Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] can't emerge firefox on ppc

[Alexander Meyer]

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David Holm wrote:
 
 Hello Alexander,
 could you please post the output from `emerge info`?

here you go:


Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/ppc/2004.2, gcc-3.4.4,
glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 ppc)
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System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 ppc 7450, altivec supported
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox:1.2.11
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.90.0.3-r5
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.4.19-r1, 2.6.8.1-r4
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=ppc
AUTOCLEAN=yes
CBUILD=powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
CFLAGS=-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe
CHOST=powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/afs/C /etc/afs/afsws /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo
/etc/env.d
CXXFLAGS=-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe
DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles
FEATURES=autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict
GENTOO_MIRRORS=ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/
ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo
http://www.fhh.opensource-mirror.de/gentoo.org/
ftp://ftp.fhh.opensource-mirror.de/pub/gentoo.org/
rsync://rsync.fhh.opensource-mirror.de/gentoo
http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/
ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/
rsync://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo/
http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo
rsync://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo
http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo
ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo;
PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages
PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp
PORTDIR=/usr/portage
SYNC=rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
USE=ppc X aalib airport alsa altivec bash-completion berkdb
bitmap-fonts browserplugin cdparanoia cdr crypt cscope cups curl decss
directfb dvd dvdread emboss encode esd fam fbcon font-server fortran gb
gd gdbm gif gpg gphoto2 gtk gtk2 imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jack java
jpeg lcms ldap libg++ libwww lirc maildir mbox mikmod motif mozcalendar
mozdevelop mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg mysql nas nasm ncurses network nls
nntp ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcmcia pcsc-lite pda pdflib perl png pnp
python qt readline samba sdl slang smartcard snmp spell ssl tcl tcltk
tcpd tex tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode userlocales
vorbis xine xml xml2 xmms xprint xv xvid zlib video_cards_radeon
userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS,
PORTDIR_OVERLAY


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Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] OT: thermal management diff 2.4 vs. 2.6

[Alexander Meyer]

On Di, Jun 28 2005 at 07:22:33 -0400, Carl Hudkins wrote:
 On Tue June 28 2005 16:34, Stefan Bruda wrote:
 
  Oh, of course therm_adt746x won't load, sorry for not mentioning it.
  There is as far as I know no option in the kernel config for thermal
  management on these machines.  I am clueless as to why is the fan
  behaving differently, it simply shouldn't.
 
  I'm not an expert here, but could it be the kernel is not using some kind of 
 CPU idling when it's not busy?  Maybe the CPU is actually running hotter than 
 it used to.  Just an idea, may not be founded in fact.  ;)
 

Well, if there's no means to control when the fan starts it probably
_is_ something like this. i'll try some earlier 2.6 kernels then since
Stefan earlier stated that this change didn't occur at the 2.4-2.6
switch but somewhere in the early 2.6 series (IIRC before 2.6.7).
i'm hardly using the machine anymore because that goddamn fan is just
too annoying and if i try to compensate by turning up my music the
neighbors will complain after a while ;(



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[gentoo-ppc-user] OT: thermal management diff 2.4 vs. 2.6

[Alexander Meyer]

Hi list,

since i dont't know where else to ask this question i figured i might as
well ask it here.
i'm running gentoo on my tibook 550 (powerbook3,3 that is in
kernelspeak) and noticed that with a 2.4 kernel as well as under macos
the fan hardly ever kicks in, even when the computer gets quite hot
while with the 2.6 kernel the fan wouldn't stop running.

while this aproach is probably bying me some more lifetime for my
computer, it is seriously annoying not to have at least an occasional
moment of silence when sitting in front of the box.

i already tried searching the kerneltree for suspicious expressions like
fan.*control and such but so far without success (meaning i found only
acpi-related stuff).

can someone please give me a hint where else to look or even where else
to ask this question? any help is appreciated!

thanks in advance and best regards,

alexander



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