Re: iBook and playing DVDs

2002-05-21 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > [Albert Cahalan] >> ATI wouldn't likely recommend uncached/guarded or not using >> the hardware IDCT either though. > > uncached/guarded is more or less mandatory on AGP as the HW isn't > cache coherent, though we would probably get better throughput > using cached mapp

Re: Netbooting

2002-05-21 Thread Colin Walters
[ Still on this list, but I've been busy with other stuff ] On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 18:23, Russell Hires wrote: > Hello, this in reference to something on the debian-powerpc list that you did > in October 2001. I've successfully netbooted, but now I want to mount my / > directory (partition? I've

Netbooting

2002-05-21 Thread Russell Hires
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, this in reference to something on the debian-powerpc list that you did in October 2001. I've successfully netbooted, but now I want to mount my / directory (partition? I've only got / and /usr as partitions) from the server to the client so t

Re: How can I install glibc 2.2.4 or greater

2002-05-21 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 12:44:23AM +0200, Roland Wegmann wrote: > Hello > > I will install a non-Debian software which requires glibc 2.2.4 or greater. > How can I find out if glibc is already installed. And if not, how can I > install glibc 2.2.4? I tried "apt-get install glibc" but it did not

Re: How can I install glibc 2.2.4 or greater

2002-05-21 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 22 2002, Roland Wegmann wrote: > I will install a non-Debian software which requires glibc 2.2.4 or greater. > How can I find out if glibc is already installed. And if not, how can I > install glibc 2.2.4? I tried "apt-get install glibc" but it did not work > (error message). Yes

Re: Using PPC asm (from Linux kernel) in xine

2002-05-21 Thread Michel Lanners
On 20 May, this message from Rogério Brito echoed through cyberspace: > Anyway, one of the first things I see is that xine uses a > function called xine_fast_memcpy, which is an alternative > memcpy function possibly written in assembly (if available) or > the standard glib

How can I install glibc 2.2.4 or greater

2002-05-21 Thread Roland Wegmann
Hello I will install a non-Debian software which requires glibc 2.2.4 or greater. How can I find out if glibc is already installed. And if not, how can I install glibc 2.2.4? I tried "apt-get install glibc" but it did not work (error message). Thanks for helping, Roland [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

RE: slows to a crawl when hard drive is in use

2002-05-21 Thread Jeramy B. Smith
Alright, the unmaskirq thing made a world of difference here. Before when i would tar zxvf a large 50+ MB file, the system would become _extremely_ unresponsive. Now the machine doesn't hiccup. -jeramy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: slows to a crawl when hard drive is in use

2002-05-21 Thread William R Sowerbutts
I've also been running my iBook with interrupts unmasked for many months without problems. Is it possible to get UDMA66 working on the iBook? My version of the kernel configures the drive for UDMA33. I did try forcing it to UDMA66 using hdparm, and it utterly toasted the filesystem ;( I doubt it

Re: slows to a crawl when hard drive is in use

2002-05-21 Thread Will Aoki
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 06:15:40PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: > Egidio Corsini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Have you tryed to tune some parameters with hdparm? > > Mine looks like that > > /dev/hda: > > multcount= 0 (off) > > I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit) > > unmaskirq= 0

Re: slows to a crawl when hard drive is in use

2002-05-21 Thread David N. Welton
Egidio Corsini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you tryed to tune some parameters with hdparm? > Mine looks like that > /dev/hda: > multcount= 0 (off) > I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit) > unmaskirq= 0 (off) > using_dma= 1 (on) > keepsettings = 0 (off) > nowerr = 0

Re: Partimage CD boots on my PowerMac while Debian don't

2002-05-21 Thread Otto Wyss
> > How do I build a powerpc test image with the blessed folder in the root > > on a Debian i386. > > I think that could be the problem. You mean yaboot is within > /install/powermac, right? Not just inside /install? I think that would > definitely be a problem. When I wanted to change systems in

Re: slows to a crawl when hard drive is in use

2002-05-21 Thread Egidio Corsini
Have you tryed to tune some parameters with hdparm? Mine looks like that /dev/hda: multcount= 0 (off) I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq= 0 (off) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) nowerr = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 8 (on) geomet

Apple DOS Compatibility card

2002-05-21 Thread svallet
Hi, (please Cc: me as I am not on the list) I recently found an old DOS-Compatibility card from Apple, which I took away as it didn't work with MacOS>8 I was wondering if I could use it under Linux - I run potato standard with kernel 2.2.19 on a 6400 Performa. Best Regards, Simon -- Simon Vall

Re: XFree86 on a Wallstreet PBG3

2002-05-21 Thread Koos van den Hout
Quoting rw who wrote on Mon, May 20, 2002 at 02:19:22PM +0200: > - Args: "video=atyfb:mode:14,cmode:32,mclk:70 hda=autotune" I only have 'video=atyfb'. I attached the configfile which works for me. Koos -- Koos van den Hout, PGP keyid RSA/1024 0xCA8

Re: [xine-user] Using PPC asm (from Linux kernel) in xine

2002-05-21 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 21 2002, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyway, one of the first things I see is that xine uses a > > function called xine_fast_memcpy, which is an alternative > > memcpy function possibly written in assembly (if available) or > > the sta

Re: [xine-user] Using PPC asm (from Linux kernel) in xine

2002-05-21 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, one of the first things I see is that xine uses a > function called xine_fast_memcpy, which is an alternative > memcpy function possibly written in assembly (if available) or > the standard glibc, if no other version i

slows to a crawl when hard drive is in use

2002-05-21 Thread David N. Welton
I never saw an answer for this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2002/debian-powerpc-200203/msg00202.html On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 00:01, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 20:57, David N. Welton wrote: > > > > My tibook becomes almost unusable interactively when there is a lo

Re: 700MHz iBook: ATI Mobility Radeon 7500?

2002-05-21 Thread benh
>AFAIK it supports both chips, but I think the panel size is still >hack^K^Krdcoded to 1152x768 on powerpc... Should be properly probed from OF EDID with my latest kernels. Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: iBook and playing DVDs

2002-05-21 Thread benh
>> ATI doesn't recommend that. The refresh rate of the screen is >> high enough that if you display from AGP memory, you'll cause >> a hell lot more throughput on the bus than with a single blit. > >ATI wouldn't likely recommend uncached/guarded or not using >the hardware IDCT either though. uncac

RE: Regardez la télé avec votre chat ! Gagnez un home cinéma sur www.whiskas.fr

2002-05-21 Thread KIRMAIER
-- Julien KIRMAIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -Original Message- > From: WHISKAS [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 2:01 PM > To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > Subject: Regardez la télé avec votre chat ! Gagnez un home cinéma sur > www.whiskas.fr > > oktomail a

Re: Older BenH kernels (2.4.18?)

2002-05-21 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Will Cicola writes: > Is there a place where I can get source for older BenH kernels > (specifically 2.4.18)? The Debian package kernel-patch-benh has old BenH kernels since 2.4.10. You just need the appropriate vanilla kernel source. > The reason I ask is that MOL doesn't seem to want to