Sergio Brandano wrote: > > Cheers, > Sergio > > (hardware: PowerBook Lombard G3-400) > > 1. Result of booting today's rsync tree: > > Machine check in kernel mode. (regs at cb491bf0) > Caused by (from srr1): Unknown values in srr1 > NIP: D081332C XER: 20000000 LR: D0813318 REGS: cb491bf0 TRAP: 0200 > MSR: 00001030 [IRDRME] > TASK = cb490000[211] 'modprobe' mm->pgd cb59f000 Last syscall: 128 > 2. gmix sets Volume (read external speakers) and Speaker > (read the PowerBook speakers) the way around. The labeling is > misleading, it would be more appropriate to say respectively > "External Speakers" and "Internal Speakers".
This is a problem with most sound mixers on the PowerPC, almost all mixing apps I have tried (aumix, kmix) label External Speakers as Volume and Internetal Speakers as Speaker. This makes sense (well not really :) because most PC (and some Macs) have really bad internal sound that is unlistenable to for long periods of time --- and because most people use the external speaker jack to connect to their monitors, external speakers or stereos. But still it is confusing (especially for Powerbook/iBook/Notebook users) but if you changed it you would probably have to change every app that goes by this convention. <ikk> > The panel applet for the Volume sets the external speakers, > which is not what one wants, at least in this case. That panel applet should probably be customizable -- I can see on a Notebook why you would want this. > 3. GNOME System Information, Detailed Sys info, CPU: > - funny symbols appear I haven't seen this. > - the processor is not displayed Or this. > - the temperature is not displayed I have never seen a program correctly (or at all) display the temperature on the PowerPC -- I don't know if anyone has created a program to harness this functionality on the PowerPC. > - bogomips: 801.18 (PowerBook Lombard 400Mhz) > bogomips from the xterm reports: 526 I haven't seen that bug before. Seems strange to me since doesn't GNOME get it the same way? At any rate I don't use GNOME currently, so I wouldn't really know. > 6. Netscape Communicator/Navigator: great mess, none working. I've noticed that too. I personally ended up on downloading LinuxPPC Inc.'s .ppc.rpm and converting it to a .deb using alien. Obviously this is less then ideal, it's alot of work, you end up with a large monolithic package (unlike some of the debian packages that break parts down, such as keeping the java class files in a seprate package). I should note that that strangely it worked better then installing my rpm on my previously ydl system -- for some reason, about: protocol and the license agreement appeared correctly. Then again, maybe because it was a newer rpm I built it from (although both were Netscape 4.7).
