SMP on 9600 Success; First Time Poster

2002-08-03 Thread Bobby MacGregor
Hey everyone, Recently I bought an old 9600 200MP for $150 from a local Goodwill store. Since I've been a machead for a long time, and have recently been getting involved in *nix (Solaris and Linux) I decided I'd put Linux on it (I was originally looking for a Sun box, but saw this and couldn't p

Re: Bug#153948: Need help with afio on powerpc

2002-08-03 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Big thanks to everybody -- Stephen for writing patches, Dieter for calmly knocking down back out of their socks, and to Koen for cleaning it all up. According to http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=&pkg=afio we are starting to look more golden: * 2.4.7-7 (mipsel) (latest build at Aug 3 1

Re: Bug#153948: Need help with afio on powerpc

2002-08-03 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
All, > Thanks for all the testing of my recent patched version. Good to hear > that it works.. Yep, thanks for all for the great cooperation and feedback, > BUT based on the tests by Stephen and Dieter I now recommend that in > the 2.4.7-7 unstable version, the -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 > -D_LARG

Re: Bug#153948: Need help with afio on powerpc

2002-08-03 Thread Koen Holtman
Hi all, Thanks for all the testing of my recent patched version. Good to hear that it works.. Dirk: with respect to your question >Does that mean that I should undo the powerpc conditional which removes >those two flags, but can leave them for everything else? I made (on purpose) no explicit

Re: KDE 3 and PowerPC (was: Re: KDE 3.0.2 problem)

2002-08-03 Thread nik gaffney
On Saturday 03 August 2002 17:11, Egidio Corsini wrote: > On i386 side kde 3.0.2 is available since june. And 3.0.1 version has some > BIG performance problem with the new qt (3.0.4). I really don't know if and > when kde3 will enter the official unstable distro. Probably we'll have to > ask it to

Re: KDE 3 and PowerPC (was: Re: KDE 3.0.2 problem)

2002-08-03 Thread Egidio Corsini
On i386 side kde 3.0.2 is available since june. And 3.0.1 version has some BIG performance problem with the new qt (3.0.4). I really don't know if and when kde3 will enter the official unstable distro. Probably we'll have to ask it to Chris who prepared one of the first 3.0.1 ppc debs collection. A

Re: PCI bus speed on OldWorld PCI macs

2002-08-03 Thread Michel Lanners
On 2 Aug, this message from Sloopy Malibu echoed through cyberspace: > Here at home I have a B&W G3-500 (384megs RAM OS X 10.1.5) and a 8500/233 > (604e) ( 896Megs Ram Mac OS 9.1) with a KNE110TX 10/100 enet card... And > when the B&W is hooked to my friends iBook it will blow large files back an

Re: Bug#153948: Need help with afio on powerpc

2002-08-03 Thread Dieter Schuster
Tach auch! Am Sam, den 03 August 2002, schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: > On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 03:03:23PM +0200, Dieter Schuster wrote: > > It seems to work without error for me too. I using also the 64-bit > > settings. > > Excellent. Let me contact Norbert Veber who did the >2gb patch for i386 to

Re: Bug#153948: Need help with afio on powerpc

2002-08-03 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 03:03:23PM +0200, Dieter Schuster wrote: > It seems to work without error for me too. I using also the 64-bit > settings. Excellent. Let me contact Norbert Veber who did the >2gb patch for i386 to see if that still works for him, and then -7 gets ready. Dirk -- Good judg

Re: Bug#153948: Need help with afio on powerpc

2002-08-03 Thread Dieter Schuster
Tach auch! Am Sam, den 03 August 2002, schrieb Stephen van Egmond: > Koen Holtman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > The diff file adds some notes in the history file about what I have > > done/still need to do. The diff contains a bit more cosmetic > > improvements on earlier cosmetic improvements t

Re: PCI bus speed on OldWorld PCI macs

2002-08-03 Thread Sloopy Malibu
Although I donĀ¹t know actual numbers on the hardware side of things I can give a few bits of real world info on this... Here at home I have a B&W G3-500 (384megs RAM OS X 10.1.5) and a 8500/233 (604e) ( 896Megs Ram Mac OS 9.1) with a KNE110TX 10/100 enet card... And when the B&W is hooked to my f

Re: Bug#153948: Need help with afio on powerpc

2002-08-03 Thread Stephen van Egmond
Koen Holtman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The diff file adds some notes in the history file about what I have > done/still need to do. The diff contains a bit more cosmetic > improvements on earlier cosmetic improvements than I would like, but > that is life. It compiles pristinely, and runs fl

Re: Debian network installation on IBM RS/6000 44P-170 (POWER3) - HOWTO

2002-08-03 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 04:31:47PM -0500, Rolf Brudeseth wrote: > This HOWTO explains how to perform a network install of Debian 3.0 (Woody) > on an IBM RS/6000 44P-170 workstation. ... > > I got the latest kernel (2.4.18) from: > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ > > I got the ramdis