Re: HFS+ backup tool
"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 > to boot. Can anyone recommend a backup tool for HFS+ partitions > (journal is turned off) that is better than dd + gzip (which > compresses a 12GB partition with 4.1GB of data into 7.8GB)? To answer my own question, Mac OS X's disk utility works fine for this kind of thing, and even adds compression, making the resulting .dmg a nice 1.8GB size. You have to do this from a separate installation, which is easy enough to pull off from MOL and Linux. Andrew > Thanks in advance. > -- Andrew J. Barr Woke up in my clothes again this morning, don't know exactly where I am... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HFS+ backup tool
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 to boot. Can anyone recommend a backup tool for HFS+ partitions (journal is turned off) that is better than dd + gzip (which compresses a 12GB partition with 4.1GB of data into 7.8GB)? Thanks in advance. -- Andrew J. Barr Woke up in my clothes again this morning, don't know exactly where I am... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MOL and the official Etch kernel
I am having a strange timer issue with MOL 0.9.73-SVN, the official 2.6.18-4-powerpc Etch kernel, and Mac OS X 10.4.9 on a Powerbook5,7 (PowerPC 7447A 1.67GHz CPU). Mac OS seems to be running "too fast", e.g. when I shut down or restart the confirmation box's timer runs waaay 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? -- Andrew J. Barr Woke up in my clothes again this morning, don't know exactly where I am... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Mac OS X without destroying Debian
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 William Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I doubt FUSE is capable of reading local devices.. I only know sshfs + > FUSE could read/write remote disks. FUSE reads anything for which someone has written a driver program. This is, at the moment, the only way to access (local) NTFS disks with full read-write privileges from non-Windows operating systems. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Ronald Reagan: America's answer to Inspector Clouseau -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGbf3QhuM+Z62a52oRAqU/AJwLifdvGoDlNiWwtv0UpvafTQdyNQCgpqb2 TMmDfOyaayKQSTPMhQ/wk8U= =QqW1 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Installing Mac OS X without destroying Debian
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I was giving some consideration to installing a small partition with Mac OS X on my Powerbook5,7...mostly for just-in-case usage of features like Radeon TV-out. I hear the Mac OS X installer is extremely unkind to existing operating systems whose developer != Apple. How best to install OS X without trashing Debian? Moreover, what filesystem to choose for interoperability? I hear Mac OS X has FUSE now, so perhaps it can read and write Ext2/3 as there is a FUSE driver for that. Or does Mac OS X have some kernel-mode driver for that available somewhere. And also, what filesystem should I choose in install OS X on? It's not as important as OS X being able to read-write my Linux partition, because that's where I spend the vast majority of my time and I expect to boot into OS X only rarely...so therefore my data will be on my Linux 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. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Ronald Reagan: America's answer to Inspector Clouseau -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGbbwmhuM+Z62a52oRAmAQAKCW24n2WVvoUU3iisujoWm22rnRQQCeJQ0y XkE919qYAX0/5B0nRW36iOM= =d7yC -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Slightly faster h.264 decoder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a 720p h.264/AC3 video file that my PowerPC 7447A (1.67GHz) can *almost* decode in real time. I am using mplayer with the ffmpeg libs from Christian Marillat's repos. Is anyone aware of a PPC or AltiVec-optimized h.264 decoder that could give me the slight performance boost I need to be able to watch this movie? I notice mplayer outputs the the message "No accelerated IMDCT transform found", which I take to mean that there is not an optimized decoder for my platform. Failing an optimized decoder, anyone aware of anything I 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. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) "The plural of anecdote is not evidence." -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGYIDVhuM+Z62a52oRAsZZAKCwiaOQpmJR4N6wVX7KDbZss02cpQCgwtEA TKUs577nIV/SBs08Sm/UnYU= =IJ1s -END PGP SIGNATURE-
latest laptop-detect...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ...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. >.< - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) Ronald Reagan: America's answer to Inspector Clouseau -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGWN1ghuM+Z62a52oRAjgTAKCXXPppFE3Ki6O3CM+gcs/W0HBarACeIaft 1HTJ7cGGCO02jSeXXQgVYXU= =tLx+ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: bcm43xx issues an error message every minute
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 26 May 2007 17:42:54 +0200 "Georg Heinrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I get the following error messages about every minute on the console: > > bcm43xx: PHY connected > bcm43xx: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load > failed bcm43xx: core_up for active 802.11 core failed (-2) > > The HW is: > Apple PowerBook G4 12" (PowerBook 6,8) 1,5 GHz > Airport Extreme, Firmware version 405.1 (3.90.34.0.p18) > > What do I have to do to solve the error? 1) Connect to the Internet (via Ethernet or Bluetooth or whatever). 2) Install the bcm43xx-fwcutter pacakge. Alternately, read the bcm43xx-fwcutter package documentation for information on how to install the firmware off line. > What can I do to stop those error messages showing up every minute > until the error is solved? > > Any hint is welcome. > Thanks in advance, > > G. Heinrich > > > - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) Ronald Reagan: America's answer to Inspector Clouseau -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGWIMYhuM+Z62a52oRAnRMAJ93582Nl7SiZuxQvIUvqouHgxi5zACgkk3/ HX2uqwSCjTzGT4JI6b0D4SA= =z5OY -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Powerbook5,7 (G4 17") and USB 2.0 disk drive
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 23 May 2007 22:50:45 +0200 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The USB specs mention 0.5 A at 5V, so around 2.5W. This is not enough > to drive a harddisk, especially a 3.5" one. It's a mobile (2.5") disk. > This is what makes the firewire solution so much superior to the usb > one, since it can usually provide upto around 18W if i remember well. > Just get yourself an enclosure which provide both USB and firewire, > and use the firewire one on your mac. Are there firewire models that are 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. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) Ronald Reagan: America's answer to Inspector Clouseau -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGVKxrhuM+Z62a52oRApPKAKDXgga/ix0bfQJRa8/NJZN31WtRAQCfVDZJ O+3wTNqdBj8TECGeVoDRqb8= =/Dg/ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Powerbook5,7 (G4 17") and USB 2.0 disk drive
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have an external USB2 disk drive enclosure with a 40GB PATA IDE disk drive in it. It has an odd cable, with USB "A" connectors on both ends and two connectors on the "host" side. I don't know the reason for this, but in my Intel Desktop Board DG965RY (Core 2 Duo EM64T) and my Thinkpad R51 the drive works properly with one -or- two USB connectors plugged in. On the Powerbook, due to the layout of the USB connectors, connecting both plugs is not possible, and the drive does not work with just one. The LED lights up, but the disk just clicks helplessly. The kernel says "new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd" but that's it. It does not identify the device (not visible in lsusb) and it certainly does not allow me access to my data. I plugged this drive (using just one connector) into my partner's computer and it spun up and operated normally as near as I could tell from listening to it (his computer runs Windows and the disk is ext3-formatted). I assume this is a power issue, perhaps the Powerbook USB HCI is enforcing some limit that the other controllers do not? Is there any way to work around this in software, e.g. a kernel patch? Thanks in advance. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) Ronald Reagan: America's answer to Inspector Clouseau -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGVJ83huM+Z62a52oRApjeAJ0XI2tri6jBjBTCFRbxekwpqp2BOACg11Xj IEQFAjOzJX98w9/xN1WGL+w= =VUDf -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: "AIGLX: Screen 0 is not dri capable" on PowerBook G4 12"
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 22 May 2007 20:39:45 +0200 "Georg Heinrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The graphics card is a NVidia GeForce FX Go5200. It is connected to > the AGP bus. Bzzt! Sorry, that's incorrect. Thanks for playing! Seriously, the nVidia cards are unsupported for anything beyond basic modesetting on PowerPC (using an nVidia-supplied driver that is "written in hex") because nVidia does not provide their proprietary driver for PPC. Some day, this will all change. Follow the progress of the intrepid Nouveau crew at this address: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/ - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) Ronald Reagan: America's answer to Inspector Clouseau -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGUzvthuM+Z62a52oRAiAAAJsHdX+mJBdKQ2rjZI3SBcz6gel0vQCfaN19 m+tob/Ga1yBZHnL7ScU1KTQ= =+Ddp -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Intel's Powertop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 13 May 2007 16:00:40 -0400 "Andrew J. Barr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 13 May 2007 19:18:01 GMT > Jack Malmostoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > today I stumbled upon this new project from Intel: > > > > www.linuxpowertop.com > > > > and I have noticed it entered Debian's repository. So I compiled it > > on my iBook and tried to run it, but I didn't get any results. > > The only suggestion that comes out is to configure > > CONFIG_HPET_TIMER=y in my kernel. > > So I have checked for it in the config of my stock 2.6.20 on ppc and > > that option is not even included, while it is set to "y" on my AMD64 > > machine. I therefore assume that it's an x86 specific feature that > > will not be available on ppc? Or is it just a matter of time? > > You need a tickless system (CONFIG_NO_HZ). We don't have dynticks on > powerpc yet. > > I don't think that it's x86-specific, so we should be able to benefit > in a few kernel versions. Also, we'll benefit from bug fixes that result from this program. The utility may need ported--I think it reads some values from ACPI--but nothing critical so it should be possible and in fact fairly easy to port to ppc. - -- Andrew J. Barr (614) 581-3537 (Verizon Wireless) "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." -- Sinclair Lewis, 1935 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGR28ghuM+Z62a52oRAvhuAJ9SczPyfSs4ZxDtxAH0qMreiuiwbACfcdq7 gh60bLZs17EQH+kANgJof8s= =lyc9 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Intel's Powertop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13 May 2007 19:18:01 GMT Jack Malmostoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > today I stumbled upon this new project from Intel: > > www.linuxpowertop.com > > and I have noticed it entered Debian's repository. So I compiled it > on my iBook and tried to run it, but I didn't get any results. > The only suggestion that comes out is to configure > CONFIG_HPET_TIMER=y in my kernel. > So I have checked for it in the config of my stock 2.6.20 on ppc and > that option is not even included, while it is set to "y" on my AMD64 > machine. I therefore assume that it's an x86 specific feature that > will not be available on ppc? Or is it just a matter of time? You need a tickless system (CONFIG_NO_HZ). We don't have dynticks on powerpc yet. I don'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! > > Thanks for your opinions! > - -- Andrew J. Barr (614) 581-3537 (Verizon Wireless) "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." -- Sinclair Lewis, 1935 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGR25ohuM+Z62a52oRAu05AJ9b7k+hOymnlQI6oxor22vmQLUw8ACgihzy +R8+uLVkqt2FjpnIepRvtZk= =YPrY -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Powerbook5,7 shuts down on battery when lid closed
I am experiencing an odd issue with my Powerbook5,7. When the machine is on battery and the lid is closed for some amount of time, the machine shuts down. I haven't seen this happen enough to know exactly what is happening, but I was hoping that someone would recognize what I'm talking about and possibly explain the issue a bit further and maybe a fix. -- Andrew J. Barr (614) 581-3537 (Verizon Wireless) "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." -- Sinclair Lewis, 1935 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
QEMU user mode emulation
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. -- Andrew J. Barr (614) 581-3537 (Verizon Wireless) "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." -- Sinclair Lewis, 1935 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PowerBook disk drive
Can someone tell me why Apple computer hard drives, at least in laptops, are very slow? E.g. is the drive or the controller? Responsiveness in my Powerbook still seems rather bad, and from what I can tell it seems to be much better starting programs for a second time--either an app like Firefox or just logging out and logging back into GNOME, e.g. after disk reads are cached in RAM. Near as I can tell the disk drive I have is a 5400 RPM drive. The hdparm -t numbers with this drive and another 5400 RPM 100GB drive in a Thinkpad are not all that different--30-32 MB/sec in the PB versus 38-40 MB/sec in the Thinkpad--is that difference enough to cause a noticeable responsiveness issue when reading from the disk? I can and will swap out the drives, but I am loathe to open this computer and do major surgery unless absolutely necessary[0]. This is an awesome machine--well-designed CPU 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 -- Andrew J. Barr "Why must I fail at every attempt at masonry?" -- Homer Simpson, "Mom and Pop Art" [AABF15] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Beryl - do I dare?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 15:59 -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Taylor Oliphant wrote: >>> Anyone have Beryl running? I have a powerbook g4 and >>> would love to get it up and running. >> What graphics card? Compiz runs fine on my ATI RV350 with the free >> radeon driver (well, what else?) and these patches: >> >> http://people.freedesktop.org/~daenzer/aiglx-zero-copy-tfp/ >> >> You _need_ these for AIGLX compositing and a discrete graphics card >> (e.g. it's own memory). You will want to throw your nice shiny Powerbook >> across the room if you don't have them and you try to run Compiz or >> Beryl. Trust me. > > Care to make .debs ? :-) Been there done that. Add the key this message is signed with to your APT keyring and add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://www.oakcourt.dyndns.org/~andrew/linux/powerbook/aiglx-zero-copy-tfp ./ # optionally deb-src http://www.oakcourt.dyndns.org/~andrew/linux/powerbook/aiglx-zero-copy-tfp ./ 512Kbps bandwidth max, however, so if it gets slow someone might have to mirror them. Minor caveat: If you want things WRT to upgrades to work normally, pin that repository somehow. I haven't figured out an easy and sane way to keep packages I've made personal changes to higher up on APT's list than the official repos, and I followed policy with regards to non-maintainer uploads (6.5.2-3 to 6.5.2-3.1) and now aptitude/update-notifier wants to "upgrade" mesa to 6.5.2-4 in unstable. The only thing I have figured is to bump the epoch (2:6.5.2-3) which is a bit messy and won't always yield desired results, especially if I end up distributing the packages. At any rate, enjoy. Andrew > Ben. > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGMXlwhuM+Z62a52oRAlPDAKDMbk270Hk5gSFOYTE01XcDpX9U9wCfcgDT CvlCrtmMoeHAYl4JW0OFDWI= =NFMi -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Etch - iBook G4 - no sleep
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Typhoon wrote: > OK, thanks to everyone. > > I reinstalled from the main Debian disk #1 and 'sleep' now works, but > only from the Power Icon on the top panel. > > I presume there is some gdm config that I need to do to get the various > options to show up when using the shutdown menus from the Desktop menu. I'm not sure on this one. The buttons don't show up in the session logout/shutdown boxes in Etch but once I upgrade to unstable I get them. I don't know if these features were actually added in post-2.14 GNOME or just defaults were changed. > Anyway, it works now, even if I don't know why. You're not alone. I have some considerable experience getting broken sleep to work on x86 laptops and even desktops but on my Powerbook5,7 sleep has always worked, even though I don't understand what exactly HAL and gnome-power-manager are doing--there is no /etc/acpi directory here :P suspend-to-disk is not working for me in recent kernels. I'm on 2.6.21 but I think I've observed this issue with 2.6.18. The system goes through it's usual sequence of freezing tasks, freeing memory, and then writing the pages to disk, but before it shuts off there are several BUG() stack traces--at least I think they are BUG()s, they flash by too fast as the machine shuts off seconds later as expected--and I notice the source code mentioned in the stack trace lives under arch/powerpc, hinting at a PowerPC-specific bug in suspend-to-disk in Linux. If you don't prevent it via boot parameters, the machine will attempt to resume after being powered up again, but it will just hang after finishing reading the pages from disk. Andrew > Cheers, > Alan > >> johannes >> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGMW9yhuM+Z62a52oRAvjZAJ9YCw5b5jifoPlb9vx5d7F/T95p5gCgxh32 AKxyPh+UHdGejk5AB5M/HMc= =XSre -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Beryl - do I dare?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Taylor Oliphant wrote: > Nvidia indeed - g4 1.33ghz > > 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 newsletters to let you know how they're coming along: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Nouveau_Companion_18 is the latest. Or like, kick the computer a few times and maybe > it will work? Sorry. Us Linux/PPC folk hate proprietary stuff even more than most people because it won't even work for us. Andrew -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGMV5xhuM+Z62a52oRAmVMAJ9jxo348RmAy3dRmjNUnIHQFzxN+gCeI2t3 cXp30GCHO2tmCg7/TfzuaKg= =5mFK -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Beryl - do I dare?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Taylor Oliphant wrote: > Anyone have Beryl running? I have a powerbook g4 and > would love to get it up and running. What graphics card? Compiz runs fine on my ATI RV350 with the free radeon driver (well, what else?) and these patches: http://people.freedesktop.org/~daenzer/aiglx-zero-copy-tfp/ You _need_ these for AIGLX compositing and a discrete graphics card (e.g. it's own memory). You will want to throw your nice shiny Powerbook across the room if you don't have them and you try to run Compiz or Beryl. Trust me. > Also, if anyone happens to know off hand, is there a > file that loads modules before /etc/modules? > Specifically usbhid? If your query is related to the appletouch driver; recent kernels have a quirk to prevent usbhid from claiming the touchpad...the touchpad works without any manual hackery. > Thanks! > -T > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > - -- Andrew J. Barr Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 (compatible; Icedove 1.5; X11; en-US; Linux 2.6.21-rc7 ppc) (Debian/1.5.0.10dfsg.1) "Why must I fail at every attempt at masonry?" -- Homer Simpson, "Mom and Pop Art" [AABF15] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGMQSUhuM+Z62a52oRAp40AKDaDxq0YmcTr41UTEXfeQzIOcP0PQCfcQbU xD7KXXe6b4yTy/mvqsAysSU= =eior -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
any known issues with the snd-aoa drivers?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In an attempt to pick off the low-hanging fruit before profiling my system to resolve this[0] problem, I'd like to ask if anyone is aware of any issues in the snd-aoa drivers (Onyx codec in a Powerbook5,7) that might cause skipping under load. Thanks in advance. [0] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-April/023882.html - -- Andrew J. Barr | http://www.pridelands.dyndns.org/ "Why must I fail at every attempt at masonry?" -- Homer Simpson, "Mom and Pop Art" [AABF15] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGKAPLhuM+Z62a52oRAoVOAJwPAOxnwv1sGwv8MuF0POKS8Z7CNwCgitzm 7ohDBANX7Wb3tHQWOjpqZtI= =2WLv -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Recommended CPUfreq daemon?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 works best with CPUs that have more than two steps on them, which the PowerPC I have does not. I'd rather not have to configure cpufreqd to my tastes, but if that is what's needed I will. Any suggestions? Thanks, Andrew -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGJU4yhuM+Z62a52oRAk0AAKCtQD5yz/b046QmWHEZOgy/2NBBMwCeLv+D LNzS2ggXGxsL62iNU3Ar26M= =R+Kj -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Responsiveness issue(s)
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 numbers on the PowerBook are not so much lower as to be indicative of being the cause of performance problems. That said, according to Apple's page on this machine[0], this machine has a 5400 RPM disk drive, the same as my 100GB disk for my Thinkpad. Is there any advantage at all to switching out disks that I'm not aware of? Someone else mentioned that the memory bandwidth in this machine is probably lower than my 1.6GHz Pentium-M Thinkpad. Can someone elaborate on this? Is it so much lower that it would cause GNOME, Iceweasel, and Icedove to take noticeably longer than normal to start? I'm frankly surprised that the performance is so poor, because this was a top of the line machine for it's time (late 2005) and with the 2GB of memory it has I'm told it originally cost close to US$ 4,000. My Thinkpad is of about the same era and it seems to perform better, and with only 768MB of RAM. The Thinkpad was a low-mid-market machine (R51 2883-ELU with an extra 512MB of RAM installed), it cost only about US$ 1,000. Perhaps I'm just paying too close attention to the startup times and seeing something that's not there? I know these kind of perceptive problems are no fun to debug because there's not always a clear cause-and-effect... At any rate, I'm crossing over to the dark side for a little while...trying Mac OS X and some other PPC Linux distributions (it has FC6 on it right now) to get a better idea of how the machine performs with other OSes. I much prefer Debian, of course, so I'm going to keep trying to coax full performance out of this machine under everyone's favorite free OS... Andrew [0] http://support.apple.com/specs/powerbook/PowerBook_G4_17-inch_1_67GHz.html -- The 17" SuperDrive model is what I have -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Responsiveness issue(s)
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's HD on your own. Unfortunately it's nowhere like the Macbooks, as you have to disassemble all of your laptop. Well, darn it. I lied. The Thinkpad disk is a 5400 RPM disk drive (at least I think so, the model number starts with HTS54 instead of HTS72...), and the PB's 'hdparm -t' (buffered reads) numbers basically match that of the Thinkpad (30-32 MB/sec on the PowerBook vs. 34-39 MB/sec on the Thinkpad). However, the interesting part is that the 'hdparm -T' (cached reads) numbers are different--Thinkpad gets at least 600 MB/sec, usually closer to 620 MB/sec, PowerBook gets 400 MB/sec or so. Which number is more meaningful? And would swapping disks let me take the 'hdparm -T' number to the PB? Also, the Etch release is a decent bit snappier than my previous mishmash of unstable, experimental and a custom kernel, that's a lesson to be a bit more careful in the future with what I'm installing. I may still upgrade to unstable or at least lenny when that becomes a bit more interesting. Thanks, Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Responsiveness issue(s)
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") hard disks, I could replace the disk drive if it would be faster to use another drive--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... Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Responsiveness issue(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 stock kernel for a while and see if things get better. 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 :) DMA is indeed active. udma5, accoridng to hdparm. However, I am going to to install the Etch release and see how that performs. I have a friend who just did so with an iBook (G3, I think) and is quite pleased. If he was having these problems I think he would have spoken up. Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Responsiveness issue(s)
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 not in the default powerpc kernel from etch). A couple of issues, not sure if they are related: - GNOME takes *forever* to start, from GDM on. Even the init scripts seem slow compared to my 1.6GHz Pentium M Thinkpad, but that could be because I have not installed upstart on this machine yet. This laptop has a 1.67GHz G4 in it, so it's no slouch. It should be faster than the Thinkpad, or at least on par, right? The first time I start Iceweasel and Icedove they take forever to start too, but it seems subsequent startups aren't nearly as bad. - The sound gets skippy on fairly innocuous things like scrolling or tab switching in Iceweasel. I am using Compiz, but this is hardware accelerated and Xorg isn't using CPU like it is doing these effects in software. I have Xorg 7.2 and 6.6.191 of the ATI driver. The hardware is an RV350 (Radeon Mobility 9600 M10). It seems to be mostly isolated to when Iceweasel is running, for some strange reason. On x86 I'd look at some kind of interrupt issue, but I am clueless about PowerPC. Any ideas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help Needed on Etch CD/DVD images
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. While I sympathize with your quandary, I would like to point out that crossposting is generally frowned upon unless there is a very good reason to do it, and if you do the subject matter should be relevant to all mailing lists and recipients--debian-powerpc (the list by which your message showed up in my inbox) is for users of Debian on PowerPC hardware--these are generally high-end IBM workstations and servers and all but the most recent Apple Macintosh desktops and notebooks. I would suggest posting such a query to debian-user, you are more likely to find someone there who will be willing to help you. Good luck, Andrew I therefore want to ask you a favor if possible, to send me the Etch CD set via snail-mail. My Address is : Maxwell Obeng-Yeboah Post Office Box NT 363, New-Town Accra. Ghana, West Africa Don't get soaked. Take a quick peek at the forecast < http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/?fr=oni_on_mail&#news> with theYahoo! Search weather shortcut. < http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/?fr=oni_on_mail&#news> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
