Maxwell O. Yeboah wrote:
Hi,
I am new to linux and i have been trying to download a CD image so I can
install on my
Pentium III 800 MHz HP PC But due to the slow nature of the internet in
our part of the
world, i am unable to do so and I don't have a credit card to buy the CD
set online.
Whi
Hi, I'm new to Linux on PowerPC, I recently lucked into a post-Feb05 17"
PowerBook G4. Needless to say I blew away Mac OS X pretty quickly and
installed Debian etch, which was later upgraded to unstable. The kernel
is a custom 2.6.20.6 kernel with preemption installed (I note that
because it's
Jack Malmostoso wrote:
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:20:09 +0200, Andrew J. Barr wrote:
The kernel
is a custom 2.6.20.6 kernel with preemption installed (I note that
because it's not in the default powerpc kernel from etch)
Preemption on PPC is (was?) a bad bad idea.
Try using the Debian
Jack Malmostoso wrote:
As for the rest, check that DMA is activated on your hard drive. Which is
extremely slow anyway... I have an iBook so I know what I'm talking
about :)
What is wrong with the hard disk? Is it the IDE controller or the hard
disk itself? I have a couple of laptop (2.5") ha
Jack Malmostoso wrote:
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:50:30 +0200, Andrew J. Barr wrote:
I
have a 7200RPM 100GB drive in my Thinkpad that I'd prefer to use in the
PowerBook if it would help speed it up...
It sure would. But be prepared to quite an adventure if you want to
replace your PB&#x
Jack Malmostoso wrote:
As for the rest, check that DMA is activated on your hard drive. Which is
extremely slow anyway... I have an iBook so I know what I'm talking
about :)
Okay, as far as I can tell, the hard disk isn't the issue. I've run
hdparm -t and hdparm -T on a few machines and the n
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Hi, what is the recommended method of controlling the CPU clock speed on
PowerBooks (Alu PowerBook G4, 1.67 GHz PowerPC 7447A)? I usually use
powernowd because it's fairly simple and requires no configuration, but
the package description says that it w
hanks in advance.
[0] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-April/023882.html
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Taylor Oliphant wrote:
> Nvidia indeed - g4 1.33ghz
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> So do you mean forget about it like, no hope what so
> ever?
Not whatsoever, but something approaching that:
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/
Some day. For the time being however, they put out
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Typhoon wrote:
> OK, thanks to everyone.
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> I reinstalled from the main Debian disk #1 and 'sleep' now works, but
> only from the Power Icon on the top panel.
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> I presume there is some gdm config that I need to do to get the various
> options to sh
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> On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 15:59 -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote:
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>> Taylor Oliphant wrote:
>>> Anyone have Beryl running? I have a power
architecture and bells and whistles that make
it a nice computer even 18 months later--I'd like to use it to it's
potential.
[0] This is why:
http://www.colug.net/pipermail/colug432/2007-April/004311.html
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Can anyone comment on the practical usefulness of QEMU i386 user-mode
emulation on PowerPC (1.67 GHz 7447A on a Powerbook5,7)? Is it practical
for running applications...e.g. maybe Windows apps under Wine?
Thanks in advance.
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x27;t think that it's x86-specific, so we should be able to benefit
in a few kernel versions.
> I just thought it would be neat to see where are the energy leaks
> when I'm on the go!
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> Thanks for your opinions!
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Nouveau crew at this address:
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around this in
software, e.g. a kernel patch? Thanks in advance.
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easily portable? One of the
attractive aspects of the unit I have now is it's small size. It isn't
much larger than the 2.5" disk it encloses.
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> until the error is solved?
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> G. Heinrich
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...depends on dmidecode, unavailable on ppc. Anyone know if it will be
available soon, or if this is bug-worthy? I can just imagine this being
the result of an x86-phile from the Ubuntu camp. >.<
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can
do to get a bit of a speed boost? I've already turned off PulseAudio,
window compositing, and shut down apps taking CPU time (like Azureus).
Thanks in advance.
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partition.
And, finally, anything I need to know about resizing Ext3 (should be
the same as on x86 PC's, no?) and the Apple partition table? How best
to reorganize that?
Thanks in advance, and sorry for asking so many questions, I'm still a
new PowerPC/Linux user.
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nt, the only way to access (local) NTFS disks with
full read-write privileges from non-Windows operating systems.
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too fast. Icons bounce up and down in the dock as if they're on
crack, etc etc. You get the idea.
This seems to not be an issue on my self-compiled, self-configured
2.6.22-rc5 (from wireless-dev) kernel, any clues as to the underlying
issue or if I should file any bugs with Debian or MOL on it?
urned off) that is better than dd + gzip (which compresses a 12GB
partition with 4.1GB of data into 7.8GB)?
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"Andrew J. Barr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I see that partimage doesn't work on big-endian machines, but I am
> leery of using a tool like dar because I don't know if I'll easily be
> able to replicate any voodoo (e.g. boot sectors) that Mac OS X needs
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