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Sorry -- the problems reported in my earlier post seem to have been |
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largely self-induced bumblings of the "too stupid to live" variety. |
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I've gotten cpufreq, ext3 and apm to work fine with ppc-sources. |
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One thing, though -- in the the Gentoo PPC FAQ |
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(http://gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-ppc-faq.xml#doc_chap2_sect1) it says |
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that to get /proc/cpufreq to work, you need to *disable* CPU Frequency |
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scaling, and must use the benh sources. This is quite false. |
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On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 05:45:23PM -0400, Jacob Smullyan wrote: |
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> I have a new powerbook G4 (12", 867 Mhz) and have been running into a |
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> number of nasty problems getting it to work. |
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> I found that with the benh kernel, I ran into the hda/hdc confusion |
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> that has been talked about a lot in the forums. There seemed to be |
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> two approaches to resolving it -- activating a kernel option that put |
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> the ATA 100 first, or setting /etc/fstab and /etc/yaboot.conf to look |
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> in hdc. Neither approach worked for me; either way, I either got a |
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> kernel panic if if continued to look in /dev/hda, or the boot simply |
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> died after openpic, usually causing a poweroff and reboot. |
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> So I went to ppc-sources, and got a working kernel. However, it has |
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> two problems. 1. no /proc/cpufreq, so I'm left with a processor |
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> running at 61% of capacity, and it is already pretty slow (coming from |
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> x86, I was actually pretty shocked at how slow compiles were, although |
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> I suppose gcc is responsible for a lot of that). 2. It mounts my root |
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> partition, which should be ext3, as ext2, with this warning: |
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> EXT2-fs warning (device ide0(3,11): ext2_read_super: mounting ext3 |
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> filesystem as ext2 |
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> Not having ext3 is a pain, because (especially since standby isn't |
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> working either) it means that I've had to fsck several times already, |
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> once manually. There is not apm emulation, so I can't monitor |
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> my battery (or at least, I don't know how to yet). |
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> Some good news, though -- no problems with the nvidia graphics card! |
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> Any pointers, anyone? If anyone has a .config that works for benh on |
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> this model I'd be thrilled. |
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> Jacob Smullyan |
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