For what it's worth, this seller on eBay
(http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=pale-luna&include=0&since=-1&sort=3&rows=25)
is selling a couple 128MB sticks for about $30 each - might be worth
checking out. Sorry about the long link.
NRH
This is with a 604 processor, right? Then yes, you should try to get a
cheap cache DIMM from Ebay. For the 7x00/8x00 machines cache increased
performance by up to 20%.
I've got a cache card from my 7600 I'm getting rid of. You can
contact me off list if you want - otherwise I'll sell it on eBa
To elaborate on this a little more, I'm in the process of installing,
and have bootx just sitting on my hard drive, not in extensions or
anything. Find the kernel you need, put it in the Linux Kernels
folder as stated, and put ramdisk.image.gz somewhere where you can
find it and select the "bo
I'd like to put an IDE controller in by 7600/G3 this summer, and I
noticed a couple people on the list are using Promise cards. They're
fairly cheap, and I'm curious. :^) Is there anything special I
should know before I get one? I'm currently looking at the TX2 Ultra
100 card, but that's subj
I've tested the Ultra TX2/133 (PDC20269) on just about every PPC
imaginable 40x/44x/82xx/7xx/74xx. It's rock solid and fast.
Performance relative to CMD64x chipsets is excellent.
That's very good to hear! Thanks guys for the quick response. Ok,
about drivers, is there support already in the
Ok, not being an audio person, what is the differnce between a line
level socket and a headphones socket?
A line level source has a higher voltage or something, and/or runs at
a different impedance. I think. :^)
Is a headphone socket for devices without build in amplifiers? and a
line level
I think FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit can do this. I don't know if the
"personal" edition can do it or only the full version, though.
I believe it can, I got a copy of v.4.0.1 with a Linux/PPC distro a
while ago. The only thing is, you have to make sure all your data is
at the beginning of the part
> Norton speed disk (from Utilities 4.0), for instance, puts the system
stuff/apps at the beginning of the partition, free space in the
middle, and files at the end. Don't ask me why. ;^)
It depends on its settings. You can change them to get the
result we're looking for.
Well, pin a tai
Doesn't Apple maintain mkLinux? It's linux running on top of Mach.
I had it installed on my 8500 a few years ago.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if they had mkLinux running on it, as
it would be another way to test the hardware.
I could be wrong, but I didn't think Apple was doing anything w
Small semantic question: is it correct to call these babies PowerPC?
Aren't they really POWER chips? Why?
According to the article, yes, they are (or will be) PowerPC - they
use the PPC 970 (aka G5). The 970 was derived from the POWER CPUs,
but it's fully PPC and is more efficient po
> Also, to ask my own question, did I hear someone say recently on this
list that IBM might use Apple chips in it's PPC machines? Or am I
confusing things?
That would be silly: Apple doesn't make chips, it just designs them,
has them manufactured by other companies, and sells them (neatly
p
> > What is this no-video-driver stuff ?
There is a checkbox in BootX labeled 'No Video Driver'. This
causes append="video=ofonly" to be added to the boot parameters.
For the 2.4 kernels, at least on my box, I need _not_ to have
> that boot parameter, where for the 2.2 kernels I did.
So,
(Oops, sent it to poster instead of list. Sorry.)
completly untested on oldworld. The first step would probably be to
build a kernel 2.4 (needed for devfs) which fits on a floppy, as we were
told that this is the only way to boot oldworlds without using
proprietary software.
Ok, let me kno
Yes, the LinuxPPC 2000 CDs are burned using Toast, which has the
drivers for making it bootable on an oldworld box. If you look at
the partition map on the CD (yes, Mac CDs are partitioned) you'll
find something like this (this is the LinuxPPC 2000 MacWorld edition):
Ok, that's what I was afrai
I don't know what linuxppc does to make these cds bootable on oldworlds.
If it really only used miboot and no proprietary driver partitions, then
this would be great! Does someone else know more?
I doesn't look like it'll work. See the other reply from Brad Boyer
- he pointed out that the Linu
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 07:18, Colin Leroy wrote:
It lets the kernel report a right-click when KEY+Left click are pressed,
where KEY is the KEY specified by echoing its code to the /proc entry.
It'd be even cooler if this was extended to have an option for middle
click as well :)
I agree, may
They can't be faked, but they could be written properly. Apple didn't
provide their own drivers to third parties anyway. Anyone writing a
partitioning tool was supposed to provide their own. So, if you used
a third party product to setup your disk, you don't have the official
Apple drivers. This i
I'm sure people would appreciate getting the 1.4 version
of the Sun JDK running more than being able to boot oldworld Macs
from a CD using only free software.
Quite. Priorities - recon there's more people who could _benefit_
from better Java than a slightly easier oldworld installation. The
> It it fails, I will format my internal IDE disk using Apple's Drive setup
(it now contains Debain, but I want to repartition it anyway), and try
booting from there.
I don't have a README or INSTALL file, so am I correct in the above steps to
take, or do I miss anything?
There's a bunch
Also, whoever can work on it to make it part of the d-i build: I put
the script to generate the floppy miBoot image (stolen from
boot-floppies), and the necessary pieces, plus the resulting floppy
image, at
http://members.cox.net/toff1/miBoot.tgz
The floppy boots and loads the woody root.bin on
All right, after a week of poking my brain has about had it. :^) I'm trying
to get my Epson Stylus Photo 700 working with Cups, I'm running debian/sid
(mostly up to date) on and oldworld pmac, homebuilt kernel 2.4.23-pre5-ben0.
As far as I can tell, I've got Everything I Could Ever Need(tm) in
(Sorry, forgot subject last time.)
All right, after a week of poking my brain has about had it. :^) I'm trying
to get my Epson Stylus Photo 700 working with Cups, I'm running debian/sid
(mostly up to date) on and oldworld pmac, homebuilt kernel 2.4.23-pre5-ben0.
As far as I can tell, I've got
On Monday 17 November 2003 21:33, Christian Leimer wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I think you must set up the serial port of your printer.
> Try these commands in a terminal as root:
> stty 230400 raw -echo cstopb stty ixon ixoff S1 or S0 are the ports to one of them your printer is connected.
> Try cups.
> I
I'm running Sid. Just did an apt-get update/upgrade (via Synaptic) and now
dpkg fails with error:
wallace:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -i dpkg_1.10.15_powerpc.deb
dpkg - warning: downgrading dpkg from 1.10.18 to 1.10.15.
(Reading database ... 94666 files and directories currently installed.)
Pr
RH
On Friday 21 November 2003 16:58, Nathanael Hasbrouck wrote:
> I'm running Sid. Just did an apt-get update/upgrade (via Synaptic) and now
> dpkg fails with error:
>
> wallace:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -i dpkg_1.10.15_powerpc.deb
> dpkg - warning: downgrading dpkg
On Wednesday 03 December 2003 09:49, Domingo Fiesta Segura wrote:
> Do you know if is going to be like this for long? It's a pity because I
> can't do a clean first run. To have the desktop working I have to run the
> startkde, then kill the X server (Ctrl + Alt + Backsp) and then launch the
> des
On Monday 08 December 2003 19:00, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
> I have rolled 1000 kernels on my x86 machines, and have one last PPC
> machine to finish. Where do I get the standard kernel sources? Do I use
> the same sources from kernel.org?
I personally usually use rsync instead of bkbits, you ca
On Thursday 11 December 2003 03:57, Gunnar von Boehn wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> First of all Many thanks for MOL -
> its a great piece of software.
>
>
> I have MOL installed on an iBook running in Yellow Dog Linux (3.0).
> The MAC OS X 10.2.8 installation runs fine in MOL.
>
>
> I wanted to us
On Thursday 27 January 2005 1426, somebody named Philipp Kaeser inscribed
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> additionally, concerning the discussion that evolved
> around money transfer and paypal accounts recently,
> I want to stress again that I'd happily make use of
> my paypal account and then, place a creditcar
On Saturday 14 May 2005 0814, somebody named vinai inscribed this message:
> Take a look at this page:
>
> http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/OSX/sonnet_ide_cards_and_10_2.html
>
> According to the information there, the Trio has a Promise chipset, and
> I believe the linux kernel does indeed have supp
(I don't think I sent this earlier, but if I did, sorry...)
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...
> Does your card allow you to boot from an IDE device? Is it well
> supported under Linux and MacOS X? Unfortunately, finding IDE cards is
> not easy he
On Sunday 22 May 2005 0007, somebody named Mike S inscribed this message:
> Eddy Petrisor wrote:
> anyone tried it on ppc yet? Might be nice to have an alternative to
> yaboot :)
> >>>
> >>>Given how crappy is grub is on i386 I'd avoid in on other platforms
> >>> at any cost.
> >>
> >>What
On Monday 31 May 2004 2127, somebody named Jim Ricken inscribed this
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> Hello everyone!
> I am brand new to your list
> I was thinking about installing Debian on My Mac 8600 that has been
> upgraded with a sonnet G4 400 mhz proc card.
> As of the moment I am using Yellowdoglinux 3.0 which
Once upon a time (Tuesday 01 June 2004 0009), in a land far, far, away,
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> This is not meant as flame-bait, but an honest question: aside from the
> open vs proprietary debate, what reasons can readers give for the
> average desktop co
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 1846, somebody named Sean Schertell inscribed this
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> Finally, an unrelated tip: If I remember right, the installer will ask
> you to select which packages you want to install using dpkg and
> something else -- don't bother with them except for apt-get. Once
> you'
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 1817, somebody named James Ricken inscribed this
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> Hi All I am sort of in a jam
> I am trying to install debian on a Mac 8600 upgraded with a sonnet G4
> 400mhz proc card.
> I am using the new Debian sarge installer.I got my hd partioned
> Everything went well un
On Friday 03 December 2004 0338, somebody named Sergio Paracuellos
inscribed this message:
> El jue, 02-12-2004 a las 23:04 +0100, Giuseppe Sacco escribió:
> > Il giorno mer, 01-12-2004 alle 19:37 +0100, Pablo Gil ha scritto:
> > > 2.6.8. I've been told that this a really bad kernel for cd writing
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> Derrik,
> Do you personally have planb working on your PM? If so, what
> disto / version and what kernel
Well, I'm not Derrik, but I'll try to help anyway. :^) AFAIR, you'll need
to use a 2.4 kernel,
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 09:05, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> Hi all,
> today I rsync'd from linux-2.4-benh and I tried to compile the kernel. I
> get some errors that I cannot fix. Could anyone help me?
>
> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4-benh/include -Wall
> -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs
Ok, I've got a little conundrum here - as noted in the "cannot compile latest
2.4-benh kernel" thread [1], 2.4.23-ben1 sources were having trouble
compiling for some people. I also have pretty much the same problem
compiling 2.6.0-ben1. Error messages are slightly different, but both
basicall
On Monday 22 December 2003 01:18, sloopym wrote:
> to get it to compile just add 'Support for PMU based Macintosh' (i.e.
> Powerbook/iBook) in the macintosh section... i do believe benh is aware
> of this as i spoke with someone about it and they said they were going
> to talk to him about it (amon
On Monday 22 December 2003 21:30, Nathanael Hasbrouck wrote:
> On Monday 22 December 2003 01:18, sloopym wrote:
> > to talk to him about it (among other things...which also reminds me,
> > dont add support for powermacintosh floppy drives... it wont compile
> > then either
On Thursday 08 January 2004 12:24, somebody named christian funk inscribed
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> > - reboot zapping the PRAM and the press option-command-o-f to boot
> > into the OF, if it doesn't work try again, you want the OF settings
> > before MacOS touches them
>
> Carful! This is likely not to wo
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> On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 22:24:20 -0500
>
> Nathanael Hasbrouck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Well, no, what MacOS does on these boxen (I know, I'm typing from one)
> > is to rese
Dang, hit reply instead of reply to list - sorry about the private mail Brad.
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 06:46:40PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > I've replaced the original SCSI CD-ROM drive (2-x speed) with a SCSI
> > CD-R/W drive (32-x speed) [[Aside: The MacOS9 CD driver won't talk to
> > this C
On Thursday 15 January 2004 16:36, somebody named Rick Thomas inscribed this
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> It's worth a try, and I'll try it.
>
> But I still think I've got problems once the kernel loads. After all,
> BootX can do that part OK, and quik isn't going to do anything more than
> BootX does. What expla
On Friday 16 January 2004 00:21, somebody named Rick Thomas inscribed this
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> Thanks Nathanael!
No problem. :^) Now I'll just resend this to the list ;^)
> So ... How do I get my 832x624 video mode back? (And get startx
> to work again?) (8-\)
Try fbset and see if settings hold o
On Saturday 17 January 2004 19:34, somebody named Rolando Abarca inscribed
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> what's the latest kernel that will work with BootX & 7200?. I tried
> several of the 2.4.x family (I was hoping to install sarge and then update
> to 2.6) but all with the same result: a black screen after p
On Sunday 01 February 2004 09:25, somebody named Matijs van Zuijlen inscribed
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> Hi all,
>
> Now and again, I'm suffering from stuck keys on my iBook. It's mainly
> the cursor keys. Pressing them again will make them unstuck, so it seems
> the key release is missed somehow.
Huh, I wo
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> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >>Anyway, I'm back to having it crash during install. This time I
> >> got as far as the dhcp initialisation (which went ok, according to my
> >> dhcp server log). I then got th
On Thursday 01 April 2004 0706, somebody named Dave Turner inscribed this
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> It has been hard work but I now have a Rev A iMac dual-booting MacOS9
> and Debian 3.0r2. I am using the 2.4.18-newpmac kernel. I have not
> installed X windows. I have searched the mail archives and read many
> e
On Thursday 01 April 2004 0836, somebody named Martin-Éric Racine inscribed
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> On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Dave Turner wrote:
> > It has been hard work but I now have a Rev A iMac dual-booting MacOS9
> > and Debian 3.0r2. I am using the 2.4.18-newpmac kernel. I have not
> > installed X window
On Thursday 01 April 2004 2031, somebody named Ron Murray inscribed this
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> ... and that's exactly what happened. I removed the PCI SCSI board,
> disconnected power from the SCSI drives, then connected an old SCSI
> drive to the other SCSI bus and powered it all up. The installer lock
On Saturday 08 May 2004 1221, somebody named Helge Kreutzmann inscribed
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(snip)
> I boot the kernel, and it stops at:
> VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k init 4k chrp 8k prep
> INIT: version 2.85 booting
> Loading /etc/console/boottime.
On Wednesday 12 May 2004 0409, somebody named Eric D. Hedekar inscribed
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> Hi, I'm completely new to linux and I'm trying to bring some sense of
> clarity to it all. I want to run a dual boot system with OS9 and Linux
> on my Umax S900 (oldworld mac clone). The main purpose of my wo
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