Re: Powerbook5,7 (G4 17") and USB 2.0 disk drive

2007-05-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 01:16:24AM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Thu, May 24 2007, at 00:27 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > I have lots of problems connecting hardware to an AluBook 5.8. For both > > USB and Firewire enclosures. > > In order to not exaggerate: At least some USB encl

Re: QZERTY keyboard on an old Ibook G3 (t angerine)

2007-05-23 Thread Jones
XKeyCaps I heard about it but I never try. I hope this would be helpful Jones 原邮件内容如下 发件人:"Lila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 日期:Thu, 24 May 2007 07:04:29 +0800 (CST) 主题:QZERTY keyboard on an old Ibook G3 (tangerine) > Hello, > Last year I installed Debian (stable) on an o

Re: Powerbook 12" 1.5 GHz, therm_adt746x, thermal issues

2007-05-23 Thread Jones
Andreas, I am having the same problem with this laptop(mine is 1.33GHz). A walk around solution will be to slow down the cpu speed. (root or using sudo) echo powersave > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor In my case this CPU speed will be halved which is 0.66Ghz. It's n

Re: Powerbook5,7 (G4 17") and USB 2.0 disk drive

2007-05-23 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, May 24 2007, at 00:27 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > I have lots of problems connecting hardware to an AluBook 5.8. For both > USB and Firewire enclosures. In order to not exaggerate: At least some USB enclosure works, provided I connect it with 2(!) connectors to the alubook, and pro

QZERTY keyboard on an old Ibook G3 (tangerine)

2007-05-23 Thread Lila
Hello, Last year I installed Debian (stable) on an old iBook tangerine, than forgot it on the closet. My biggest problem is the keybord setting. It has a qzerty keyboard (old italian) that "should" be mapped into the mac/unknown/italian/ibook (aka ibook.it) keymap. At least.. it used to be ther

Re: Powerbook5,7 (G4 17") and USB 2.0 disk drive

2007-05-23 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, May 23 2007, at 17:04 -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, 23 May 2007 22:50:45 +0200 > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The USB specs mention 0.5 A at 5V, so around 2.5W. This is not enough > > to drive a harddisk, especiall

Re: Powerbook5,7 (G4 17") and USB 2.0 disk drive

2007-05-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 05:04:43PM -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, 23 May 2007 22:50:45 +0200 > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The USB specs mention 0.5 A at 5V, so around 2.5W. This is not enough > > to drive a harddisk, espe

Powerbook 12" 1.5 GHz, therm_adt746x, thermal issues

2007-05-23 Thread Andreas Schreiner
Hi! I am experiencing heat-caused shutdowns on a PowerBook 12" 1.5 Ghz (the last 12" PowerBook model with USB Trackpad and Keyboard) when it is under heavy load and especially when the Harddisk is busy (I have replaced the standard HD with an presumably hotter running 7200rpm drive) The m

Re: Powerbook5,7 (G4 17") and USB 2.0 disk drive

2007-05-23 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 23 May 2007 22:50:45 +0200 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The USB specs mention 0.5 A at 5V, so around 2.5W. This is not enough > to drive a harddisk, especially a 3.5" one. It's a mobile (2.5") disk. > This is what makes the firew

Re: Powerbook5,7 (G4 17") and USB 2.0 disk drive

2007-05-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 04:08:23PM -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have an external USB2 disk drive enclosure with a 40GB PATA IDE disk > drive in it. It has an odd cable, with USB "A" connectors on both ends > and two connectors on the "host" s

Powerbook5,7 (G4 17") and USB 2.0 disk drive

2007-05-23 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have an external USB2 disk drive enclosure with a 40GB PATA IDE disk drive in it. It has an odd cable, with USB "A" connectors on both ends and two connectors on the "host" side. I don't know the reason for this, but in my Intel Desktop Board DG965RY

[Addendum] Re: Maximum RAM configured in kernel

2007-05-23 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, May 23 2007, at 14:32 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > [ ...] Forgot this: This is my machine: $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : 7447A, altivec supported clock : 833.333000MHz revision: 0.5 (pvr 8003 0105) bogomips: 16.57 timebase

Re: Maximum RAM configured in kernel

2007-05-23 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, May 23 2007, at 18:30 +1000, Evan Clarke wrote: [ ... ] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/boot$ uname -a > Linux bender 2.6.18-4-powerpc #1 Fri May 4 01:05:19 UTC 2007 ppc GNU/Linux > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/boot$ grep GHME config-2.6.18-4-powerpc > CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y > CONFIG_HIGHMEM_START=0xfe00

Re: Maximum RAM configured in kernel

2007-05-23 Thread Evan Clarke
On 5/21/07, Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All On Mon, May 21 2007, at 07:42 +1000, Evan Clarke wrote: > I am running a stock kernel - is HIGHMEM enabled in PPC like (as I > understand) it is in x86? I'm getting curious now ... :) ... : You can find out what's set in the kernel