Re: Responsiveness issue(s)

2007-04-11 Thread Børge Holen
On Wednesday 11 April 2007 18:57, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 18:42 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > You need a special star-shaped screw-drivers, > > A friend of mine needed T4 or T6 or something (the number is the size), > you can pick them up for like a euro a piece in many stores.

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Re: Responsiveness issue(s)

2007-04-11 Thread Ruben
At Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:42:00 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > been there, done that, on a last-gen tibook, and it is nowhere as adventursome > as you would think. > > You need a special star-shaped screw-drivers, and there is some nice > instruction manual on apple's web site. Just agreeing. I re

Re: Responsiveness issue(s)

2007-04-11 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:50:11 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > been there, done that, on a last-gen tibook, and it is nowhere as > adventursome as you would think. Maybe I'm not as brave with hardware as I'm with software (i.e. running experimental) ;) I am anyway thinking about buying a new laptop t

Re: Responsiveness issue(s)

2007-04-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 01:00:55PM -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > Jack Malmostoso wrote: > >On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:50:30 +0200, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > > > >>I > >>have a 7200RPM 100GB drive in my Thinkpad that I'd prefer to use in the > >>PowerBook if it would help speed it up... > > > >It sure wo

Re: Responsiveness issue(s)

2007-04-11 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Jack Malmostoso wrote: On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:50:30 +0200, Andrew J. Barr wrote: I have a 7200RPM 100GB drive in my Thinkpad that I'd prefer to use in the PowerBook if it would help speed it up... It sure would. But be prepared to quite an adventure if you want to replace your PB's HD on you

Re: Responsiveness issue(s)

2007-04-11 Thread Johannes Berg
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 18:42 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > You need a special star-shaped screw-drivers, A friend of mine needed T4 or T6 or something (the number is the size), you can pick them up for like a euro a piece in many stores. ifixit.com has instructions with pictures and required tools

Re: Responsiveness issue(s)

2007-04-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 04:02:16PM +, Jack Malmostoso wrote: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:50:30 +0200, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > > > I > > have a 7200RPM 100GB drive in my Thinkpad that I'd prefer to use in the > > PowerBook if it would help speed it up... > > It sure would. But be prepared to quit

Re: Responsiveness issue(s)

2007-04-11 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:50:30 +0200, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > I > have a 7200RPM 100GB drive in my Thinkpad that I'd prefer to use in the > PowerBook if it would help speed it up... It sure would. But be prepared to quite an adventure if you want to replace your PB's HD on your own. Unfortunately

Re: Responsiveness issue(s)

2007-04-11 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Jack Malmostoso wrote: As for the rest, check that DMA is activated on your hard drive. Which is extremely slow anyway... I have an iBook so I know what I'm talking about :) What is wrong with the hard disk? Is it the IDE controller or the hard disk itself? I have a couple of laptop (2.5") ha

Re: Responsiveness issue(s)

2007-04-11 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Jack Malmostoso wrote: On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:20:09 +0200, Andrew J. Barr wrote: The kernel is a custom 2.6.20.6 kernel with preemption installed (I note that because it's not in the default powerpc kernel from etch) Preemption on PPC is (was?) a bad bad idea. Try using the Debian stock kerne

beige PowerMac G3 freezes starting X with etch

2007-04-11 Thread Ralf Saalmüller
Hello at PowerPC-debian.org Yesterday I started updating an PowerMac G3 from sarge to etch by the book. I printed out the upgrade notes and followed them by checking all things. Took quit a while. There was wdm installed and xfce but I choose to install the GNOME Desktop. Everything went fi