Re: Updated installer images 2020-12-02

2020-12-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/5/20 2:44 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> Your blank screen may have a different cause such as such as missing >> firmware for your graphics card which is a result of Debian Ports >> currently not having access to contrib and non-free during >> installation - something I can't influence but that

Re: kernel 5.9 no keyboard on PowerBook

2020-12-09 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Stan Johnson wrote: Adrian, Yes, the 5.9.0 kernel works on my PB G4 12".  The built-in keyboard is detected as ADB.  In a Google search, everything I was able to find indicated that G4 PowerBooks use ADB for their built-in keyboards and trackpads. I can say that 5.7 kernels recognize the i

Re: poor relative G4 performance iBook/PowerBook

2020-12-09 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Brian Morris wrote: % 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 I wanted t

Re: kernel 5.9 no keyboard on PowerBook

2020-12-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/9/20 3:22 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Also, good news, I updated today and again a 5.9 kernel was installed and > updated, > but it is 2020-11-27 and the keyboard works again! > (Interestingly, the external apple keyboard still doesn't work). Have you independently verified that the ext

Re: poor relative G4 performance iBook/PowerBook

2020-12-09 Thread Brian Morris
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 > > > > Install smartctl to che