On Mon, Jan 11, Peter Saisanas wrote:
> Am i doing something wrong, or is there simply no extra performance to be
> had just by playing with the cflags and recompiling glibc?
Just ask yourself: How many months per year does your cpu execute code
from glibc instead of kernel or app code? If you ca
I have a spare PowerBook G3 Pismo to donate.
If anyone wants to receive it for free, contact me offlist.
(Also this delivery is for free!)
Thanks.
Specs:
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_g3/specs/powerbook_g3_400_fw.html
14.1 TFT / 400 MHz / 192MB / 40GB / 8MB Video / CD / 2x Firew
I have a spare EFIKA board to donate.
If anyone wants to receive it for free, contact me offlist.
Thanks.
Specs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efika
http://genesi.company/products/efika/5200b
No power supply
No graphics card
serial cable
56K USB to serial converter (if I find it in time)
Olaf
I have a spare OldWorld PowerBook G3 to donate.
If anyone wants to receive it for free, contact me offlist.
Thanks.
Specs:
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_g3/specs/powerbook_g3_233.html
Family number: M4753
Macintosh PowerBook G3 Series
14.1 TFT / 233MHz-512K / 192MB / 40GB / 4MB
On Tue, Jul 06, Szigetvári János wrote:
> Total memory = 768MB; using 2048kB for hash table (at c040)
> Linux version 2.6.18-6-prep (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-18)
> (da...@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian
> 4.1.18PReP architecture
> time_init: decrementer frequency = 28
Hello,
there are 4 systems waiting for a new owner.
They are located in Nuremberg, Germany.
CHRP: IBM RS6000 B50 7046-B50, cpu 604, 1GB RAM, 2x 9GB disks
PReP: IBM RS6000 43P 7248-132, cpu 604, 32M RAM, 1x 9GB disk
PReP: Motorola MTX, cpu 604, 128M RAM, 2x 9GB disks
PReP: Motorola PowerStack, cp
On Wed, Sep 27, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> Colin: Is there anything already decided in how the future keyboard
> layouts on xkb-data, for Apple machines, will look like: PC-style, or
> Apple style, or options for both of them?
macintosh means and does MacOS mapping. I made it that way back in 200
On Wed, Feb 15, Paul Mackeras wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
>
> > Ok, does not using NTP fixes it ?
>
> Try this patch. With this the values from gettimeofday() or the VDSO
> should stay exactly in sync with xtime even if NTP is adjusting the
> clock.
>
> This patch still has quite
On Mon, Feb 13, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 12, Olaf Hering wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Feb 12, Roger Leigh wrote:
> >
> > > In both these cases, the chrony NTP daemon is running, if that might
> > > be a problem.
> >
> > I dont run Debian, but
On Sun, Feb 12, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 12, Roger Leigh wrote:
>
> > In both these cases, the chrony NTP daemon is running, if that might
> > be a problem.
>
> I dont run Debian, but:
>
> My G4/466 has the hwclock at 1970 for some reason. The early b
On Sun, Feb 12, Roger Leigh wrote:
> In both these cases, the chrony NTP daemon is running, if that might
> be a problem.
I dont run Debian, but:
My G4/466 has the hwclock at 1970 for some reason. The early bootscripts
call klogd, which calls nanosleep. This syscall takes 3 hours to complete.
On Sat, Apr 24, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 05:02:51PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Hi Sven !
> >
> > The current CDs won't boot a G5 with the -power4 option. The problem
> > is that the kernel contains legacy drivers (8250 serial, etc...) that
> > are fine for
On Sat, Apr 24, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 05:02:51PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Hi Sven !
> >
> > The current CDs won't boot a G5 with the -power4 option. The problem
> > is that the kernel contains legacy drivers (8250 serial, etc...) that
> > are fine for
On Mon, Dec 08, Thorsten Sauter wrote:
> But I can play with the cdrom a little bit.
just put the zImage.*chrk-rs6k on an ordinary iso and do a
boot cdrom:filename mykerneloptions
no need for yaboot.
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sUse lINUX ag, nÜRNBERG
On Tue, Aug 26, Frank Murphy wrote:
> On Monday 25 August 2003 8:59, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > The non us and de maps need review, but should almost match what MacOS
> > does.
>
> So I looked at the extensive diffs you sent, and I have a couple of
> questions.
> The
On Mon, Aug 25, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 11:06, Frank Murphy wrote:
> >
> > --- rules/xfree86.dpkg-dist 2003-02-26 09:39:56.0 +0100
> > +++ rules/xfree86 2003-08-24 11:54:28.0 +0200
> > @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
> >pc105nodeadkeys =
begin On Wed, Jul 10, Olaf Hering wrote:
> begin On Tue, Jul 09, Tom Rini wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 03:26:37PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> >
> > > But it seems zImage.initrd.prep is broken since at least 2.4.16:
> >
> > Well, with 2.4.19-rc1
begin On Tue, Jul 09, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 03:26:37PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
>
> > But it seems zImage.initrd.prep is broken since at least 2.4.16:
>
> Well, with 2.4.19-rc1 (from linuxppc_2_4, common_config + the initrd
> from http://pengui
begin On Wed, Jul 03, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 09:02:32PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jul 01, Tom Rini wrote:
> >
> > > Lemme know if you still have the correct ammount of memory reported
> > > still. Thanks.
> >
> >
On Sun, Jun 30, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> >>NIP; c0110e7c<=
>
> >>GPR1; dcae9d00 <_end+1c857584/20db4884>
> >>GPR2; dcae8000 <_end+1c855884/20db4884>
> >>GPR3; ddf66bc0 <_end+1dcd/20db4884>
> >>GPR4; dcae9d28 <_end+1c8575ac/20db4884>
> >>GPR5; dcae9d28 <_end+1c8575ac/20db4884>
> >>GPR6; d
On Tue, Nov 27, Mats Aigner wrote:
> If I could put the ATY at /dev/fb0 and the OF at /dev/fb1 I could
> then choose the right framebuffer depending on the circumstances. Is
> this possible? Or does anyone have any other suggestions?
You could run X to workaround this know aty128fb console bug
On Wed, Oct 31, John Goerzen wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > As far as I understand it clock from powerpc-utils is obsolete and you can
> > use hwclock on all machines (including PReP machines?). Does that mean you
> > will remove the clock program from powerpc-utils?
>
>
On Tue, Oct 23, Benny Siegert wrote:
> >>> Olaf Hering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 22.10.2001 22.01 Uhr >>>
> > On Fri, Oct 19, Benny Siegert wrote:
> >
> >> Okay, now I have got some boot messages, but they do not look very
> >> good :-( (
On Fri, Oct 19, Benny Siegert wrote:
> >>> Shawn D'Alimonte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 16.10.2001 13.55 Uhr >>>
> On Tuesday 16 October 2001 04:44, Benny Siegert wrote:
> > > Does anyone know what could cause this problem? I can supply a
> > > complete boot log if you wish.
> >
> > Not sure about the R
On Fri, Aug 24, Jens Kutilek wrote:
> > Do you have any numbers on the lcd display on the front of the B50?
>
> When Linux has booted to the login prompt, the display constantly
> displays "". What could that mean? This is only with kernel 2.4,
> when using kernel 2.2 the display was off afte
On Sat, Aug 18, crisbill wrote:
> I'm trying to install Debian on a G4 using the current linux and
> root.bin from Woody (3.07-2001-07-11). I've placed these files on my Mac
> harddisk, along with yaboot 1.2.3.
> Booting gets stuck, with these kernel messages:
> ---
On Mon, Aug 13, Ehtan Benson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 09:36:16AM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 12, Ehtan Benson wrote:
> >
> > > netbooting depends on OpenFirmware being sane. that is not true of
> > > any OldWorld machine.
> >
On Sun, Aug 12, Ehtan Benson wrote:
> netbooting depends on OpenFirmware being sane. that is not true of
> any OldWorld machine.
What problems do you see?
Gruss Olaf
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On Thu, Aug 02, Leandro Noferini wrote:
> Ciao a tutti,
>
> I would like to use a kernel like the subject of this message compled
> from sources taken from rsync but I get always anything! :-(
>
> Can somebody send me a .config for a machine like mine?
>
> Now I am using a:
>
> [mleandro: ]$
On Wed, Aug 01, Ivan wrote:
> Hi all,
> I got this doing 'rm -rf sys.img'. sys.img was a file of 1400MB in a hfs
> partition. the file was deleted correctly at the second try. No error
> removing a 800MB file. Someone ( like benh ) is interested in? )
>
> kernel BUG at /usr/src/linux-benh/inclu
On Tue, Jul 31, John Hughes wrote:
> Hello all, thought I would drop this here for those that know what to do with
> it.
>
> Just got a 512mb memmory module, installed it, and booted. Well, everything
> seems to be okexcept that linux only sees 510mb total...when it should be
> 640mb. If s
On Mon, Jul 30, Stefan Haller wrote:
> > this also eliminates the need to maintain separate keymaps for
> > standard keyboards, no more need for a mac version and a i386 version
> > and a sparc version etc etc.
>
> Ethan, you keep ignoring the fact that this is only true for US
> keyboards. We
On Wed, Jul 18, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Is offb working in 2.4.6-benh? I can't get it to work, I get the little
> bit of BootX text and then it hangs before putting the console up on the
> fb. This is booting from BootX (or is that broken in 2.4.x?).
what is the last line? "
On Tue, Jul 10, Adam Lazur wrote:
> return notifier c0280d8c
> cpu 0: vector: 300 at pc = c0007894, lr = c0007894, msr = b032, sp = c76d9d90
> [c76d9ce0]
> dar = 358, dsisr = 4000
> current = c76d8000, pid = 283, comm = pmud
> 0:mon>
can you try to disable altivec in your kernel?
c0007820 T
On Mon, Jul 09, Eric Deveaud wrote:
> I just finished to rsync and compile benh kernel for my pismo(thank's
> ben for your work) and I notice a problem wille using gpm, with my usb
> external 3
> buttons mouse
> as I spend a lot of time in console mode, I eavily use gpm.
> with 2.2.19 everything
On Mon, Jul 09, Russell Hires wrote:
> Then, nothing. I still hear it just spinning...I now have two "dd" processes
> that I can't kill. :-)
Use a different kernel, loop was broken. 2.4.6 should be fine.
http://www.penguinppc.org/~benh/
Gruss Olaf
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On Thu, Jun 07, Rahul Jain wrote:
> 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev
> 08)
Does that card work?
Gruss Olaf
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On Thu, Jun 07, Ethan Benson wrote:
> what about woody's libc? its 2.2.3 right now so if this fix is merged
> mainline it should be fine, if not please file a bug asking for the
> patch to be applied to the bts, whenever it comes back.
the fix is a hack and called `rm -vf`
ppc64 will obsolete
On Mon, May 21, Craig S. Cottingham wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> I tried to set the initial video mode on my 7200/90 in quik.conf:
platinumfb can not change the video mode because it never parses the
video= line. It might be fixed in 2.4.+.
Use fbset instead.
Neve
On Thu, May 17, Georg Koss wrote:
> If this topic spams the list I apologize - and please mail me private.
>
> As the ISDN-cards mentioned in kernels config seem not to be available for a
> G4, as my dealer told me, I wonder if there is any hardware solution running
> ISDN with debian/G4. Proba
On Mon, Jan 08, Borut Mrak wrote:
>
> The kernel from the current boot-floppies (current = what's in woody) would
> load, the last message that was printed was something about reading the
> OpenFirmware tree...
>
> I also tried the kernel from
> ftp.linuxppc.org/linuxppc-haloween/software/kernel
On Sun, Jan 07, Nick Henderson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Over the weekend I have been installing unstable on my
> Wallstreet. Everything works up until I want to start
> up X 4.0.2. When I "startx" or when xdm starts, the
> computer crashes and I have to do a hard reboot. The
> screen turns black, b
On Sat, Dec 16, Olaf Hering wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 15, Jason Haas wrote:
>
> > Everyone: please let me know of what your experiences with the ADC.
>
> It works. 22" patch is coming soon (days)
>
> video=aty128fb:vmode:14
> video=aty128fb:vmode:22
You can
On Tue, Dec 05, Phil Fraering wrote:
> When I try to reboot, I eventually get the following messages:
There is proably something like with CMD646.
> And that's when it freezes.
>
> BTW, the buffer history (shift-pageup) still works.
pipe this through babelfish
(for short: you need a kernel tha
On Thu, Nov 23, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> The init scripts of all distributions but SuSE handle this just fine
> (mount -n). At least SuSE seems to mount the root fs rw from the start,
> which causes all sorts of pain if you want to boot into a RedHat system
> using the SuSE rescue disk. No idea ho
On Wed, Nov 22, jon ewing wrote:
> At 22/11/2000, 11:34, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> >jon ewing wrote:
> >
> > > I can get a 1600x1200 console when I first boot my G4 - after starting X
> > > I'm no longer able to get back to the console and the only solution is to
> > > switch the power off at the mai
On Wed, Nov 22, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> jon ewing wrote:
>
> > I can get a 1600x1200 console when I first boot my G4 - after starting X
> > I'm no longer able to get back to the console and the only solution is to
> > switch the power off at the mains. I guess thats not normal, right?
>
> Use fbs
On Tue, Nov 21, jon ewing wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Just wondered if anyone has got XFree86 4.01 running at 1600x1200 on a G4
> with an ATI Rage Pro 128 (the card it was supplied with) and an Apple
> Studio 17" monitor?
>
> If so, how? :-)
I didn't try it. But it should work with the correct mod
On Mon, Nov 20, Michael Flaig wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm searching for a german X11-keymap that works fine on the Powerbook
> Firewire.
> Has anybody a @ with default keymap?
>
> I don't understand the X11 keymap concept ...
>
> Has anybody working keymaps ?
> or correct config ?
ftp.suse.com/pu
On Fri, Nov 17, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > the application you're looking for is called "anXious". it will help you
> > > configuring your XF86Config settings, but it will not select Xpmac as
> > > default xserver, so you might have to do this manually.
> >
> > As Xpmac doesn't use any configur
On Thu, Nov 09, Tom Rini wrote:
> I thought you told me that. :)
Hmm, can't remember.
But it can not work. Some guys have it running, but the tools doesnt
work yet.
Gruss Olaf
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On Thu, Nov 09, Tom Rini wrote:
> [*] SuSE/PPC will be shipping with reiserfs, so they just might be stuck into
Tell me more about that :=)
Gruss Olaf
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On Wed, Nov 01, Ethan Benson wrote:
> you also have to grab libiberty.h from the binutils source package (i
> think might be wrong package..) for some reason its not present on
> potato systems at least...
Its not needed, at least for the builds until version 0.9.50.
I sent a patch to Samuel two
On Sun, Oct 29, Eric Reischer wrote:
> Anybody seen this before?
Yes, try yaboot. That might work, but I gave up finally.
There is a short netboot howto on penguinppc.org
Gruss Olaf
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On Wed, Oct 25, lorenzo de vito wrote:
> I have many problems with installation of Suse 6.4 PPC, I have a Mac G3
> (B&W) with 256 MB Ram, 15 GB HD Maxtor with following partitions:
>
> 1) 30 MB /boot
> 2) 1000 MB /
> 3) 4000 MB /home
> 4) 128 MB SWAP
> 5) 30 MB HFS (Yaboot)
> 6) residual spaceHFS
On Thu, Oct 12, Hadess wrote:
> PS: Olaf, doesn't work with kernel argument "video=ofonly" or "video=offb",
> thanks anyway
I know Ben is busy somehow, but better send him the iBook ;)
Our UK people have XF4 running even with video=ofonly, so it seems no to
be impossible. But I have no access t
On Tue, Oct 10, Hadess wrote:
> The only error:
> (II) r128(0): initializing int10
> (EE) r128(0): Cannot read V_BIOS (4)
>
> > I just use video=aty128fb: so the problem must be with the iBook's new
> > Mobility chip.
>
> Doesn't work. I don't mind Frame-buffer not being accelerated, but I (wo
On Sat, Oct 07, Bernd Kulawik wrote:
> Does anybody know why it is so horrible to use Linux on that G3 at all or
> had the same problems and fixed them?
If it fails to install rpms its a good sign that you have either broken
ram or you run that 2.2.14 kernel with a buggy ide driver.
Get a newer
On Mon, Sep 18, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 06:16:17PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
> > The matrox driver OTOH is well accelerated, even on top of the framebuffer
> > device. There may be some endianness etc. bugs though.
>
> This is just my current understanding, but w/o patches
On Wed, Sep 13, Josh Huber wrote:
> Attached is my log output and XF86Config file.
>
> Of note, is the error that gets displayed to the console (which isn't
> in the log file):
> FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument
>
> I suspect something got broken FB related?
Don't specify any "Modes" line.
On Fri, Jul 14, LATBauerdick wrote:
> However, at the OF prompt (after booting with command option OF) I do not
> find a way to send the necessary back-slashes!
Use the # key. But this doesn't work on some of the early B&W G3
machines, if you have such a machine use another usb keyboard or the
Hi,
is there any oldworld box with 768 MB out there?
If yes, can you please test the current 2.2.17pre6 kernel if it boots
fine?
It doesn't boot on a G4 with 832MB, but with a 1GB B50 machine.
A precompiled binary can be found (in the next hours) at
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/BETA/vm
On Wed, Jun 14, Stephen Judd wrote:
> It seems to be setserial that's the problem, removing this package cured
> it. Since my Powerbook doesn't have any serial ports, I'm not sure what
> it was doing there anyway - I don't remember deliberately installing it.
rm -f /lib/moduls/`uname -r`/misc/s
On Wed, Jun 07, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > And please: Don't make it unmaintainable with the Apple_Bootstrap type.
> > Appfle_HFS is the correct type.
>
> Please don't create problems for yourself, Apple_Bootstrap is the
> correct type. using an HFS partition will only cause you problems and
> pa
On Wed, Jun 07, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 03:35:17PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> >
> > I can't solve that /proc /kern thing, its a topic for l-k.
>
> more like a flamewar... ;-)
>
> [snip]
>
> > The support database is nearly
On Wed, Jun 07, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > > SuSE wrote an extremely obfuscated shell script to try and figure this
> > > out,
> >
> > Cool! And SuSE's a good company that releases things like this as OSS/DFSG
> > compliant,
> > right? Where can I get it and test it on my machine? (Nothing ob
On Wed, Apr 05, Legalh wrote:
> how to make a xmodmap with 8859-2 on my amiga/apus/debianppc box?
Please, don't start with workarounds. Xmodmap is only useful for broken
distributions... or if you don't have any root access to your machine ;)
Just create a proper xkb/keycodes/amiga , xkb/symbols
On Tue, Mar 28, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> I've put an NMU of Quik 2.0e with patches in Incoming - with luck and
> archive maintainers it will be available soon.
>
> I'd appreciate feedback on it. Also, in the postinst is some commented
> out PReP work - is it relevant? If so could someone with
On Fri, Mar 17, The Proteus wrote:
> I've just installed Debian/PPC on my PowerMac 8600, and XF68 is
> failing to load with the XF68_FBDev server. I haven't tweaked or touched
> the XF86Config file, and have little or nothing to go on to see if I need
> to, or if something is totally breakin
On Tue, Feb 29, Renaud Dreyer wrote:
> I've been trying to compile mol-0.9.41 on my PowerMac 7300 running
> Debian Potato but it complains that libiberty.h is missing. In which
> package can I find this? A search of debian.org or of Usenet yielded
> no clue. Thanks,
It is in the binutils sourc
On Tue, Jan 25, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 11:42:06AM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> >
> > But I have another problem: We want (basic) support for APUS in the
> > upcoming release and the current kernel 2.2.15pre4 can not be compiled.
...
> > make[1]
On Mon, Jan 24, Renaud Dreyer wrote:
> has anyone managed to successfully compile 2.2.15pre4? I get the following
> error:
>
> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
> -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -D__powerpc__ -fsigned-char
> -msoft-float -pipe -fn
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