look at the battery-powered mini-howto:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Battery-Powered.html
When I configured my laptop at work, tat was quite helpful.
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ng. Might be different on 2.4
kernels, since you talk about some /proc thing...
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our selected, analyzed port.
If you just want traffic stats per port, a tool like MRTG (Andreas sent
you the link) is able to graph SNMP variables, under condition that your
Bay switch supports SNMP and makes those varaibles available.
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Copland was the last straw. I worked there more than nine years. (sigh)
Happy trails.
a
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But like so many useful patches, it went into the wind...
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preter ;-)
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> On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 01:45:51PM +0100, Michel Lanners wrote:
>> On 17 Feb, this message from Sebastiaan echoed through cyberspace:
>> > it took me a couple of days before I had figured out how it works.
.4.0
prerelease kernels, all other PPC kernels do not use the 'PCI Quirks'
config option.
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e there any web sites that list quirks with OF with different mac
> computers?
Here's a bit about my hacks to OF 1.0.5:
http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan/linux/dev/g3upgrade.html
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don't remember who that was, off the top of my head...
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This passed on linuxppc-users; would any kind debian souls with a
matching system please test this also?
Thanks
Michel
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Subject: test kernel for 7300/7500/7600/8500/8600 users
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 00:28:10 -
to reset boot-device and boot-file back to
what you need for Linux.
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, you have to tweak the MacOS boot-device info which is a
> different thing (and pretty screwed).
Ah, miBoot. I never experimented with that one. I stand corrected, then
;-)
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So on the 7300 OF's display capabilities are not as broken as on the
7200...
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^^^
Another victim of the new input layer ;-)
You have to reconfigure your device files if tat's not already done) and
point your mouse-using software (gpm and X) at the new device file:
/dev/inout/mice.
Hava alook at the list archives and search for 'inout layer&#x
're not using double colons in your remote path, are you? Double
colons (::) means connect to rsync server, which is not started with a
default install. Use single colon for rcp-like mode, optionally using
ssh (see the man page for that).
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(like penguinppc.org has done for
linux-ppc kernels).
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the ICTC regsiter
(Instruction Cache Throttling Control).
HTH
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quik:
quik -f -i
Save your old first.b (don't overwrite the one in /boot !!), in cae
anything goes wrong. Also, make sure you have some other way (i.e.BootX)
to get your machine up before fiddling with quik! But I suppose you
havem since quik doesn't work ;-)
Michel
for config based on what general options you enable for me
it shows _without_ 'PCMCIA net..' being selected the first time. Select
that, deselect it, and the Airport is gone Some dependency
inconsistency?
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ange (keycodes and
> symbols):
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Keyboard0"
> Driver "keyboard"
> Option "XkbModel" "macintosh_old"
> Option
> I get the same "DEFAULT CATCH" error as before, but with a different value
> for "code=": FFF00700.
What version of quik are you using? I'm running some old quik-1.3
version myself; I didn't want to go thorugh the trouble of getting
another version booting
the PPC. If
you have enough free PCI slots, you can add many of them ;-)
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age loader doesn't like the 2.0 second stage
> loader.
>
>> If you are using some 2.x version, you might want to give 1.3 a try,
>> fith my first.b.
>
> Yes, I'm using 2.x - that's what gets installed by default by Debian
> 2.2r2.
>
> Do you have
ill only show you configured interfaces, not unconfigured ones.
Running 'ifconfig -a' will show _all_ interfaces.
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f PPC changes (which,
as we all know, can take an eternity and a half...)
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hird, architecture)...
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some horrible external glue & arbitration logic...
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7600, and though some operations were faster, it was slower
overall compared to the 'naked' controlfb.
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s a _big_, even _huge_ improvement: no less
than _double_ the memory bandwidth, according to the hdparm buffer
test.
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up.
Also, on all chaos-based machines, your quik wrapper could patch OF to
correctly drive the chaos display under OF Let me know if you need
the patch. Or, include a means for user-specified nvramrc patches, and
pre-load it with the chaos patch.
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On 16 Apr, this message from Ethan Benson echoed through cyberspace:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 05:40:17PM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote:
>>
>> 7600/132, with G3/300 processor upgrade, OF version 1.0.5, booting from
>> internal SCSI disk. Note that OF 1.0.5 is broken (as far a
ramrc contains by default on each box. I couzld very well imagine that
there are different revisions of the same box with revised nvramrc
patches... without incrementing the OF version number. Probably a
positive list of known machines is a minimum; but still potentially
dangerous...
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o hopefully all is fixed now.
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meric value, I get maybe 70-80%
maximum quality, next to the base
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ith walls.
Oh well, I'll move the base station around a bit.
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Hi,
> OTOH the wireless plugin for gkrellm is showing quality around 200, dunno what
> that number means...
Anybody know what plugins/applets are available for monitoring wireless links?
I'm
mostly interested in afterstep myself... I did a quick search on google this
morning,
but it didn't show
console attached to the modem port (I think) setup for 38000,8n1.
Holding Cmd-Opt-O-F should get you an OF promt on the console, then.
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non-aligned, and
greatly reduce receive levels. I'll have to open up the base station and
see in what position they mounted the antenna ;-)
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> wake up quickly when I press a key.
Which means you're running a very recentish kernel from benh; those have
sleep suport for the TiBook. FYI, mine just crashed after aking it up
this way. Locked solid :-((
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ning kernel under under 2.2 kernels (not
under 2.4 kernels anymore). SO it does need to know the kernel it is
patching...
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up under MacOS on my TiBook.
Never tried it, though...
You could search around; Takashi Oe wrote a tool to set the alarm clock
wakeup on his 7600. Maybe that one is still functional on recent
machines?
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go ;-). snooze -f made
the glowlight go on for the first time opn my TiBook. Yeah! ;-)
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d doesn't seem to have any other adverse effects...
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es.
The keymap setting might be different: if you changed that with the
apropriate tools, its setting sticks ;-)
You'll have to experiment a bit to re-change this...
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inverted. So, no need for a crossover cable if you want
to connect the TiBook to another computer. Alas, it's only a 10/100
device; no Gigabit...
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prove sound?
Thanks to all who contributed to this project ;-)
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and two other xine processes consume around 5%
each.
Patch for mmap is attached (against recent benh 2.4 kernels).
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(like iMac, iBook and
Powerbooks with integrated monitors, and also desktop machines with a
few stabdard resolutions).
Could help newbies quite a bit, I guess And most sample files would
be available between the list members anyway ;-)
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e pmud know about this fact?
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the machine with the lid
closed.
No big issue, I guess.
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On 26 Apr, this message from Peter Cordes echoed through cyberspace:
> On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 11:09:33AM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote:
>> Most interesting is that it has an auto-MDIX feature, i.e. it can detect
>> if RX and TX are inverted.
>
> Cool! Are there any PC c
.4 kernels (have a look at the manpage).
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y it before bying
it. Or be prepared to hack the drivers yourself ;-). I think I have read
about the serial drivers supporting PCI serial cards, but I'm not so
sure about PCI parallel cards.
Or do what I did: use an old 486 (possibly with ISA expansion cards) as
your home office server, provid
Keep in mind that booting MacOS on OldWorlds will wipe the NVRAM anyway.
Makes you wish to remove MacOS completely, but then you'd better have
some alternative way of booting the box (like CDROM...)
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do.
Have fun!
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_everything_ in software, and that takes time. I get around 35% frame
drops on a TiBook G4/400. But you can actually watch the movie ;-)
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tc/X11/fs-xtt/config:
..
# paths to search for fonts
catalogue = /font/dir/file/,/font/dir/anotherfile/,...
..
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et at an error message.
Anyway, should you go for netatalk, I had to solve an access rights
problem to make netatalk spool to lpd. I ended up using TCP to get the
jobs to lpd, instead of netatalk simply writing them into the spool.
HTH
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I had an inkling this might be the case.
>
> More and more, I'm thinking I just need to go ahead and buy that
> Postscript-capable laser printer I've had my eye on
This is probably the best idea for b/w print. If you have
serial-port-equipped Mac running MacOS permanently, you
that same command with other file names, but without
success
Anyone who can quickly help out?
Thanks and cheers
Michel
(yeah, I know this rather belongs on debian-user, but I'm not subscribed
there... sorry about that :-)
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t subscribed
> there... sorry about that :-)
And sorry for the wasted bandwidth :-)
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CSI emulation: if SCSI doesn't provide
this 'audio isn't' info, and the app in questions checks that bit
I've searched a bit about data sheets for the SR-8187 in the TiBook, but
found nothing...
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ems
to give a valid partition number, though I don't know whether using that
would work in OF 1.0.5
Sorry, I currently have no external disks to test...
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/proc/device-tree/bandit/, that is.
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On 17 May, this message from Ethan Benson echoed through cyberspace:
> On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 07:47:56PM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote:
>> Here you are for my 7600/132; one internal SCSI disk, one internal IDE
>> disk on a Promise Ultra/66:
[snip]
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$
d_sends_linux_keycodes
> mouse_button2_keycode
> mouse_button3_keycode
> =
>
> The first three files contains 0, the fourth 97 and 100 the
> fifth. Should I change some of these to correct my problems?
You need to set m
7;s rsync tree on
penguinppc.org (do:
rsync -auvz --delete penguinppc.org::linux-2.4-benh linux-2.4.benh
and you'll get a local copy)
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ardware deficency: platinum _is_ unaccelerated, it's only a bare
flat framebuffer. Apple never got 'round to implement any hardware
acceleration in their own chips.
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vramrc
everything that is relevant to you.
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O port access
somewhat more sane in kernel drivers.
My patches completely leave out the problem of access to IO ports from
user space (as needed by X).
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ard. That includes the Pismo, TiBook, all iBooks,
some iMacs (don't know from when on exactly), and some desktop systems.
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l a bit ambigous; above options are selected in 'Net
devices', 'Wireless', and _not_ under 'Net devices', 'PCMCIA'.
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result is a consistently working system, I'm all for it.
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n only after device wakeup in 2.2.
Yep; ADB rescan is done async in a thread.
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lated by transformer
from the device electronics; those things are quite tough, actually. I'd
be amazed if it were really fried. Also keep in mind it could be the
other side that's fried
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see if there is any
other weirdo jumper that needs to be set. With BigBlue's drives, you
never know they are good stuff, still ;-)
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n-PPC there are no packages+sources for these two programs.
[snip]
> apt-get install freeswan seems to work though.
IIRC, it was uploaded a few days ago with tons of other non-us stuff
following a heavy build session of Michael Schmitz ;-) Thanks!
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drives influenced the hardware designs, or the other way round ;-)
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Ron. And it didn't want to netboot
Gave up on netbooting but I may try again with standards docs at
hand and a sniffer to find out what's up.
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till in OF, the box doesn't
succeed in doing bootp/dhcp/whatever to boot off the net.
This is not running a kernel yet; I'm still in OF land at that point.
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th it too, but since I
> can't compile it
You might want to try the xine .debs here:
http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/xine/
They work reasonably well for me on a TiBook.
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n this point would be welcome, so that we
can react accordingly (change pmud to operate the fan if needed).
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much younger than i386. What can be said
against Intel is that they should have gotten rid of lots of legacy
stuff (at the price of compatibility) a long time ago.
Ah well, such is life ;-)
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_before_ starting MOL.
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t;
(This is on my TiBook).
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werPC ioports and memory:
include port 0x1000-0x10ff, port 0x1400-0x14ff
include memory 0x8040-0x807ff000, memory 0xf300-0xf33ff000
Remove the default ranges. Above is for my TiBook.
For other machines, get these ranges out of a lspci listing.
HTH
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Hi all,
On 8 Aug, this message from Tuomas Kuosmanen echoed through cyberspace:
> On 07 Aug 2001 21:45:48 +0200, Michel Lanners wrote:
>> For me PCMCIA works without problems (AFAICT; only old-style 16-bit
>> PCMCIA tested so far) with BenH's kernels; however don'
gt; # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD is not set
> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD is not set
> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM is not set
> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD is not set
> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DAC960 is not set
> CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=y
> # CONFIG_PARIDE is not set
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_MODES=y
> # CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_DA is
ory, can even be different between different
configs of the same machine, like when there are more or less devices on
the PCI bus at bootup time (which is never the case for notebooks; but
could be in the case of PCMCIA controllers in desktop machines).
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ppc 2.2 kernel would suffer from that
problem, independant of the precise hardware.
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support in 2.4, 2.2 is your best stable solution.
It's a bit slower than 2.4, but that shouldn't matter for your use.
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hould work for sure (I'd be amazed if Apple
used yet another PHY chip on the new IBook especially since the
TiBook's is brand new)
Also, on the TiBook, ethernet was working halfway even though the PHY
chip was marked 'unsupported'... So you might want to try a bit har
it
is...), by connecting TX- on the Mac to TX on the RS232 input, the Mac's
RX- to RX on the RS232, and the Mac's RX+ to GND (important).
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otto wrote:
>>
>> this is a pretty slick way of doing it. but does anyone have a convenient
>> way of switching between multiple locations (with different network
>> passwords, and so on)?
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