I have just had access to a brand new iMac, and it just feels
good to have such a snappy machine; with a better OS such as GNU/Linux
-- Mac OS X still freezes for short periods, specially when using
QuickTime for playing streams -- it could be serious competition.
With Apple not supporting
I'm starting out on a PowerMac dual G5. It comes pre-formatted with the
OS, and I'll probaly reformat it to my liking, but I am wondering how I
can set up the partitioning. I want to use various flavors of Linux
(YDL, gentoo, and debian, maybe knoppix) and FreeBSD.
a little off topic but im n
the question of linux on dual g5s is so regular
im wondering if someone could ut together some
documents and link them off the debian ports page
the existing linked documents were invaluable in
my first few times of putting linux on mac hardware
(much like the i386 install docos), so hat goes
of to
someone buy me one, and i volunteer to play around with it
Dean
Colin Leroy wrote:
On 15 Jan 2005 at 11h01, Richard L. wrote:
Hi,
Debian PPC that works on MAC Mini would be awsome.
I'm guessing Mac mini shares a lot with latest G4 ibooks. We'll know for
sure when someone tries it :)
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dont rule out there being a physical connection problem
interferance from other devices might be causing the problem
do other programs transmit data at a suitably high transfer
rate?
Dean
Bjorn Johansson wrote:
Hello!
I have a problem here. I'm running Sarge on two computers
in a small local networ
pegasosii has no true AGP? *shudder*
and to think i was planning on buying on
how many people are using pegasos machines?
Dean
On Sat, January 22, 2005 11:48 pm, Sven Luther said:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 11:23:57AM -0500, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>> On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 11:03 +0100, Bartosz Soko
providing proper
agp support. making my hard earned (ok thats debatable,
i work in IT) cash less likely to transfer to their accounts
i can probably get a second hand g4 1ghz for cheaper
anyway... *shrug*
Dean
On Sun, January 23, 2005 12:08 am, Dean Hamstead said:
> pegasosii has no true AGP? *shu
> For linux Radeon's are prefered. the new radeon 9250 are perfect matches i
> think, i would not invest in more expensive cards. The Voodoo, well, it
> was
> never all so well supported on powerpc, and X has trouble driving them.
>
>> so they have weezled their way out of providing proper
>> agp s
> as 9700/9800, but not the 9600/9550 ones. There are no 3D drivers above
> the
> 9250 ones anyway, so a 9250 with 256MB of ram like the one sapphire build
> is a
> perfect match (an i think it is even fanless).
that woudl explain why they only sell ati 9200's. the world makes sense
again ;)
>> T
has anyone even put linux on the mac-mini yet?
Dean
On Tue, January 25, 2005 12:42 am, linuxx said:
> Anyone know if is posible boot this machine without keyboard,mouse and
> monitor of course after install linux in it , and how it work under
> debian-ppc ?
> I would like to get one to have 24h/d
wouldnt be tax
deductable anyway (i think, im not american)
so like, 9 or so more people and bam, ordered.
Dean
On Tue, January 25, 2005 12:44 pm, Dean Hamstead said:
> has anyone even put linux on the mac-mini yet?
>
> Dean
>
> On Tue, January 25, 2005 12:42 am, linuxx said:
>&
thats $150
Dean
On Tue, January 25, 2005 11:56 pm, Kevin B.Hendricks said:
> Hi,
>
> Put me down for $50 contribution too to get Ben a mini Mac.
>
> Kevin
>
> On Jan 24, 2005, at 8:51 PM, Dean Hamstead wrote:
>
>> Actually, ive been meaning to make some sort of con
chers (which would be the way to go). just
buy the gift voucher and send it to ben.
thoughts?
(ill add up the pledges so far later today - im kind
of running in and out)
Dean
On Wed, January 26, 2005 5:22 am, Barry Hawkins said:
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would seem that sound doesnt work and the hard disk is
a laptop hard disk
(5400rpm, 2mb sounds laptop to me)
Dean
Tommy Trussell wrote:
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:44:15 +1100 (EST), Dean Hamstead
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
has anyone even put linux on the mac-mini yet?
Here's a blog of a
thus far we have (im assuming US dollars here people)
Dean Hamstead
$50
Keving Hendricks
$50
Barry Hawkins
$50
Harvey Ussery
$50
Dylan Beaudette
$10
Philip Kaeser
$50
Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
$50
so $310, we are about 4 donations short
Dean
Dean Hamstead wrote:
Actually, ive been meaning to make some
money from a different nice market. ie, those of
us that cant afford g5's and usually buy old mac gear off ebay. ;)
Dean
Tommy Trussell wrote:
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 22:14:49 +1100, Dean Hamstead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
would seem that sound doesnt work and the hard disk is
a laptop hard di
idea!!
I can give you $40. But how can I send you the money? Western Union
takes $9.50 away. You would get ~$30 in the end. How does all the others
send you there money?
bye
Roland Wegmann
Am Mittwoch, den 26.01.2005, 22:19 +1100 schrieb Dean Hamstead:
thus far we have (im assuming US dollars here p
First: Great idea!!
I can give you $40. But how can I send you the money? Western Union
takes $9.50 away. You would get ~$30 in the end. How does all the others
send you there money?
bye
Roland Wegmann
Am Mittwoch, den 26.01.2005, 22:19 +1100 schrieb Dean Hamstead:
thus far we have (im assuming US do
the other thing is, it wouldnt make sense to western union money
transfer it to me as im in australia.
What's the problem with Australia, BTW? Are you aware that Ben is living
in Australia ATM?
No im not stalking him ;)
thats great that he is. are you ben? where? probably next door :)
thats grea
can you confirm that, $100 ?
Deab
Philipp Kaeser wrote:
hej,
count me in for another $50.
ideally it would be good if apple's store had some sort
of method of ordering and paying off. although they may
have figt vouchers (which would be the way to go). just
buy the gift voucher and send it to ben.
So -- unfortunately, but as I am just a poor PhD student --
it's "just and only $50". sorry for the misunderstanding!
thats why i asked ;)
Dean
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could be opengl related
Dean
Mauro wrote:
Anyone out there aware of lockups on the slot loading iMacs initiated
when xscreensaver and sarge's default xserver are installed?
I'm interested if anyone is aware of the cause, or does no one run
debian and X on these machines?
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ical is a macosx application?
the callender plugin for the mozilla suite can do ical files etc
and is functionally identical or superiour to ical.
the stand alone calendar - sunbird - isnt as stable as running
as a plugin. i dont think sunbird is available for ppc. but the
plugins are platform inde
due to the overwhelming sucess of the "Get a minimac for ben" project
and requests now for getting him a g5. I have now decided to ask
for interested parties to make pledges towards buying ben a g5.
The best option is to buy him a new imac g5 17" 1.8ghz
which will cost us$1500, or for the same pric
turns out im in the same country as ben, or maybe ben is in
the same country as me. i suppose that depends whos a citizen :)
Dean
Nathanael Hasbrouck wrote:
On Thursday 27 January 2005 1426, somebody named Philipp Kaeser inscribed
this message:
additionally, concerning the discussion that evolved
While getting me machines is a good idea (hint hint hint :) , it's
mostly useful when those represent a significant change in the HW
design. When they don't (like the minimac), it's a nice toy that I can
put to good use, but the linux support itself doesn't require me to have
access to the HW more
well quick keeps wanting to take over when i apt-get upgrade
historically ive just used yaboot happily.
any thoughts on changing over?
Dean
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ill just remove the package then
Dean
Ruben Pollan wrote:
http://penguinppc.org/bootloaders/quik/
Quik is for OldWorld Macintosh and yaboot is for NewWorld Macintosh.
El Lunes, 31 de Enero de 2005 14:07, Dean Hamstead escribió:
well quick keeps wanting to take over when i apt-get upgrade
ben mentioned some thoughts he had on improving the
driver, many of which (or mainly from what i read)
involved dividing up the driver into
chipset groups... something like that
as obviously not every mac has the same sound hardware
but for some wierd reason we just have an all in one
driver (which
Wouldn't it be a good idea to place a bounty to encourage Ubuntu PPC
developers to get around fixing snd-powermac for all Mac PPC chips?
Sorry but I failed to parse your message.
Are the Ubuntu people setting a bounty? Or you want us to set a bounty so that
Ubuntu people can fix the problem and g
05-02 at 13:08 +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote:
Wouldn't it be a good idea to place a bounty to encourage Ubuntu PPC
developers to get around fixing snd-powermac for all Mac PPC chips?
Sorry but I failed to parse your message.
Are the Ubuntu people setting a bounty? Or you want us to set a boun
point. It
should definitely be a ppc distro if not debian/ubuntu.
On Sat, 2005-05-02 at 14:25 +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote:
im talking about suse supporting alsa
Dean
Mauro wrote:
There is no such thing as suse ppc and there hasn't been for a few
versions. Things have to get tested after po
the official pay pal account is... [EMAIL PROTECTED]
which is ben's 'australia' pay pal account. there is
no middle man, so your donations go straight to the
man himself.
and here is a list of the kind people who have pledged to help
out.
Dean Hamstead
$50
Keving Hendricks
$50
Ba
or get out your electron microscope and some really small probes
and start reverse engineering the chips ;)
powerpcs are such a great cpu, alas the hardware attached seems
to be the playing ground of closed door hardware development.
did you get your mac mini yet ben?
Dean
Sven Luther wrote:
On Thu
given that ben paid a little out of his pocket
im sure it will payback a little and still count
ben will no doubt still be warmed by your donation ;)
looking forward to seeing some pics and some results
Dean
On Fri, February 11, 2005 7:47 pm, Philipp Käser said:
> hej ben,
>
>> Ok, I've revived
which model and what options did you buy?
Dean
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 10:41 +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote:
or get out your electron microscope and some really small probes
and start reverse engineering the chips ;)
powerpcs are such a great cpu, alas the hardware attached
the stock debian 2.6 kernel should work fine
works on my clamshell ibook, which is close enough to identical
to yours
you may just need to install the apm_emu module, the snd-powermac
module and... well that should be about it. modem support is
now in the kernel, not a module as for 3d acceleration
what are the advantages of using mol instead of dual-bool?
Running several operating systems simultaneously, and being able to
run earlier versions of Mac OS on newer hardware.
virtual machines always have advantages and disadvantages over
dual booting. mol isnt a true virtual machine as it does
right? I'm not happy with nvida's proprietary drivers but in my eyes
they are better than
nothing if you need 3D. Even if Broadcom produces proprietary drivers,
it would be a step
forward in my opinion. I know we are a small market (Linux PPC users)
but I still can't
imagine they would pass up t
The petition is a great place to point that individual once he is willing to
listen however
the listening part is what's going to take work. I think we need to target a
few key
individuals rather than shout at the company name.
Agreed - if you can use your contact to get any further, I'll buy yo
can we please get these scanning patches into the debian kernels
upstream into the main linus official would be nice, but if we can
settle it into the debian releases it gives us a 'standard' to
work from and adds credibility to getting it into the main
kernel tree
give me scanning and dont make me
ben machine
did you get the minimac yet?
i just want to express more hero worship at this point in the hope
that it will motivate you to write more great code so i can continue
to be free of x86's and be super geeky
im sure one day ill be able to release some code that will help
someone, but for no
so ben is fixing things already
mwwoohahaha, my scheme to have someone fix problems before i buy one
is working better than i could have dreamed!*
Dean
* if ben gets airport express going i think hell recieve more beer
than any man ever before
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 01:
http://www.nl.debian.org/ports/powerpc/history
i think that our little group effort to get ben a minimac should be
noted on this fine page
Dean
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does anyone know why gnome would be demanding 24 bit color.
i would rather 16bt 800x600 over 24bit 640x480!!
i cant find anytihng in ~/.gnome* /usr/share/gnome/* etc
Dean
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thats kind of the wierd thing
gdm is happy with less colors more pixels. then gnome fires up and ruins
everything
kill gdm and use startx
get nice little X cursor, gnome starts and the res goes all stupid
im willing to admit metacity could be at fault here.
Dean
vinai wrote:
does anyone know why
benh still gets my vote as favourite ppc developer
hmm i think im getting a complex here
Dean
david wrote:
According to
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/0,39023165,39183867,00.htm
The ppc community looks like it has added some development muscle to its
linux component..
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This is ooold news... I think Linus has been using the G5 as his main
machine for about a year or so. I don't know about the impact of that
for ppc64, but I think it's been about zero for ppc32 so far.
As I recall (and I think maddog said this in a speech) the only reason why
Linus ported Linux to
It has nothing to do with IBM's involvement. In fact, if you look
closely at the DRI lists, you'll see some IBM folks involved ;)
im not saying they arent involved. my point was more they ship ppc
based servers - so core stability would be my goal if i was them
not bells and whistles.
DRI for r300
perhaps 'coda' might be of interest
Dean
Paul J. Lucas wrote:
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Tamas K Papp wrote:
Unless your servers have databases or something like that, unison
might work.
I looked at Unison and it's a file-synchronizer, i.e.,
bidirectional. I only want unidirectional.
I also
just drop the boot images on the hard disk
reboot, get into openfirmware, point it at the files and
off you go.
its all in the debian install doco
Dean
Bryan Frechette wrote:
Hi, i would like to know, how we install the net install of debian PPC
on an Imac G3
Bryan Frechette
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im a sid man myself. but im not running production boxes
sid being 'unstable'
i think
potatoe - way old
woody - 'stable' but old
sarge - 'testing' but new
sid - 'unstable' bleeding edge
i think thats right. anyway, often times youll do a system wide update
and something minor will break. but usual
hey ben,
i know you have installed debian onto your minimac
have you enhanced or refined anything? done anything
else note worthy?
Dean
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a life? your live in canberra right?
im not sure if thats possible.
Dean
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 08:45 +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote:
hey ben,
i know you have installed debian onto your minimac
have you enhanced or refined anything? done anything
else note worthy?
Appart
what are you saying about my car?
i dont turn on the neon lights during the day...
Dean
david wrote:
There is more to life than hours spent in traffic and cityscapes
dominated by gaudy neon lighting ;)
david
Dean Hamstead wrote:
a life? your live in canberra right?
im not sure if thats possible
if exim gets more than 10 messages in the one smtp connection
it will differ them into the queue. This is a good thing in an extremely
busy server - especially when queue runs are potentially served by other
machines or some sort of cron based queue running is happening.
if you can get fetchmail t
>> > > works and what is broken for each supported sound hardware? Such a
>> table
>> > > could go a long way towards helping whoever will pocket the $500
>> Ubuntu
>> > > bounty for fixing ALSA for all pmac sound hardware variants.
>> >
>> > Not exactly, you are welcome to start such a table thoug
Not yet. We have ordered one for a co-worker but it hasn't been
delivered yet.
Will said co-worker work on its linux support?
Dean
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machine is a dual usb ibook
has an internal 56k modem, it seems to be at /dev/ttyS0
gtkterm seems happy enough to talk to the modem, but when
i dial (ATDTx) it just spews garbage at me immediately
no its not ppp, it just hammers in straight away with
or without the phone line plugged in.
could
ahh ben comes through with the goods
except for the actual doco... hrmm
anyone using a modem on their ibook (even imac) and got some options?
damned lack of apple cds
Dean
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 21:59 +1000, Cedric Pradalier wrote:
According to Dean Hamstead, on Thu
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75407
someone link this
Dean
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 21:59 +1000, Cedric Pradalier wrote:
According to Dean Hamstead, on Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:23:33 +1000,
machine is a dual usb ibook
has an internal 56k modem, it seems to
actually
still havent found the command
Dean
Dean Hamstead wrote:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75407
someone link this
Dean
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 21:59 +1000, Cedric Pradalier wrote:
According to Dean Hamstead, on Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:23:33 +1000
speaking of xorg, is it in sarge or sid for ppc yet
im still runnung xfree86 - but im assuming one magic day
ill have an enormous update as xorg takes over and everything
is compiled against it - and consequently repackaged
Dean
Steve Freitas wrote:
On Sunday 17 April 2005 12:14 am, Benjamin Herren
sadly the mpeg decoder on the ati cards in imac dv's
(and my ibook dual usb) are unsupported
thats the sole reason my old imac dv runs osx
man id be willing to throw cash at someone to
reverse engineer it. pity ben is a busy man as
it is. someone clone him.
Dean
vinai wrote:
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Ro
sadly the mpeg decoder on the ati cards in imac dv's
(and my ibook dual usb) are unsupported
thats the sole reason my old imac dv runs osx
man id be willing to throw cash at someone to
reverse engineer it. pity ben is a busy man as
it is. someone clone him.
Well, that's a little bit of a different
The ATI stuff is a hardware assist mecanism, it's doesn't do the entire
decoding, it does HW IDCT and motion compensation stuff afaik, or that
sort of thing. Anyway, we don't currently have specs on how to use it.
ATI does provide a binary lib for x86 that can be used in linux, I
think, but not fo
Eddy Petrisor wrote:
Hello,
I have a powerbook g4 with Debian installed on it and Mac OS X.
The kernel used by me is 2.6.9 with benh's sleep patch.
I have some concerns regarding charging and the battery:
1) When inserting the charger into the laptop and the battery is
partially charged, then the
sounds like you just havent configured things properly
all the mentioned distributions are all just linux
wrapped and bowed with different knots.
id say that you havent provided anywhere near enough
information to get any helpfull feedback
how much ram do you have?
what video card?
have you perhaps
given that cpu0 is dead, you might get some life out of it
in the interum before getting a replacement by simply
physically swapping cpus
(2c)
Dean
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 16:04 -0300, Paulo Ricardo Paz Vital wrote:
Hello fellows,
I have a dual PowerMac G4 (descr
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theres a terrible bug (or oversight) using CGI with modperl and apache2
who is the maintainer? ive tried emailing the person in the package
contents with no response
whats happening? well file uploading through CGI.pm just flatly doesnt
seem to work
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