Re: tiBook CPU speed

2002-08-06 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Go to the main penguinppc.org page. Apparent BenH has gotten the >800Mhz TiBook's to run at native speed. I have a hunch though, that >maybe the 667Mhz and 800Mhz TiBook's are exactly the same hardware, and >it is only a software hack to get them to go to 800Mhz (this is why the >spee

Re: tiBook CPU speed

2002-08-06 Thread Michael Furr
On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 10:36, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > You can try if you aren't afraid..., just get my latest rsync or bk > tree, then do > > echo "cpu_low_speed=0" >/proc/pmu/options cool. Do you have any plans to try to integrate this with the cpu temperature detection so that it would a

Re: Woody on IBM RS/6000 7025 F50

2002-08-06 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 12:40:12PM +0300, George Karaolides wrote: > > Has anyone managed to install Debian on one of these? All > pointers/suggestins gratefully accepted. I've read the Debian > installation manual for this architecture but have found no indication as > to how to solve this prob

Re: Woody on IBM RS/6000 7025 F50

2002-08-06 Thread Tom Gall
George Karaolides wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to install Debian woody on an IBM RS/6000 7025 F50 using the > latest floppies. > > I'm having very little success so far. The best I've managed is to get a > "Booting:" message from OpenFirmware using the chrc rescue floppy and the > OpenFirmware

tiBook CPU speed

2002-08-06 Thread Toby Sargeant
I noticed this issue mentioned previously on this list, but there didn't seem to be any resolution. The 800MHz tiBook boots linux in 667MHz mode: /proc/device-tree/cpus/PowerPC,G4 min-clock-frequency 000: 27c1 9cc0'... max-clock-frequency 000: 2faf 0800

Re: tiBook CPU speed

2002-08-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 10:50:43AM -0400, Michael Furr wrote: > Do you have any plans to try to integrate this with the cpu temperature > detection so that it would automagically downclock when it runs too hot > for too long? Surely that's something that should be done in user space? -- "You gr

Re: tiBook CPU speed

2002-08-06 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>Do you have any plans to try to integrate this with the cpu temperature >detection so that it would automagically downclock when it runs too hot >for too long? > >Might prolong the life of the machine a bit. No, the internal CPU temperature stuff is broken, and not supported anymore in the 745x f

Re: modem, mol, gnome session on Pismo/woody

2002-08-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 13:50, Jean-Christophe Michel wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>"Jean-Christophe" == Jean-Christophe Michel > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > And last, is it possible to save open applications in gnome > > > session to be opened automatical

Re: key configuration and sound

2002-08-06 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 01:28, matthew yee-king wrote: > > > 2) Does somebody know how to configure the sound card of a powerbook > > (pismo in my case) ? > > > > playing /usr/share/sounds/startup2.wav > > > > give > > > > sox: Can't open output file 'dev/dsp': No such device > > > > try the al

Woody on IBM RS/6000 7025 F50

2002-08-06 Thread George Karaolides
Hi all, I'm trying to install Debian woody on an IBM RS/6000 7025 F50 using the latest floppies. I'm having very little success so far. The best I've managed is to get a "Booting:" message from OpenFirmware using the chrc rescue floppy and the OpenFirmware command 0> boot floppy:.\linux.bin ro

RE: key configuration and sound

2002-08-06 Thread deFreese, Barry
I have the same problem and when I run "modprobe dmasound_pmac" it tells me that it can't locate the module. What's the quickest way to get the module? Can I apt-get it? Thanks, Barry deFreese NTS Technology Services Manager Nike Team Sports (949)-616-4005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Technology doesn't

Re: key configuration and sound

2002-08-06 Thread Jesus Climent
On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 04:53:27PM -0700, deFreese, Barry wrote: > > I have the same problem and when I run "modprobe dmasound_pmac" it tells me > that it can't locate the module. What's the quickest way to get the module? > Can I apt-get it? You probably have to recompile the kernel. Modules ar

Re: tiBook CPU speed

2002-08-06 Thread Bobby MacGregor
Go to the main penguinppc.org page. Apparent BenH has gotten the 800Mhz TiBook's to run at native speed. I have a hunch though, that maybe the 667Mhz and 800Mhz TiBook's are exactly the same hardware, and it is only a software hack to get them to go to 800Mhz (this is why the speed throttlin

Re: key configuration and sound

2002-08-06 Thread matthew yee-king
> 2) Does somebody know how to configure the sound card of a powerbook > (pismo in my case) ? > > playing /usr/share/sounds/startup2.wav > > give > > sox: Can't open output file 'dev/dsp': No such device > try the alsa drivers: http://www.alsa-project.org/ i'm using them on my powerbook g4.

Re: tiBook CPU speed

2002-08-06 Thread Michael Furr
On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 11:34, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Anyway, once that is merged with cpufreq, I'd rather let userland decide > on policy of what to do with CPU speed. Something else we may want to > implement is a way (sysctl ?) to control the ICTC (instruction cache > throttling). This ha

Re: ICTC control (was: tiBook CPU speed)

2002-08-06 Thread Michel Lanners
On 6 Aug, this message from Benjamin Herrenschmidt echoed through cyberspace: > Something else we may want to > implement is a way (sysctl ?) to control the ICTC (instruction cache > throttling). This has the effect of slowing down instruction fetching > by the CPU and lowering it's temperature &

Terminal Server checkup

2002-08-06 Thread Falk Husemann
Helo! Thought my complete computing environnement will change in the next 6 month I have to check up if I have to be prepared to buy new stuff. I have choosen to only have one computer in the house and all other access this with there X-Terminals. That means for my that I do only need one Inte

X problem

2002-08-06 Thread Jean-Sébastien Rousseau-Piot
Hi, I'm using kernel 2.2.19 on a Pismo and everything was ok (including X) until I apt-get installed some new packages. X refuse now to start and the reason seems a bit strange for me. X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory), aborting. xdm error (pid 236): server unexpectedly di

Re: X problem

2002-08-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 00:07, Jean-Sébastien Rousseau-Piot wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using kernel 2.2.19 on a Pismo and everything was ok (including X) > until I apt-get installed some new packages. > > X refuse now to start and the reason seems a bit strange for me. > > X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No

Problems mounting cdrom

2002-08-06 Thread Greg Howland
I'm trying to mount the cdrom on a PowerBook G3 Lombard, running Testing. When I enter the command 'mount /dev/cdrom' I get the error 'mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist'. I have an entry for it in /etc/fstab. What else needs to be done? -- Greg _

Re: modem, mol, gnome session on Pismo/woody

2002-08-06 Thread Jean-Christophe Michel
Siggi Langauf wrote: On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Jean-Christophe Michel wrote: I get an error message compiling (with make-kpkg modules_images called from /usr/src/benh_kernel/ ): make[1]: dh_testdir: Command not found. All packages are updated... What can be the problem ? run "apt-get build-dep

Re: Problems mounting cdrom

2002-08-06 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 03:59:27PM -0700, Greg Howland wrote: > I'm trying to mount the cdrom on a PowerBook G3 Lombard, > running Testing. When I enter the command 'mount /dev/cdrom' > I get the error 'mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist'. > I have an entry for it in /etc/fstab. What e

Re: modem, mol, gnome session on Pismo/woody

2002-08-06 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 02:41:23AM +0200, Jean-Christophe Michel wrote: > Siggi Langauf wrote: > >On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Jean-Christophe Michel wrote: > > >>I get an error message compiling (with make-kpkg modules_images > >>called from /usr/src/benh_kernel/ ): > >> > >>make[1]: dh_testdir: Command n