One other thought- to get an idea of real speeds you might try copying one
of your entire source trees with
cp -r dir1 dir2
Or something like that
On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 6:30 AM Riccardo Mottola
wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Brian Morris wrote:
> > % time cat huge_file_copy
> >
Try
% time cat huge_file_copy
Install smartctl to check drive health
I also have a PowerBook 1ghz which is quite a bit faster than my 1.5ghz tho
could be because the former has a bit more ram and a newer hard drive and
the latter has a defective 2nd ram slot
On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 7:27 AM Ric
is there any need to worry about non-free firmware, ie
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/archive/8.11.0+nonfree/powerpc/iso-cd/
(only the net install image is available).
possibility of I might install on a 2002 g4 tower
On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 1:47 PM Ric
links2 is my fav minimalist browser. Supports pictures and basic formatting,
very clean. Also, a hint, often prefixing a website name with "m." will give
you a mobile version which loads faster to bookmark for later
Have benefitted from PowerPC Debian (also netBSD) : emacs (for both terminal
i
You are running unstable, just wait and you will see something critical
break.
Good luck.
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Mandrantosoa 'Ndrianiaina wrote:
> I'm on wheezy/sid on a PowerBook G4 15" 1.67/1.5GHz for everyday use.
>
> Everything does work correctly but the grahic card has some
> is
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:51 PM, John Ames wrote:
> On 10/6/11, Brian Morris wrote:
> > if you get the 15", make sure it has the full RAM in case you want it
> > someday. I have one with the common defect of the bad 2nd slot.
> Oh, naturally. I had both a 1GB DDR stick (
if you get the 15", make sure it has the full RAM in case you want it
someday. I have one with the common defect of the bad 2nd slot.
mine is 1.5 ghz early '05, its running LXDE stable well enough, faster than
OSX leopard. My main gripe besides the RAM issue is the hard drive
replacement is diffic
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 12:24 AM, David Lowe wrote:
> On 13 Aug, 2011, at 6:55 PM, Brian Morris wrote:
>
> >?!? I didn't think trackpads from this era were able to recognize
> multiple fingers.
> >
> > Oh, wait which exact model do you have ? mine is earl
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:34 PM, David Lowe wrote:
> On 11 Aug, 2011, at 8:17 PM, Brian Morris wrote:
>
> > I have a g4 powerbook with debian and I can send you the configurations
> file /etc/xorg.conf (tomorrow, when I have the computer) or you can find it
> yoursel
I have a g4 powerbook with debian and I can send you the configurations file
/etc/xorg.conf (tomorrow, when I have the computer) or you can find it
yourself by searching web.
If you want it. What it does is force you to use the button for clicking.
However what gave me some adjustment challenges:
What happened to Squeeze ? = the current *stable* version.
version of udev in Squeeze is 1.64 :
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/udev
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:38 PM, C-IT wrote:
> Hi Risto,
>
> Many thanks for your help.
>
> # dpkg -l udev
>
> dpkg not found on install CD environment, who
I believe perhaps the greatest factor is are new products being made and
expected in the near future.
one I know about is the new NASA/GM Robonaut2 just arrived at the ISS uses
34 powerpc cpus.
things in recent history included
75% of vehicles on the road using ppc processors,
many NASA deep spac
I have had libfreevec (clibrary replacement) installed on my g4 powerbook
for several years with no problems, upgrading in place from etch to lenny to
squeeze. but I have not tried to build apps against it.
gcc has very good auto-vectoring since 4.3 or 4.4 so you don't need to hand
code. Some limi
I have a Powerbook 5,6 (1.5/1.67 Ghz early '05), where i just installed
Debian but Xorg is not even starting at this point, crashes immediately. I
am curious about Xorg identifies the graphics card as a 9600 when in fact it
is a 9700.
Have you edited your xorg.conf and if so could you send it to
been put into that ?
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Gary Driggs wrote:
> On Dec 18, 2010, at 5:46 PM, Brian Morris wrote:
>
> > My main gripe as I have said before here is that there are no G4-Altivec
> optimized binary packages Debian based to be found anywhere.
>
> I was
Ubuntu although "community supported" works well. At least, I have installed
10.0LTS on a couple ancient G3 powermacs with LXDE desktop from server
install cd. The reason I did is because wifi support was broke on the
laptop in Debian Lenny but worked in Ubuntu. I know Ubuntu is sort of the
consum
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Thomas Carlson wrote:
> I now have a functioning Sid installation on my PowerMac G4 (digital
> audio). Thanks for the help.
>
> As to the sound problem... it's still there.The speakers don't work.
> When I open Alsamixer in a terminal I'm still not able to un
On 10/5/10, Thibaut VARÈNE wrote:
>
> Are you a Gentoo user? ;^P
>
No because I do not have the steady internet needed and besides I
would wish to do custom build as a group. But I know what you mean
Gentoo lets you auto build everything yourself from scratch.
Its a pain besides that's why I pref
On 10/5/10, Gary Driggs wrote:
> On Oct 5, 2010, at 5:59 AM, Wartan Hachaturow wrote:
>
>> I don't see how this is the reason for /bin/ls being compiled in 64-bit.
>
> True but Apache, MySQL, OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice, icecat & other
> browsers, as well as several other apps would benefit from
On 10/4/10, Wartan Hachaturow wrote:
>
>
> The same reasoning as before applies -- why would you want to do this?
> What are the benefits compared to multiarch ppc32/ppc64?
>
If you are using double precision floating point, the speed of a
program compiled 32bit on a 64bit machine is much much slo
There was an interesting article in the print version of the San
Francisco Chronicle a few days back, all about Freescale.
Some points interesting perhaps :
They have recovered about 1/2 of $15Billion debt, which the article
said was due to slowdown in auto industry and slow recovery. Just
gives
what exactly is your application, may I ask ?
remember that you are free to take what you want and to customize what
you want, for instance you can take just the core system from debian
at least and wouldn't that help you versus putting together your own
custom distro from kernel.org gnu.org or s
Isn't parted now on the netinstall debian cd ?
try checking advanced install, then load optional parted, then skip
the rest of the install including partitioner just go into the shell
option at the main menu, you should have parted there.
I used parted a lot and gparted once only when I had to bec
I just was trying Ubuntu server ppc for an old g3 -- the Gnome
Desktop default was way too slow, but I found these LXDE packages and
they worked good so I put them on my g4 powerbook too. Wow, great !
Gnome is so slow !
Debian has them too (that's what the g4 is running, the only reason I
used u
I think it may depend on what model you have. at some time there was a
switch from pmud to pbbutonsd as the power management daemon, maybe
2003 ??
On 6/19/10, Jeroen Diederen wrote:
>
> Does anyone know how to get a battery status applet in the panel? I am in
> Squeeze / LXDE and I checked that k
p.s. sorry that figure was from osX Tiger. I haven't finished the
comparison on current unstable yet.
On 4/1/10, Brian Morris wrote:
> On 3/31/10, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 17:21 -0700, Brian Morris wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Aris
On 3/31/10, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 17:21 -0700, Brian Morris wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Aris Monazteriaz wrote:
>> > How usable is Debian on PowerBook G4? Can I install programs right away
>> > or
>> > I have to compil
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Aris Monazteriaz wrote:
> How usable is Debian on PowerBook G4? Can I install programs right away or
> I have to compile them myself? Can I install Firefox with Flash support?
> etc..
>
You don't have to but if you get the compiler flags right for your cpu
optimiz
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
>
> This bug is still present in the "Thu Jan 14 16:08:46 UTC 2010"
> businesscard CD downloaded from
>
>
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/
>
> So far as I can tell, this bug has not been look
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From: Brian Morris
Date: Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: Installing on a firewire drive.
To: "Frank J. R. Hanstick"
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Frank J. R. Hanstick wrote:
> Hello,
>I have a PPC Quicksilver runn
On 12/19/09, Thomas Carlson wrote:
> I have given up on getting the sound card working as it will just be a
> development machine anyway. Any suggestions for a good development
> environment other than the standard GNU/GCC compiler tools collection?
>
>
Perl.
Lisp (lots of choices here, some ar
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Stephane Louise
> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Brian Morris wrote:
>
>> Hey I just did an update today at the console, and
>> starting up the window system after, the Xserver hangs.
>>
>>
>>
>> I can try reconfigu
Hey I just did an update today at the console, and
starting up the window system after, the Xserver hangs.
There is a cursor but no menu action and no out via function keys,
plus the cursor doesn't move anyway, so I had no choice other than
a hard reset restart (Clover-Option-Power keys).
I can t
one other idea (sorry)
Debian is not providing an altivec optimized version. If you want that you
have to go with Gentoo. If you were building cpu optimized from the ground
up with the libaltivec and perhaps the c++ altivec libraries (that require
translation for the changed library calls to all th
I think that you should start out with something of the sub-netbook type.
These are the next generation and coming up very soon. For a home computer
you need at least dual core and at those speeds it will need a very low
price and small footprint.
If you could sneak in on the sub-net quick perhaps
Might be the cpu. Mine has a 250mhz 604ev that came out of a '97 Power
Computing Tower. I'm pretty sure it was a 2.6.18 I booted, as I remember all
that pain around the 2.6.8 on my 3400 'book and booting the 2.6.15 from
ubuntu and running etch on that until 18 and 20 where the RAM disk still
wouldn
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From: Brian Morris
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 19:27:51 -0700
Subject: Re: view flash website
To: the grv
On 9/2/09, the grv wrote:
> Hi everybody. Sorry for my bad english.
> Oh yes, finally i do it. I setting up my debian-box into my powerbook. I&#x
hi,
I am having trouble to get an installer going on a powerbook g3
Wallstreet II with an external pcmcia wifi card. At boot I get a
pageful or errors from the loading of pc card services but the boot
continues and then hangs at the line loading SCSI mesh.
I have tried Lenny and also Sid.
I have
hi, i have build parrot and pugs this weekend from the CPAN tarballs on my
550mhz ppc debian etch system
i used no other upstream sources than CPAN. although there were some
hassles getting the modules all downloaded and install that needed for the perl5
support part, the debian packages provided
On 10/23/06, Simon Vallet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
> On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 22:00 -0700, Brian Morris wrote:
>
> > i would be more willing to try building my own kernel if i knew
> > better what i could take out (config=n). my only guess that quik
> > wil
On 10/23/06, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 03:01 -0700, Brian Morris wrote:
> well i tried again, still same result as ever trying
> to boot 2.6.18 on my old powerbook.
>
> synopsis: bootx hangs after first line "welcome to linu
well i tried again, still same result as ever trying
to boot 2.6.18 on my old powerbook.
synopsis: bootx hangs after first line "welcome to linux",
quik goes all the way to VFS: ... unknown block(0,0)
(as if there is no initramfs). no floppy drive, so can't
try miboot.
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hi, this sort of an addendum to my earlier posting today.
one other problem i had more or less given up on was
trying to print through the old fashioned serial port.
i set up cups and all that and also on my new world where
it worked fine, in both debian and osx.
but on the old world i get two e
you said thanks *it* worked, but
he gave you two alternatives. which was it ?
i am just asking because i am curious about
using the installer disk as a rescue CD.
i tried that but i used a gentoo live
cd -2.6 kernel- which gives one
much more like a real system.but anyway i had to
copy/resize par
hi - i am getting pretty worn out myself
putting Debian on a new world mac for first
time lately, a G4. i have thinking now it
it is a hassle.
i think the installer is over automated and
that increase bug problems. for instance.
a) the partitioning scheme and type i was
given were not much at a
hi
i have not yet done kernel build in testing/Debian,
but am thinking / studying possibility.
i see in your configs several references to older
machines i have experience with - like
1996-97 models. i think you might clean
this stuff out. references to 6xx means
G1/G2 for example, absolete wor
this mac is old enough that it could be booted
from one of the old DiskTools floppies from
Apple, say 8.0 -- i believe these are free
for download. although my computers complain,
they will run off these.
(actually this one might boot
the entire free version of macos7
i wonder this is like the
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