write change
> Comments, anyone? how bad is 7.5.5?
7.5.5 was okay. Don't go near any of the earlier 7.5's with a ten foot
pole. 7.6, and especially 7.6.1 were really good...
-raf
I compiled and updated to yesterdays BenH 2.3.4pre3 from an older BenH
2.3.3, because Ben had alluded to adding some basic power management stuff
for the TiBooks. I have to say that the new kernel seems to run
significantly cooler than the old one (I 'book was getting hot enough that
I started to
Someone told me that an old version of MacOS, 7.5, is available for free
from Apple: http://asu.info.apple.com/swupdates.nsf/artnum/n11258. This is
interesting for me because I bought my computer with MacOS on it, but I
don't have a way to reinstall MacOS, so I'm afraid of screwing it up if I
br
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:31:08PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:51:17AM -0500, W. Crowshaw wrote:
> > Actually, it doesn't hurt anything if the MacOS HFS FS is mounted on the
> > kernel
> > and hmount'ed with hfsutils. I access the HFS FS both mounted and hmounted
> > al
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 08:35:53PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 04:56:46AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > (though vmware has an interesting
> > system where the disk image is no larger then the ammount of data it
> > holds, it grows as you add data, until you hit the precon
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 04:56:46AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> (though vmware has an interesting
> system where the disk image is no larger then the ammount of data it
> holds, it grows as you add data, until you hit the preconfigured
> limit).
Can't you achieve the same result fairly easily
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 07:58:59PM -0700, Tovar wrote:
> > Drive Setup is a very weak program, that AFAIK allows only integral
> numbers
> > of M to be typed in.
>
> thats why you should NOT use drive setup to create linux partitions.
> please read and follow:
>
> http://www.
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:51:17AM -0500, W. Crowshaw wrote:
> Actually, it doesn't hurt anything if the MacOS HFS FS is mounted on the
> kernel
> and hmount'ed with hfsutils. I access the HFS FS both mounted and hmounted
> all the time.
then you have been lucky. the kernel will NOT be aware of
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 09:07:16AM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote:
> On 18 Apr, this message from Ethan Benson echoed through cyberspace:
> > i was going to look at this again to see what i could come up with.
> > one really tricky problem is it seems you often MUST recompile the mol
> > modules agai
On 19 Apr, this message from Michael Schmitz echoed through cyberspace:
>> Most problematic seem
>> to be the hdparm stuff. I've had my kernel complain a few times about
>> DMA IRQ timeout, resting IDE buses, and some such, when I experimented
>> with sleep.
>
> Did it stay hung forever, or did o
It looks like we'll be getting more drivers faster :) Hopefully, they won't
have to sign NDAs or release binary-only drivers.
Mike
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Device driv
> Drive Setup is a very weak program, that AFAIK allows only integral
numbers
> of M to be typed in.
thats why you should NOT use drive setup to create linux partitions.
please read and follow:
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc/mac-fdisk-basics.txt
you need to create o
> > closing my cover, and sometimes the throbbing led comes on after about
> > 10-15 seconds; other times it seems to never come on. It also seems
> > to take a long time (30secs-1m) to wake up after making it sleep this
> > way.
>
> The problem here is, I think, f**k'ed up scripts to pmud. Look i
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:02:48AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:55:26AM -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
> > It is a Mac OS application, and therefore has a filetype,
> > creator code, and resource fork. While you might be able to extract the
> > bitstreams of all thes
On 18 Apr, this message from Benjamin Herrenschmidt echoed through cyberspace:
>>So far, so good. Closing it makes it sleep. Now, here's my question: Is
> there
>>a way to make it
>>a) wake up on a LAN connection and/or
>>b) wake up at a certain time, thus still allow it to execute cron jobs for
On 19 Apr, this message from Colin Walters echoed through cyberspace:
>> So far, so good. Closing it makes it sleep. [...]
>
> Does anyone know if there is support for this for the tibook? I tried
> closing my cover, and sometimes the throbbing led comes on after about
> 10-15 seconds; other ti
On 18 Apr, this message from Ethan Benson echoed through cyberspace:
> i was going to look at this again to see what i could come up with.
> one really tricky problem is it seems you often MUST recompile the mol
> modules against the exact kernel source of the running kernel.
> otherwise they don'
I tryed this before your mail as the ultimate solution, and now it's OK.
Thank you for yuor help,
Landry.
Philipp Kaeser wrote:
>
> [landry's request didn't go to the list, so if anyone
> else has a good clue what to do with that troublesome
> Mac, please let him know [and not *me*, thnx :) ]
Hi there,
I've built the latest OpenOffice snapshot (625) for Linux/PPC platforms. The
packages can be downloaded at http://philikon.de/files/oo_linuxppc
Cheers,
Phil.
P.S.: Please CC responses to me as I am not a subscriber to all lists
--
Philipp von Weitershausen
[ *pronounce: "fun
[landry's request didn't go to the list, so if anyone
else has a good clue what to do with that troublesome
Mac, please let him know [and not *me*, thnx :) ]
> Thanks for the info.
> After many tests with the tricky OF, I think I had lost the mac, no
> prompt and no boot at all, the screen goes of
Hi,
Ethan Benson writes:
> someone made an ITP for mol several monthes ago, but i don't think
> anything ever came of it..
That's because shortly after said ITP I upgraded to MacOS 9.1, which
completely hosed mol on my system. The whole thing only became stable
again about two weeks ago, and I
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:28:43AM -0500, Brian Dunnette wrote:
> Okay, fixed the partition type, then ran 'ybin -C /target/etc/yaboot.conf -m
> /target/etc/ofboot.b', which returned several 'yaboot.conf: line too long'
> (or
> something like that) errors; then, when I try to do the 'boot hd:9'
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:09:27PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> MOL emulates a virtual machine. So MacOS code cannot access anything
> outside of this emulated environement. The only security risk I can
> see is around the fake "drivers" used to communicate between MOL and
> MacOS. I d
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 03:02:48AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote:
>
> Agreed! They should use macbinary, or gzipped macbinary (since most people
> have an extractor capable of handling gzip).
there is only two files for bootx that even require macbinary, the
extention and the application. document
Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> I just connected my Pismo to my new employer's network. They have DHCP so I
> just started dhclient. The program told me that CONFIG_PACKET and
> CONFIG_FILTER is not set. It *is* set though. Then I had a closer look at it
> and saw that there is dhclient-2.0.x a
>
>hehehe, well what got me thinking, is mol runs with root privileges
>full time. and macos has no security whatsoever.. so does this mean
>that an errant MacOS app can screw with things on the linux side that
>would ordinarily be privileged? i would guess not, but its fun to
>think about.
>
Hi there,
I just connected my Pismo to my new employer's network. They have DHCP so I
just started dhclient. The program told me that CONFIG_PACKET and
CONFIG_FILTER is not set. It *is* set though. Then I had a closer look at it
and saw
that there is dhclient-2.0.x and dhclient-2.2.x. The dhclien
Please read the g77 manual and its references about floating point and
IEEE arithmetic conformance. It even had physicist input --
computational scientists need to understand the issues.
Please don't follow up to all these lists. I doubt debian-sparc,
where I'm reading it, cares.
Someone here recently asked what Ethan was doing for a living (seeing as he
usually replies within minutes at any time of the day) and he didn't want to
tell.
But I found out: http://bensonsworld.co.uk . Ethan, be grateful for the money
you got from me! And please stop that rental pricing bullsh
* Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-04-19 09:51 +0200:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:48:01AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
[...]
> my idea is to take the module sources from mol and put them in thier
> own package, say mol-modules-src or something. this package should
> depend on kernel-heade
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:19:40PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
> In the 0.9.57 announcement they talk about less dependency on the kernel -
> wonder if that will help for these issues? They say 'it might be necessary to
> recompile MOL from the source in certain cases' for 2.4 kernels...
intere
Ethan Benson wrote:
> i was going to look at this again to see what i could come up with.
> one really tricky problem is it seems you often MUST recompile the mol
> modules against the exact kernel source of the running kernel.
> otherwise they don't work.
>
> on my system when i upgraded to 2.2.
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:08:08PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
> Cool, thanks. But looking at sysctl.conf(5) I think it should be
> dev.mac_hid.*, shouldn't it?
it seems to work either way. i have slashes instead of dots in mine
and it seems happy.
> Dunno why I though /etc/sysctl.conf was
Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:33:19AM +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> > > I have this in a startup script to get the middle button on F11 and the
> > > right one on F12 :
> > >
> > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_emulation
> > > echo 87 > /proc/sys/dev/
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:50:34AM +0100, Nick Bailey wrote:
> Ionut Georgescu wrote:
>
> > PS command line: g77 -g -pg -o programm *.f
> > PPS gcc -v:
> > Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/alpha-linux/2.95.3/specs
> > gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (Debian release)
>
> I'm interested... I
If anyone is running XFree86 4 one the Beige G3's in anything >256
colour and >= 1024x768 would you be able to drop me a copy of your
XF86config-4 file?
I'll be buggered if I can get any decent colour / res combo that
makes it useable.
Ta.
--
Cheers,
Craige.
Ionut Georgescu wrote:
> PS command line: g77 -g -pg -o programm *.f
> PPS gcc -v:
> Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/alpha-linux/2.95.3/specs
> gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (Debian release)
I'm interested... I don't know enough FORTRAN to test this out, but I have been
seeing Scilab (w
> > Seriously: I've never had any luck with unsit or macunpack or the like.
> > .sit files are essentially useless on the Linux side.
> >
>
> Then why does bootx come packaged on the 2.2r2 CD as a .sit file? I'm
Maybe because BootX is a MacOS application, and it is generally assumed
that if you u
The purpose is to compute the following expression:
enfer= 1.3058750148074976d0
entmp = 0.093822912209640966d0
enpct = -2.2021424321973448d0
tfermi = 1.0d0/(dexp((enpct-enfer)/entmp)+1.0d0)
The problem is the following. With a small test programm, the result is
a
Okay, fixed the partition type, then ran 'ybin -C /target/etc/yaboot.conf -m
/target/etc/ofboot.b', which returned several 'yaboot.conf: line too long' (or
something like that) errors; then, when I try to do the 'boot hd:9' bit, I get:
parsing
DEFAULT CATCH!, code=70 at %SRR0: ff80b648 %SRR1
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 02:57:02AM -0500, Brian Dunnette wrote:
> Well, now I get:
>
> MAC-PARTS: specified partition is not valid can't open hd:9,\\:tbxi
> ok
>
> Any ideas?
>
> (tried running ybin -b /dev/hda9, still didn't work...)
sounds to me like you mixed up type with name when creating
Well, now I get:
MAC-PARTS: specified partition is not valid can't open hd:9,\\:tbxi
ok
Any ideas?
(tried running ybin -b /dev/hda9, still didn't work...)
Thanks,
Brian Dunnette
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 06:03:24AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 07:13:44PM -0500, Brian Dunn
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 08:26:11AM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote:
> Something that should be avoided: hanging the base staion onto a
> vertical surface with Apple's bracket. This reduced receive level by 10
> dB for me!
>
> I suppose the problem lies in the polarization of the electromagnetic
> wave
Hi all,
On 18 Apr, this message from Michel Dänzer echoed through cyberspace:
> eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"public" Nickname:"HERMES I"
> Frequency:2.442GHz Sensitivity:1/3 Mode:Managed
> Access Point: 00:40:96:38:53:3C
> Bit Rate:11Mb/s RTS thr:off Fra
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:55:26AM -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
> It's not just that you _should_ unpack BootX on the Mac side, it's that
> you have to.
No you don't. When I bought my Mac second hand, it had a _minimal_ install
of MacOS 9 on it. When I say minimal, I mean no web browser, n
> So far, so good. Closing it makes it sleep. [...]
Does anyone know if there is support for this for the tibook?
This works fine on my TiBook as long as I am in X when I put it to
sleep. Sleep on the TiBook was failing in console a while back, I
don't know if BenH has fixed it yet. Anyway
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