Hello !
As there are many cheap G5 machines out there, I would like to ask,
whether fan control (meaned, that the system doesn't run hot and not
manually control it) is available and, whether someone does some
Haskell staff (ghc, xmonad and so on) on this machines ?
Thanks for answers.
Hello Brian !
Thanks for your answer.
> Not an OpenBSD developer and only speaking from experience, but I have
> a
> pair of final model Mac Mini G4s (1.5 GHz, 1 GB RAM), and they
> definitely
> spin the fans down at idle and back up during release builds. They run
> cool
> and quiet, I quite lik
Hello Martin !
Thanks for your answer.
> Fan control is left to the firmware and at least on PowerMacs (towers)
> the machines do not run hot.
That is good. On my MacBook Pro (Intel i7) I could make some ham and
eggs ...
> If you want to get one of such machines make sure to pick one with a
> r
Hello Herminio !
Thanks for your answer.
> Craigslist. I got mine for $50
>
> Sent from my iPhone
To far, I try it on a subpage of ebay Germany.
> I find those deals all the time in the US.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
Good to know, thanks.
Hello !
Thanks for your answer.
> The GHC port doesn't work on powerpc.
Any chances (have no machine to try it) to build the community / older
version of ghc ?
FYI tried today -current #132 Dec 12 on a PowerMac7,3, all till X
(including mouse and keyboard) worked.
It was a short try but only bsd.sp shows (sometimes before login,
sometimes after login)
reorder_kernel: kernel relinking failes; see
/usr/share/relink/kernel/GENERIC/relink.log
more /usr/shar
Hello !
I know, that package builds depend on available resources - are there
planned / regularly builds of the -current macppc packages ?
The reason I ask (it is not more then a question) is, that I like to
try a new installation of -current on a second PowerMac G5. The
available (as I wrote thi
Hello !
Thanks for your answer.
> Look at the bulk build reports:
> https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=151358009116029&w=2
>
> The bulk build takes 17 days. If you can't build your own packages on
> powerpc, -stable is probably a better option for your needs.
I run -stable on a second PowerMac
> No, you can't see the version prior to the full bulk build finished
> because sometimes the build doesn't work, the system crashes, etc.
>
Thanks, good to know.
I simple archive the .iso's from the base system as they are
available. The bulk report show's which is the right (if I don't want
to b
Hello !
> I also can't use more than 1,6G of RAM, although there's more in the
machine.
That is normal (I have here 2 DP G5s) because OpenBSD runs only in 32
bit mode (even the G5 is a 64 bit CPU). See
https://www.openbsd.org/macppc.html section History. The max RAM in
the G4 (G3 less) was 2 GB s
; I have an iBook G4 that has a max RAM of 1,5G on hardware-basis which
> makes
> sense and all, but on a G5?!
>
>
> Also, did you see his dmesg? :)
> [...]
> hw.product=PowerMac11,2
> hw.physmem=2684354560
> hw.usermem=*2684342272*
> hw.ncpufound=2
> [...]
>
> 2
Hy !
> With ubuntu 16 I have problem with Nvidia driver I can not start
> correctly, only frame buffer but with Ubuntu and Freebsd I did not
> have any error with Disk and memory is ok. I will test Fedora later ..
I have not seen any RAM / Disk errors using OpenBSD on a dual G5. But
what I know i
Hello !
If you like to know which packages are available see
https://ftp2.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.2/packages/powerpc/index.txt
Change the URL to your prefered mirror / platform. The above link
shows the packages of -release.
Mirrors : https://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html
Or, you can also use
Hello !
> Thanks for the info!!
You are welcome.
> I still testing midori from ports, no binary of any browser, only
> netsurf but it is so limited edition and it is from October 2017 ...
As you are told in your first E - Mail, you are very new to OpenBSD.
No problem. If you read my answer agai
No problem - it wasn't meaned bad. The difference to Linux is, that
OpenBSD has a extreme good documentation. And, many questions are
already answered after reading the FAQ's / manual pages and so on.
Which saves you much time.
Regards,
Christoph
> Hi! Thanks for your patience !! I will take m
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