Re: XEN...if ever? -- MOL on 2.6

2006-04-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 21:00 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > The author (and upstream maintainer) of MOL died about a year or so > ago. A couple of folks offered to pick it up, but they may not have > the energy and dedication that he had. Samuel Rydh died ? I though it was the debian maintainer ..

Monitor never suspends on G4 Mac Mini with Sony Flat Panel

2006-04-12 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Hi folks, I have a very straight forward Debian etch installation on a G4 Mac Mini. One issue with X (xorg) is that the monitor (a Sony flat panel, SDM S204) never seems to go into the sleep state. The screen seems to blank and all, but the monitor continues to run at full power. If I issue an

Re: XEN...if ever? -- MOL on 2.6

2006-04-12 Thread Guy Yasko
On 12.4.2006, Rick Thomas told this: > The author (and upstream maintainer) of MOL died about a year or so > ago. A couple of folks offered to pick it up, but they may not have > the energy and dedication that he had. They seem to be doing OK. 10.4 support has been there for about a year, and

Re: XEN...if ever? -- MOL on 2.6

2006-04-12 Thread Rick Thomas
The author (and upstream maintainer) of MOL died about a year or so ago. A couple of folks offered to pick it up, but they may not have the energy and dedication that he had. Also, see http://maconlinux.org/news.html which claims that "Mar 21, 2004 Mac-on-Linux 0.9.70 is out!" and lists as

Re: iBook bogomips

2006-04-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 14:47 +0200, Saladino wrote: > Hi, > Looking at my cpuinfo, i found that my bogomips rate is veeery looow. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo > processor : 0 > cpu : 7447A, altivec supported > clock : 666.666000MHz > revision: 0.5 (pvr

Re: XEN...if ever?

2006-04-12 Thread Rich Johnson
On Apr 12, 2006, at 5:02 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 16:35 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Well... MOL does it pretty well :) It's more difficult but technically possible without too much performance loss. Still, it is currently impossible to run a linux 2.6 kernel o

Re: XEN...if ever?

2006-04-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 16:35 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Well... MOL does it pretty well :) It's more difficult but technically > > possible > > without too much performance loss. > > Still, it is currently impossible to run a linux 2.6 kernel on top of MOL. Irrelevant. That's a detail of nobod

Re: XEN...if ever?

2006-04-12 Thread Rich Johnson
On Apr 12, 2006, at 10:35 AM, Sven Luther wrote:On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:34:42PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 10:02 +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 02:22:40PM +1000, Aaron Kerr wrote: I really some of this porting effort produces something that

Re: installing Debian on an oldworld Mac.

2006-04-12 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 05:48:49PM -0800, petereasthope wrote: > Mon, 6 Mar 2006 Vinai Roopcha said, > vr> BootX / Kernel / RAM Disk installer ... > > Yes, that works, up to where it searches for a *.iso. > The mini.iso is on the boot drive and also on the > target drive of the installation.

Re: pbbuttonsd time settting

2006-04-12 Thread Magnus Rosenbaum
Jeremiah Benham wrote: > I want to know if there is a way to update the date or system time to > the hardware time when waking up from suspend to disk? I use the hibernate-script package to control suspend to disk. It sets the system clock after resume. I tried it only with pbbuttons and it's scri

Re: PCMCIA to usb reader for a WiFi card

2006-04-12 Thread Andrea Lusuardi - UoVoBW
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 18:49:07 +0200 Alessandro De Zorzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > which ibook model do you have? mid 2005 > if you have a new ibook you have AirportExtreme card... and i am using it with the bcm43xx driver (perfect) Only since i got the card and i cant return it i thought why

Re: PCMCIA to usb reader for a WiFi card

2006-04-12 Thread Alessandro De Zorzi
Andrea Lusuardi - UoVoBW wrote: >Hi eveyone, >i am writing because i had somehow received a dwl-650 pcmcia wifi >adapter as a present. >My ibook has no pcmcia slots so i was wondering: is it somehow possible >to find a pcmcia to usb/firewire converter? >My idea was: i connect the ibook via usb or

PCMCIA to usb reader for a WiFi card

2006-04-12 Thread Andrea Lusuardi - UoVoBW
Hi eveyone, i am writing because i had somehow received a dwl-650 pcmcia wifi adapter as a present. My ibook has no pcmcia slots so i was wondering: is it somehow possible to find a pcmcia to usb/firewire converter? My idea was: i connect the ibook via usb or firewire to this external pcmcia reader

Re: installing Debian on an oldworld Mac.

2006-04-12 Thread petereasthope
Mon, 6 Mar 2006 Vinai Roopcha said, vr> BootX / Kernel / RAM Disk installer ... Yes, that works, up to where it searches for a *.iso. The mini.iso is on the boot drive and also on the target drive of the installation. Nevertheless the installer complains "... did not find an installer ISO i

Re: XEN...if ever?

2006-04-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:34:42PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 10:02 +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 02:22:40PM +1000, Aaron Kerr wrote: > > > I really some of this porting effort produces something that is G4 > > > friendly. > > > > First

Re: iBook bogomips

2006-04-12 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 14:47 +0200, Saladino wrote: > Hi, > Looking at my cpuinfo, i found that my bogomips rate is veeery looow. http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2006/03/msg00072.html [snip] > Its a 1,33 GHz iBook with 1GB of ram and a custom kernel, are the > numbers ok? yes > or i am

iBook bogomips

2006-04-12 Thread Saladino
Hi, Looking at my cpuinfo, i found that my bogomips rate is veeery looow. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : 7447A, altivec supported clock : 666.666000MHz revision: 0.5 (pvr 8003 0105) bogomips: 36.73 timebase: 18432000 ma

Re: XEN...if ever?

2006-04-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 10:02 +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 02:22:40PM +1000, Aaron Kerr wrote: > > I really some of this porting effort produces something that is G4 > > friendly. > > First avoid posting in Hideous Trash Makeup Language, thanks. > > Second, there is no ho

Re: XEN...if ever?

2006-04-12 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 02:22:40PM +1000, Aaron Kerr wrote: > I really some of this porting effort produces something that is G4 > friendly. First avoid posting in Hideous Trash Makeup Language, thanks. Second, there is no hope of making Xen work on the existing G4. The hypervisor support is equ