Re: Processor Speed and /proc/cpufreq

2003-03-03 Thread Stew Benedict
On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Robert Shade wrote: I was reading through the gentoo ppc faq at: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-ppc-faq.xml If you look at part 2 (Laptop Support) you'll see that when apple's laptops boot up they're automatically set at reduced processor speed. I won't repeat

Re: Processor Speed and /proc/cpufreq

2003-03-03 Thread Robert Shade
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc/kernel-benh-2.4.20-5mdk.ppc.rpm Thanks. I updated to this, but /proc/cpufreq is still not there. Could there be some kind of boot option I'm missing? I checked for any relavent modules, but didn't find any. FYI: I was reading

Re: Processor Speed and /proc/cpufreq

2003-03-03 Thread Stew Benedict
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Robert Shade wrote: http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc/kernel-benh-2.4.20-5mdk.ppc.rpm Thanks. I updated to this, but /proc/cpufreq is still not there. Could there be some kind of boot option I'm missing? I checked for any relavent modules, but

Re: Processor Speed and /proc/cpufreq

2003-03-03 Thread Serge Blondin
Steve refer to me, when he talk about getting this work... And I'm pretty sure that is machine dependant like Steve said beceause not all mainboard could support this Serge Robert Shade wrote: http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/cooker-ppc/kernel-benh-2.4.20-5mdk.ppc.rpm Thanks.

Re: Processor Speed and /proc/cpufreq

2003-03-03 Thread Robert Shade
Serge Blondin wrote: Steve refer to me, when he talk about getting this work... And I'm pretty sure that is machine dependant like Steve said beceause not all mainboard could support this What kind of hardware do you have? Are there any other laptop users that out there that can

Re: Processor Speed and /proc/cpufreq

2003-03-03 Thread Christian Walther
On my PowerBook G4 Ti 867MHz with 2.4.20-benh-5mdk it's there and works. It allows setting the frequency between 667 and 867 MHz, and in a quick test with the Mesa demos (without hardware accelerations) it shows. -Christian

Re: Processor Speed and /proc/cpufreq

2003-03-03 Thread Robert Shade
Christian Walther wrote: On my PowerBook G4 Ti 867MHz with 2.4.20-benh-5mdk it's there and works. It allows setting the frequency between 667 and 867 MHz, and in a quick test with the Mesa demos (without hardware accelerations) it shows. Hmm.. That's really strange. I have the 12 version of

Re: Processor Speed and /proc/cpufreq

2003-03-03 Thread Robert Shade
Hmm.. That's really strange. I have the 12 version of that (non-Ti) I wouldn't think that the MB hardware could be that different. Well to answer my own question, I guess they might. http://www.brodo.de/cpufreq/kernel_ppc.html rob (Wishing he was a kernel guru)

Re: Processor Speed and /proc/cpufreq

2003-03-03 Thread Robert Shade
I apologize for spamming. I should learn to research more before pushing Send. According to this: http://ppc.bkbits.net:8080/linuxppc_2_4_benh/diffs/arch/ppc/platforms/[EMAIL PROTECTED]|src/|src/arch|src/arch/ppc|src/arch/ppc/platforms|hist/arch/ppc/platforms/pmac_cpufreq.c 4 weeks ago cpufreq

Re: Processor Speed and /proc/cpufreq

2003-03-03 Thread Robert Shade
Sure, Thanks. I'm not updating the BOOT kernel though, unless absolutely necessary. I'm trying to get an RC1 ISO out, and I don't want to go back over that portion, as I currently seem to have 2 good BOOT kernels (benh mdk, 3 I guess counting rs6k). Yeah sure. Installation shouldn't be resouce

Re: Processor Speed and /proc/cpufreq

2003-03-03 Thread Stew Benedict
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Robert Shade wrote: Speaking of BOOT though, in case you havn't done so already, yaboot should be updated (At least for the next release). Although you can force it using OF, the usual holding down the C method is broken (at least for me it was). It might be

Re: Processor Speed and /proc/cpufreq

2003-03-03 Thread Serge Blondin
Robert Shade wrote: Serge Blondin wrote: Steve refer to me, when he talk about getting this work... And I'm pretty sure that is machine dependant like Steve said beceause not all mainboard could support this What kind of hardware do you have? Are there any other laptop users that

Re: G4 PowerBook 12 how to reboot

2003-03-03 Thread Stew Benedict
On Sun, 2 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, How can I reboot my G4 PowerBook 12 during the installation process without removing the power supply and battery? The ON/OFF button doesn't work. Any ideas? Thanks, Ctl-Apple-F2 (possibly + Fn) reboot or ctl-alt-del or halt

Re: G4 PowerBook 12 how to reboot

2003-03-03 Thread Charles Carroll
All, For those really frustrating moments when you can't seem to get the system to reboot or power down. Here is the apple URL for resetting the PMU for various ibooks/powerbooks. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449 Which is the newer systems.

Re: Processor Speed and /proc/cpufreq

2003-03-03 Thread Charles Carroll
All, This is the Apple System Profiler dump on my Powerbook Hardware Overview: +--+ | | Machine speed : 1.0 Ghz | Bus speed : 133 MHz | Number of processors

Re: Processor Speed and /proc/cpufreq

2003-03-03 Thread rshade
This is the Apple System Profiler dump on my Powerbook If you do a: cat /proc/cpuinfo as root you will probably see it actually running at a lower speed. From what I've read, all recent Apple laptops start up at reduced speed. rob

Re: Processor Speed and /proc/cpufreq

2003-03-03 Thread Serge Blondin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the Apple System Profiler dump on my Powerbook If you do a: cat /proc/cpuinfo as root you will probably see it actually running at a lower speed. From what I've read, all recent Apple laptops start up at reduced speed. rob U are right, this a power

9.1 beta 2 on G4 PowerBook 12 some questions

2003-03-03 Thread vgeloven
Hi all, I've been reading a lot of emails in this list but was so far unable find info on these things for installing 9.1 beta 2: - what should I select fro bus /usb - what should I select for sound - what should I select for X-Windows - how do I format the bootstrap partition by hand - how

Re: 9.1 beta 2 on G4 PowerBook 12 some questions

2003-03-03 Thread Stew Benedict
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've been reading a lot of emails in this list but was so far unable find info on these things for installing 9.1 beta 2: - what should I select fro bus /usb Shouldn't need to select anything - usb is built in. If the installer

Re: Processor Speed and /proc/cpufreq

2003-03-03 Thread Robert Shade
rsyncing from BenH now. Where are the kernel-benh packages? I can't find them in the RPMS or contrib RPMS directories of my mirror (carroll). rob