Re: Bug#859748: general: fails to address full 8GiB of DDR RAM on PowerMac G5 (only 5.8GiB)

2017-04-06 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
> >> I recently installed 4x1GiB sticks of DDR RAM into my PowerMac G5 DP 2.0 GHz. >> Apple indicates the maximum amount of RAM supported is indeed 8GiB. > > I'm inferring from this that you have the DP+ with 8 RAM slots, and you > have upgraded from 4 * 1 GiB to 8 * 1 GiB

Re: Newbie, iMac G3 600MHz 1GB Ram, black screen

2016-06-16 Thread Risto Suominen
2016-06-15 23:57 UTC+03.00, Alex Santos : > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "Configured Monitor" > HorizSync 58-62 > VertRefresh 75-117 > EndSection > Yes, that's it. The file in question is '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'. In addition to the Monitor section you would probably need at least a Screen section:

Re: Newbie, iMac G3 600MHz 1GB Ram, black screen

2016-06-15 Thread Risto Suominen
Hi Alex, iMac G3's monitor is very sensitive to the sync frequency: you must create an xorg.conf with correct values for HorizSync and VertRefresh. I can come later with the details, but they can be found in some old threads, too. Risto

Re: Newbie, iMac G3 600MHz 1GB Ram, black screen

2016-06-15 Thread Herminio Hernandez Jr.
What is your video card? Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 15, 2016, at 8:41 AM, Alex Santos wrote: > > Hello > > Source: debian-8.5.0-powerpc-netinst.iso > Using entire 40GB HD for the install. > > I tried to install only the utilities and i go as far as a single user prompt. > > If I install an

Newbie, iMac G3 600MHz 1GB Ram, black screen

2016-06-15 Thread Alex Santos
Hello Source: debian-8.5.0-powerpc-netinst.iso Using entire 40GB HD for the install. I tried to install only the utilities and i go as far as a single user prompt. If I install any of the GUIs the computer goes as far as a black screen. At the boot prompt is there something I can enter to edit

Re: Hibernation (suspend-to-ram) on iMac G4 with Debian Squeeze

2012-05-11 Thread e20100633
On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 18:44 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Just for reference since this question arise quite often on this > mailing list: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2010/09/msg00109.html > & > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2011/02/msg5.html Thank you for those li

Re: Hibernation (suspend-to-ram) on iMac G4 with Debian Squeeze

2012-05-11 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 5:31 PM, e20100633 wrote: > On 05/11/2012 05:15 PM, Michel Dänzer wrote: >> >> This means sleep (aka suspend to RAM) is not supported on your machine. >> Support for it has never been implemented for any non-laptop Apple >> PowerPC machines. &g

Re: Hibernation (suspend-to-ram) on iMac G4 with Debian Squeeze

2012-05-11 Thread e20100633
On 05/11/2012 05:15 PM, Michel Dänzer wrote: This means sleep (aka suspend to RAM) is not supported on your machine. Support for it has never been implemented for any non-laptop Apple PowerPC machines. Oh? What a shame. Thank you for your answer, not finding anything was driving me nuts

Re: Hibernation (suspend-to-ram) on iMac G4 with Debian Squeeze

2012-05-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fre, 2012-05-11 at 16:31 +0200, e20100633 wrote: > > I successfully installed Debian Squeeze (kernel 2.6.32-5-powerpc) on a > iMac G4. This is my first installation of Debian on a Apple desktop > computer. I have few question about it. The first one is about > hibernation

Hibernation (suspend-to-ram) on iMac G4 with Debian Squeeze

2012-05-11 Thread e20100633
(suspend-to-ram). I am unable to do it at all. I'm trying to do it with pm-suspend; but the command doesn't do anything and return no errors (even in /var/log/{messages|syslog}). After some research I found that I may not have suspend-to-ram: # echo -n mem > /sys/power/state bash

Re: Suspend to RAM leaves backlight on

2009-01-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-01-14 21:56:24 -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > 1. Get the debian source package and build it ourselves. See if that > prevents the issue. > > 2. Try out latest kernels 2.6.27 and 2.6.28 (by building from source) > and see if that prevents the issue. > > What do you think? I'm not su

Re: Suspend to RAM leaves backlight on

2009-01-14 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:15:55 +0100 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2009-01-14 08:29:03 -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > I never had a problem with this is Etch. In fact, I just tried this, it > > works fine with kernel 2.6.25 in lenny as well. If you can try using > > kernel 2.6.25 and confirm th

Re: Suspend to RAM leaves backlight on

2009-01-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-01-14 08:29:03 -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > I never had a problem with this is Etch. In fact, I just tried this, it > works fine with kernel 2.6.25 in lenny as well. If you can try using > kernel 2.6.25 and confirm that it works for you then we can isolate the > issue to kernel 2.6.26

Re: Suspend to RAM leaves backlight on

2009-01-14 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
> > > > On 2009-01-13 20:20:05 -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > > > > I am using powerbook 3,2 with ATI Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2X. Suspend to > > > > > RAM works sporadically. The disk spins down but the machine locks up > > > > > and leaves

Re: Suspend to RAM leaves backlight on

2009-01-14 Thread Hans Ekbrand
; > > I am using powerbook 3,2 with ATI Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2X. Suspend to > > > > RAM works sporadically. The disk spins down but the machine locks up > > > > and leaves the display on. This did not happen in Etch. > > > > > > Probably the same problem

Re: Suspend to RAM leaves backlight on

2009-01-14 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:16:12 +0100 Hans Ekbrand wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:59:27PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2009-01-13 20:20:05 -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > > I am using powerbook 3,2 with ATI Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2X. Suspend to > > > RAM w

Re: Suspend to RAM leaves backlight on

2009-01-14 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:59:27 +0100 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2009-01-13 20:20:05 -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > I am using powerbook 3,2 with ATI Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2X. Suspend to > > RAM works sporadically. The disk spins down but the machine locks up > > and

Re: Suspend to RAM leaves backlight on

2009-01-14 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:59:27PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2009-01-13 20:20:05 -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > I am using powerbook 3,2 with ATI Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2X. Suspend to > > RAM works sporadically. The disk spins down but the machine locks up > > a

Re: Suspend to RAM leaves backlight on

2009-01-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-01-13 20:20:05 -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > I am using powerbook 3,2 with ATI Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2X. Suspend to > RAM works sporadically. The disk spins down but the machine locks up > and leaves the display on. This did not happen in Etch. Probably the same problem as m

Re: Suspend to RAM leaves backlight on

2009-01-14 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 08:20:05PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > I am using powerbook 3,2 with ATI Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2X. Suspend to > RAM works sporadically. The disk spins down but the machine locks up > and leaves the display on. This did not happen in Etch. > > I tri

Suspend to RAM leaves backlight on

2009-01-13 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
I am using powerbook 3,2 with ATI Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2X. Suspend to RAM works sporadically. The disk spins down but the machine locks up and leaves the display on. This did not happen in Etch. I tried using the -r switch as stated in the s2ram man page but no luck. The driver I am using is r128

Suspend to RAM issues with Lenny

2008-09-11 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
2.6.26 and there has been issues with suspending to RAM. The hard drive spins down but the display remains active and the machine freezes (have to turn off power manually). The last message on the display is "Suspending console(s)". This was not an issue with Kernel 2.6.25. Machine

Re: Suspend to RAM on iBook with 2.6.24 doesn't work

2007-12-05 Thread Tony Breeds
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:21:27PM +, Jörg Sommer wrote: Hi Jörg, Thanks for passing on the patch to this thread. It looks to me that the trhread changed topic at the mid point ;P > The rest of the patch is code beautifying. In the 32bit case, you're right the second hunk isn't stri

Re: Suspend to RAM on iBook with 2.6.24 doesn't work

2007-12-05 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hallo Elimar, Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 the mental interface of > Jörg Sommer told: > >> Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 the mental interface of >> > Jörg Sommer told: >> >> I use 2.6.24-rc3 and now suspend and resume

Re: Suspend to RAM on iBook with 2.6.24 doesn't work

2007-12-05 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 the mental interface of Jörg Sommer told: > Hallo Elimar, > > Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 the mental interface of > > Jörg Sommer told: > >> I use 2.6.24-rc3 and now suspend and resume works without unloading the > >> modules before su

Re: Suspend to RAM on iBook with 2.6.24 doesn't work

2007-12-04 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hallo Elimar, Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 the mental interface of > Jörg Sommer told: >> I use 2.6.24-rc3 and now suspend and resume works without unloading the >> modules before suspending. But I've a very high cpu load from hardware >> interrupts. > > Conf

Re: Suspend to RAM on iBook with 2.6.24 doesn't work

2007-11-18 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 the mental interface of Jörg Sommer told: > Hallo, > > Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 the mental interface of > > Jörg Sommer told: > > > >> I've an iBook G4 800MHz. When suspending t

Re: Suspend to RAM on iBook with 2.6.24 doesn't work

2007-11-18 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hallo, Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 the mental interface of > Jörg Sommer told: > >> I've an iBook G4 800MHz. When suspending to RAM my iBook (with pbbuttons) >> the system switches to an empty console (coming from X) and st

Re: Suspend to RAM on iBook with 2.6.24 doesn't work

2007-11-16 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 the mental interface of Jörg Sommer told: > Hi, > > I've an iBook G4 800MHz. When suspending to RAM my iBook (with pbbuttons) > the system switches to an empty console (coming from X) and stays. Noting > happens. It looks like the suspend instructi

Re: Suspend to RAM on iBook with 2.6.24 doesn't work

2007-11-10 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 the mental interface of Jörg Sommer told: > Hi, > > I've an iBook G4 800MHz. When suspending to RAM my iBook (with pbbuttons) > the system switches to an empty console (coming from X) and stays. Noting > happens. It looks like the suspend instructi

Suspend to RAM on iBook with 2.6.24 doesn't work

2007-11-09 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi, I've an iBook G4 800MHz. When suspending to RAM my iBook (with pbbuttons) the system switches to an empty console (coming from X) and stays. Noting happens. It looks like the suspend instruction doesn't work. The capslock key works, but others do not—I didn't check the numlo

Re: [OT?] Maximum RAM for iBook blueberry 300Mhz

2007-09-08 Thread Ennio-Sr
* Pierre Bauduin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> < > Hello, > > apple-history.com says the "clamshell" iBooks have a maxium RAM of 288/320 > MB > > Look: > http://apple-history.com/body.php?page=3Dgallery&model=3Dibook&performa=3Do= > ff&sort

Re: [OT?] Maximum RAM for iBook blueberry 300Mhz

2007-09-08 Thread Pierre Bauduin
Hello, apple-history.com says the "clamshell" iBooks have a maxium RAM of 288/320 MB Look: http://apple-history.com/body.php?page=gallery&model=ibook&performa=off&sort=family&order=DESC Greetings, -- Pierre Bauduin Linux enthusiast since 1996 Linux registered user #6

[OT?] Maximum RAM for iBook blueberry 300Mhz

2007-09-08 Thread Ennio-Sr
Hi all! is any of you ever been able to install a 512MB SODIMM RAM on a first generation iBook? I tested a couple of such stuff with no success and could only install 256Mb. However, some sellers still claim their 512Mb sodimms would fit! Thanks for your attention. Ennio -- [Perche

Re: [Addendum] Re: Maximum RAM configured in kernel

2007-05-24 Thread Evan Clarke
Thanks for the info - I shall try on the weekend. I will keep you informed. On 5/23/07, Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, May 23 2007, at 14:32 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > [ ...] Forgot this: This is my machine: $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu

[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
NFIG_HIGHMEM_START=0xfe00 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/boot$ > > Any ideas? This is new for me, too. But this is what I would do: *** 1 Checking whether OSX recognises RAM correctly - If you don't have OSX installed, taking some OSX rescue CD for hardware diagnostics might help. *** 2

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

Re: Maximum RAM configured in kernel

2007-05-21 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
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. Something like: $ zgrep GHME /proc/config.gz CONFIG_HIG

Re: Maximum RAM configured in kernel

2007-05-20 Thread Evan Clarke
I am running a stock kernel - is HIGHMEM enabled in PPC like (as I understand) it is in x86? On 5/20/07, Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 20 May 2007 the mental interface of Evan Clarke told: > Hello > > I am running Etch on a G4 Cube with 1.5GB of RAM in i

Re: Maximum RAM configured in kernel

2007-05-20 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 20 May 2007 the mental interface of Evan Clarke told: > Hello > > I am running Etch on a G4 Cube with 1.5GB of RAM in it - however, no > matter what DIMMs I use, in what order (always 3x512MB) I cannot get > it to recognise more than 1.25GB. According to Wikipedia the maxi

Maximum RAM configured in kernel

2007-05-19 Thread Evan Clarke
Hello I am running Etch on a G4 Cube with 1.5GB of RAM in it - however, no matter what DIMMs I use, in what order (always 3x512MB) I cannot get it to recognise more than 1.25GB. According to Wikipedia the maximum amount of RAM for a G4 cube is 1.5GB. I was wondering if there was a limit

Re: suspend to ram/disk

2006-10-07 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 02:53:45PM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > On Sat, 7 Oct 2006 11:08:43 +0200 > Matthias Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unfortunately the keyboard and trackpad configuration would be lost if you > > limit your activities to a single ioctl(). Additionally you need to save >

Re: suspend to ram/disk

2006-10-07 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Sat, 7 Oct 2006 11:08:43 +0200 Matthias Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 22:11:46 +0200 > Tim Dijkstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Do you need also need to do all these weird quirks to get your graphics > > card to get out of sleep (vbetool, radeontool and the like)?

Re: suspend to ram/disk

2006-10-07 Thread Matthias Grimm
On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 22:11:46 +0200 Tim Dijkstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you need also need to do all these weird quirks to get your graphics > card to get out of sleep (vbetool, radeontool and the like)? > I saw some code flying around doing some ioctl()s on /dev/pmu. Is that > all you nee

suspend to ram/disk

2006-10-06 Thread Tim Dijkstra
Hi. [ please CC me ] First of all, unfortunately I don't have a ppc machine;) I'm the maintainer of uswsusp, it is a set of programs to use the vanilla kernel to suspend the machine to ram/disk or both. It adds encryption, compression and a splash screen (the last one isn'

Re: RAM for iBook

2006-08-05 Thread Tommy Trussell
it is close anyway. i would still reccommend people buy mac memory from mac suppliers, unless they are getting some huge discount or something, want to take a chance. I concur about finding a supplier that will certify it's the right memory. And it's not just Apple. I recently bought R

Re: RAM for iBook

2006-08-04 Thread brian
i just tried that site. they seem to have half cooked their database. i click through to a machine and then it comes up blank, apparently they erased some entries or never completed them. particularly my oldworld g3 and one of the fujitsu lifebooks i tried (i don't know how close it was to what

Re: RAM for iBook

2006-08-04 Thread Rick Thomas
Go to http://www.crucial.com/ . They have a complete list of specs for just about every machine you can name. Look up the machine the chips came from and the machine you want to put them into and see if they use compatible chips. Simple, eh? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: RAM for iBook

2006-08-03 Thread brian
sticking point is the special requirements. my advice is to go ahead and put sarge on and *then* try the xtra RAM, if you decide to try it. when you install allow 256-384 MB for the swap (virtual memory). if you decide not to try it, then pay for memory that comes from a real mac supplier - that knows

RAM for iBook

2006-08-02 Thread Lawrence Li
hi list: I hope this is not off-topic. My girlfriend's Fujitsu Lifebook broke (North Bridge burned) so I'm now in posess of the two 256 M RAM chips. I'm wondering if they'll run on an iBook G3 (late 2001) with Debian Sarge? I've heard that some Apple laptops are v

Re: DVD-RAM Mac Format HFS

2006-05-14 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 03:43:58AM -0400, Richard wrote: > That the part I not quite clear on, where would I add the string "10" > to mount that partition? Try a command line similar to this: mount -t hfsplus -o 'part=10' /dev/hdc /mntpoint If you're adding it to /etc/fstab, one of the fields is

Re: DVD-RAM Mac Format HFS

2006-05-14 Thread Richard
Brad Boyer wrote: On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 10:58:17PM -0400, Richard wrote: Using /dev/hdc (parted) p Disk label type: mac MinorStart End Filesystem Name Flags 1 0.002 0.125 Apple 2 0.125 0.152 Macintosh 3

Re: DVD-RAM Mac Format HFS

2006-05-14 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 10:58:17PM -0400, Richard wrote: > Using /dev/hdc > (parted) p > Disk label type: mac > MinorStart End Filesystem Name Flags > 1 0.002 0.125 Apple > 2 0.125 0.152 Macintosh > 3 0.1

Re: DVD-RAM Mac Format HFS

2006-05-13 Thread Richard
is a session= option for hfsplus to select the right session on the disc in the source I have here. Brad Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have some more info: ( dvd-ram disk is loaded ) but not mounted [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo mkdir /mnt/osx [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo modprobe hf

Re: DVD-RAM Mac Format HFS

2006-05-13 Thread Richard
Brad Boyer wrote: Is it a multi-session disc? There is a session= option for hfsplus to select the right session on the disc in the source I have here. No its not a multi-session (its dvd-ram) its not a dvd-rw I just install it on my mac (formated) then copy back up items, and done. When

Re: DVD-RAM Mac Format HFS

2006-05-13 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 09:13:24AM -0400, Richard wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo mount -t hfsplus /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, > missing codepage or other error > In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try > dme

Re: DVD-RAM Mac Format HFS

2006-05-13 Thread Richard
Nick J. Fuller wrote: what have you tried? does mount /media/cdrom work? On 12/05/06, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How can I get linux to read mac formated dvd-ram, when I put in a mac formated dvd-ram, nothing happens. Thanks - Rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: DVD-RAM Mac Format HFS

2006-05-13 Thread Nick J. Fuller
what have you tried? does mount /media/cdrom work? On 12/05/06, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How can I get linux to read mac formated dvd-ram, when I put in a mac formated dvd-ram, nothing happens. Thanks - Rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

DVD-RAM Mac Format HFS

2006-05-12 Thread Richard
How can I get linux to read mac formated dvd-ram, when I put in a mac formated dvd-ram, nothing happens. Thanks - Rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sarge installer for Mac Performa 6400/180 with 16MB RAM?

2006-03-29 Thread Nelson Castillo
> When we reboot the machine (after the initial stage of the > woody installation) there's nothing in the screen and we have > to recover using command + option + p + r. > > I guess We've been warned. What does "*not* boot from OF" > mean? I'm sorry. I missed part of the thread and I just noticed

Re: Sarge installer for Mac Performa 6400/180 with 16MB RAM?

2006-03-29 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 3/20/06, Simon Vallet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:03:23 +0100 > Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > No need for BootX (and with 16 MB RAM, the HD is probably small too, > > so avoiding BooX seems preferable). My recommendatio

Re: Sarge installer for Mac Performa 6400/180 with 16MB RAM?

2006-03-22 Thread Hans Ekbrand
Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > No need for BootX (and with 16 MB RAM, the HD is probably small too, > > > > so avoiding BooX seems preferable). My recommendation is boot floppies > > > > from woody and boot the in

Re: Sarge installer for Mac Performa 6400/180 with 16MB RAM?

2006-03-22 Thread Simon Vallet
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:28:54 +0100 Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 03:09:18PM +0100, Simon Vallet wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:03:23 +0100 > > Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > No need for BootX (an

Re: Sarge installer for Mac Performa 6400/180 with 16MB RAM?

2006-03-20 Thread Simon Vallet
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:03:23 +0100 Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No need for BootX (and with 16 MB RAM, the HD is probably small too, > so avoiding BooX seems preferable). My recommendation is boot floppies > from woody and boot the installed system with quik. Thats ho

Re: Sarge installer for Mac Performa 6400/180 with 16MB RAM?

2006-03-20 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 03:09:18PM +0100, Simon Vallet wrote: > On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:03:23 +0100 > Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > No need for BootX (and with 16 MB RAM, the HD is probably small too, > > so avoiding BooX seems preferable). My reco

Re: Sarge installer for Mac Performa 6400/180 with 16MB RAM?

2006-03-20 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 12:28:55PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (17/03/06 09:37), Nelson Castillo wrote: > > A user said she will bring a Macintosh Performa 6400/180 with > > 16MB RAM [1] to the installfest[2]. > > > > Will the sarge installer work with only 16 M

Re: Sarge installer for Mac Performa 6400/180 with 16MB RAM?

2006-03-20 Thread Clive Menzies
On (17/03/06 09:37), Nelson Castillo wrote: > A user said she will bring a Macintosh Performa 6400/180 with > 16MB RAM [1] to the installfest[2]. > > Will the sarge installer work with only 16 MB of RAM? > > I would like to know whether I can manage to install sarge > the

Re: linux does not see my RAM

2005-10-28 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 08:48:55AM -0400, Tamas K Papp wrote: > On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 09:32:15PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > Actually, if you don't want to take the perfs. hit caused by > > > > CONFIG_HIGHMEM, you can also play around with TASK_SIZE and KERNELBASE > > > > valu

Re: linux does not see my RAM

2005-10-28 Thread Tamas K Papp
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 09:32:15PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Actually, if you don't want to take the perfs. hit caused by > > > CONFIG_HIGHMEM, you can also play around with TASK_SIZE and KERNELBASE > > > values in the .config :) But if you don't know what it's all about, then > >

Re: linux does not see my RAM

2005-10-28 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 11:44 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 05:48:46PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > Total memory = 768MB; using 2048kB for hash table (at c040) > > > > > > Sure, without HIGHMEM, 768MB is the max memory available. > > > > Actually, if you do

Re: linux does not see my RAM

2005-10-28 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 05:48:46PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Total memory = 768MB; using 2048kB for hash table (at c040) > > > > Sure, without HIGHMEM, 768MB is the max memory available. > > Actually, if you don't want to take the perfs. hit caused by > CONFIG_HIGHMEM, you ca

Re: linux does not see my RAM

2005-10-28 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> > Total memory = 768MB; using 2048kB for hash table (at c040) > > Sure, without HIGHMEM, 768MB is the max memory available. Actually, if you don't want to take the perfs. hit caused by CONFIG_HIGHMEM, you can also play around with TASK_SIZE and KERNELBASE values in the .config :) But if you

Re: linux does not see my RAM

2005-10-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 06:47:07PM -0400, Tamas K Papp wrote: > Hi, > > I have recently upgraded the ram in my G4 AlBook (PowerBook5,4). I > had two 256 Mb modules there, and replaced one of them by a 1 GB one. You ned a kernel with HIGHMEM enabled. the debian kernels have it, but

linux does not see my RAM

2005-10-27 Thread Tamas K Papp
Hi, I have recently upgraded the ram in my G4 AlBook (PowerBook5,4). I had two 256 Mb modules there, and replaced one of them by a 1 GB one. OS X recognizes that, eg System Profile/Memory says Memory Slot SizeTypeSpeed SODIMM0/J25LOWER256 MB DDR SDRAM

Re: suspend-to-ram with 2.6.13

2005-09-03 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[...] > so the only possibility is to work with spuspend-to-disk (swsusp2)? > Yes, at least http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/05/msg00356.html says so. HTH, Michael signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: suspend-to-ram with 2.6.13

2005-09-03 Thread Alexander Strobl
nd-process starts and falls back to console with no errors. >> > > > Just curious - did it ever work? I thought there was some problem with the > nvidia-chip and thus suspend-to-ram wouldn't work at all!? no, i did not try it with an older kernel. this was my first try. so the

Re: suspend-to-ram with 2.6.13

2005-09-03 Thread Michael Tautschnig
arts and falls back to console with no errors. > Just curious - did it ever work? I thought there was some problem with the nvidia-chip and thus suspend-to-ram wouldn't work at all!? Thanks, Michael signature.asc Description: Digital signature

suspend-to-ram with 2.6.13

2005-09-03 Thread Alexander Strobl
hi all, i compiled kernel 2.6.13 on my 12" powerbook (newest model). /sys/power/state looks like: "standby mem disk" i tried: echo -n mem > /sys/power/state and echo -n standby > /sys/power/state the suspend-process starts and falls back to console with no errors. i disabled sound support in th

Re: Suspend to ram problem with pbbuttonsd

2005-07-14 Thread Matthias Grimm
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:20:23 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have some problems with pbbuttonsd and suspend to ram while i'm on the > battery. pbbuttonsd doesn't seem to intercept any keyboard/mouse activity. > This > cause my ibook g4 to go in suspend mo

Suspend to ram problem with pbbuttonsd

2005-07-14 Thread ptitlouis
Hi, I have some problems with pbbuttonsd and suspend to ram while i'm on the battery. pbbuttonsd doesn't seem to intercept any keyboard/mouse activity. This cause my ibook g4 to go in suspend mode. It appears just after an upgrade but i don't remember if it was a kernel or a pbb

604e machines with faster RAM buses ?

2004-12-10 Thread vinai
Hey folks, I have a project that I'd like to work on (debian, PPC based PVR) and I wanted to try to use a motherboard with 604e CPUs (computational + power efficiency) and a faster memory bus (because of video data) in macs with this CPU (typically 50 MHz). I seem to remember some boards made by

[OT] 2nd RAM row

2004-10-30 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi all, I know this is OT, though The second RAM row of my AlPB15" G4 isn`t recognized neither in LINUX nor in OSX. I changed the chips to check them working: OK Is there a jumper or something to activate the row or do I have to change the motherboard? Thank you in advance Elimar --

Re: password prompt on resume fro suspend to ram

2004-10-25 Thread Michael Schmitz
> Is there a way to configure pmud on my ibook g3 to ask for password > when resuming from suspend to ram ? Patching pmud won't help you there. You would have to patch the kernel. Michael

Re: umounting cryptoloop before swsusp / suspend to ram

2004-10-24 Thread Thomas Otto
Can anyone share with me how to solve the following problem. I keep some important data on an cryptoloop. But i have to umount it before suspend to ram / swsusp. On i386 i had configured acpi so when i pressed the power button the system umounted cryptoloop and did swsusp. Is this possible on ppc

umounting cryptoloop before swsusp / suspend to ram

2004-10-24 Thread Maciej Jan Broniarz
Hi, Can anyone share with me how to solve the following problem. I keep some important data on an cryptoloop. But i have to umount it before suspend to ram / swsusp. On i386 i had configured acpi so when i pressed the power button the system umounted cryptoloop and did swsusp. Is this possible on

password prompt on resume fro suspend to ram

2004-10-24 Thread Maciej Jan Broniarz
Hi, Is there a way to configure pmud on my ibook g3 to ask for password when resuming from suspend to ram ? gausus -- [ ---< Maciej Jan Broniarz || [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ] | Siamo qui \ sotto la stessa luce \ sotto la sua croce \ | | cantando ad una voce \ E l'Emmanuel Emmanue

Re: 2.6.4 not detecting all ram on TiBook 4

2004-03-11 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 the mental interface of Satadru Pramanik told: > I just upgraded the ram on my system from 512MB to 1024MB and the system > when running in linux does not detect all the ram on the system. OS X > recognizes that two 512 MB PC133 SDRAM chips are installed. > &

2.6.4 not detecting all ram on TiBook 4

2004-03-11 Thread Satadru Pramanik
I just upgraded the ram on my system from 512MB to 1024MB and the system when running in linux does not detect all the ram on the system. OS X recognizes that two 512 MB PC133 SDRAM chips are installed. dmesg shows this: Total memory = 768MB; using 2048kB for hash table (at c060) Linux

Re: another mol issue - failed to map RAM

2003-07-02 Thread Rogério Brito
On Jul 03 2003, Oliver Ripka wrote: > /dev/zero, open: No such file or directory I think that's weird, but also easy to fix. Just type (as root): # cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV std It should take care of the device (and of others that may be missing). Hope this helps, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-

another mol issue - failed to map RAM

2003-07-02 Thread Oliver Ripka
Hi, mol bugs me since the new year began. Here the latest problems: when I run startmol -X I get following error: /dev/zero, open: No such file or directory a "man zero" helped out. But why wasn't the zero device created during the install process? olliwolli

Re: What is /dev/ram

2003-01-15 Thread Clive Menzies
Title: Re: What is /dev/ram At 12:51 pm -0700 15/1/03, Philip Larkin Waters wrote: so I edited lilo.conf (for some reason there are two of them on my system, i edited both, because the first didn't seem to have any effect: set rootdev=/dev/ram) You should only have one lilo.conf file

What is /dev/ram

2003-01-15 Thread Philip Larkin Waters
Title: Re: Got this far on a 7100/80 so I edited lilo.conf (for some reason there are two of them on my system, i edited both, because the first didn't seem to have any effect: set rootdev=/dev/ram)   When I reboot: "Cannot open root device "ram" or 01:00      what is /d

Re: missing ram

2003-01-08 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 03:51:48PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just installed 1G of ram into my 667Mhz tibook DVI. OSX sees it all, > however under linux, the free command only shows 77268 kB. Do I need to > set a kernel parameter or something? I'm running 2.4.20-ben1 (of

Re: missing ram

2003-01-08 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Don, 2003-01-09 at 00:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just installed 1G of ram into my 667Mhz tibook DVI. OSX sees it all, > however under linux, the free command only shows 77268 kB. Do I need to > set a kernel parameter or something? I'm running 2.4.20-ben1 (off the >

missing ram

2003-01-08 Thread brett-debianppc
I just installed 1G of ram into my 667Mhz tibook DVI. OSX sees it all, however under linux, the free command only shows 77268 kB. Do I need to set a kernel parameter or something? I'm running 2.4.20-ben1 (off the rsync-tree) -Brett

Re: Video RAM detection for X

2002-05-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 15:40, Steven Tomcavage wrote: > > I tried to install a 2.4 kernel, but I ran into some keyboard issues. > I know the keymap has been changed in woody to use Linux keycodes, but > I was running woody previously with the 2.2 kernel. > > I was also already using Linux keycodes

Re: Video RAM detection for X

2002-05-06 Thread Chris Tillman
> I know it works on the hardware. > > > > > > When I look through the X log, it doesn't look like the > > > correct amount of video RAM is being detected. The > > machine > > > has 1 MB of video RAM. I tried setting VideoRam to 1024 > > in &

Re: Video RAM detection for X

2002-05-06 Thread Steven Tomcavage
ng up the system, but now it > is > > limiting. I am using an 800x600 display. I have the Mac > > side of the machine displaying 16 bit color at 800x600, > so > > I know it works on the hardware. > > > > When I look through the X log, it doesn't look like the > &

Re: Video RAM detection for X

2002-05-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
ac > side of the machine displaying 16 bit color at 800x600, so > I know it works on the hardware. > > When I look through the X log, it doesn't look like the > correct amount of video RAM is being detected. The machine > has 1 MB of video RAM. I tried setting VideoRam to

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