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Rasmus Wiman | 2 Jun 2005 00:41

Re: RE: Dual Boot HowTo

Markus Moebs <wonderful_spam <at> gmx.de> skrev:

> The DWL-122 I have _is_ equipped with the prism2 chip and AFAIK it
> is not supported internally because it is neither a PCMCIA nor a
> PCI card. I would be glad if you proved me wrong. Actually I have
> not found any WLAN USB device that is supported by the kernel
> directly (on the x86 platform many seem to be working with
> ndiswrapper).

Have a look at
<http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page>. USB rt2500
aren't supported yet, but there's reason to be optimistic. Also,
RT2500:s are dirt cheap (at least in Sweden). I have a Canyon cardbus
card and it works perfectly in my x86 laptop. From what I've read in
the rt2x00 mailing lists, it doesn't seem to work too well on PPC yet,
but people are actively hunting down the big- endian bugs in the driver.

/Rasmus Wiman

Windsurfing is a great metaphor for life. If you can get in the harness
and foot straps, then you are a person who doesn't give up after the
first try. That goes a long way in this world.
- Björn Dunckerbeck

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Chris L. Mason | 2 Jun 2005 04:55

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Re: Where to set console blanking timeout?

On 5/31/05, David Holm <dholm <at> gentoo.org> wrote:
...
> 
> Set it to 15min:
> setterm -blank 15
> 
> To disable it:
> setterm -powersave off
> 

Thanks for the info David.  I haven't had the chance to test
this yet, but I'm off work tomorrow, so I'll try it then.

Chris

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Peter Kiraly | 2 Jun 2005 13:14

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openoffice

Hello there!

This time I try this forum. ;)
So more user can learn from my mistakes...

My problem:

I have tried to emerge openoffice (1.1.4-r1), but somehow it did not
work. I tried three times: first, after four hours of compiling had a
failure, the second try locked the whole computer, the third try failed
after about 20 minutes (somewhere around berkleydb, had a segmentation
problem).
At the beginning the compiling process has a notification about that
it's not an easy task, and openoffice is vulnerable for some chflags
settings. (Beside it's a huge package).
Is there a special way to emerge openoffice, or shall i just go with the
-bin package?

Oh, by the way. My hw is a PegasosII with G4...

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David Holm | 2 Jun 2005 13:19

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Re: openoffice

Hello Peter,

On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 13:14 +0200, Peter Kiraly wrote:
[snip]
> I have tried to emerge openoffice (1.1.4-r1), but somehow it did not
> work. I tried three times: first, after four hours of compiling had a
> failure, the second try locked the whole computer, the third try failed
> after about 20 minutes (somewhere around berkleydb, had a segmentation
> problem).

Did the compiler segfault? If it did then it sounds more like a
toolchain/kernel problem than an openoffice problem.

> At the beginning the compiling process has a notification about that
> it's not an easy task, and openoffice is vulnerable for some chflags
> settings. (Beside it's a huge package).
> Is there a special way to emerge openoffice, or shall i just go with the
> -bin package?

You shouldn't have to do anything special, but openoffice is a bit of a
bitch to compile (mostly due to the amount of time it takes though). The
openoffice-bin package is a bit old on ppc, it's based on an RPM. You
can (usually) grab a binary package of openoffice (built on Gentoo) from
my dev page, http://dev.gentoo.org/~dholm/ppc.html

Did you solve your DMA issues?

//David Holm

Joseph Jezak | 2 Jun 2005 13:45

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Re: openoffice


Peter Kiraly wrote:
> Hello there!
> 
> This time I try this forum. ;)
> So more user can learn from my mistakes...
> 
> My problem:
> 
> I have tried to emerge openoffice (1.1.4-r1), but somehow it did not
> work. I tried three times: first, after four hours of compiling had a
> failure, the second try locked the whole computer, the third try failed
> after about 20 minutes (somewhere around berkleydb, had a segmentation
> problem).
> At the beginning the compiling process has a notification about that
> it's not an easy task, and openoffice is vulnerable for some chflags
> settings. (Beside it's a huge package).
> Is there a special way to emerge openoffice, or shall i just go with the
> -bin package?
> 
> Oh, by the way. My hw is a PegasosII with G4...
> 

Out of curiosity, do you have kernel preemption enabled?  If so, please
disable it as it is known to cause errors like this.  If you would like
to leave it on, please ensure that smp support is compiled in as well as
that seems to fix some of the problems with just preempt.

That said, what are your CFLAGs that your're using?

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Peter Kiraly | 2 Jun 2005 13:47

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Re: openoffice

Hello David!

You are sure a professional! Unfortunately I'm just learning this whole
linux world.
I will try to emerge openoffice again, this time will do a log to record
things.
About this 'toolchain' thing. There was other packages (firefox for
example) 'who' was complained about updating this toolchain. But they're
seems working.

> Did you solve your DMA issues?

Oh yes! Sorry... The line 'all_args="-d1"' is already in hdparm's config
file. Just added hdparm to runlevel, then it's all good :)
Thank you for the help!!!!!

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 Gentoo Linux PPC
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Erik Zeek | 2 Jun 2005 13:47

Re: openoffice

On Thursday 02 June 2005 07:14 am, Peter Kiraly wrote:
> Hello there!
>
> This time I try this forum. ;)
> So more user can learn from my mistakes...
>
> My problem:
>
> I have tried to emerge openoffice (1.1.4-r1), but somehow it did not
> work. I tried three times: first, after four hours of compiling had a
> failure, the second try locked the whole computer, the third try failed
> after about 20 minutes (somewhere around berkleydb, had a segmentation
> problem).
> At the beginning the compiling process has a notification about that
> it's not an easy task, and openoffice is vulnerable for some chflags
> settings. (Beside it's a huge package).
> Is there a special way to emerge openoffice, or shall i just go with the
> -bin package?
>
> Oh, by the way. My hw is a PegasosII with G4...

Do you have kernel preemption enabled?  I had problems like that when I did.  
Kernel preemption is broken on PPC.

You can also restart the ebuild with the "ebuild" command, so you don't loose 
any work that has been done.  ("ebuild <path to ebuild> merge")

Good luck,
Erik

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Peter Kiraly | 2 Jun 2005 14:16

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Re: openoffice

Erik Zeek & Joseph Jezak wrote:

> Do you have kernel preemption enabled?  I had problems like that when I did.  
> Out of curiosity, do you have kernel preemption enabled?

Stupid me... I missed that note from the handbook...
Just made a kernel disabled that preemption... Then will see.

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 Gentoo Linux PPC
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Peter Kiraly | 2 Jun 2005 18:58

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Re: openoffice

Ok. I give up on this one... Have no sucsess :(
A log file has benn created. If anyone interested, I can send it over.

If it counts, my cflags settings:
CFLAGS="-mcpu=7450 -mtune=7450 -O2 -maltivec -mabi=altivec
-fno-strict-aliasing -fsigned-char -pipe"

Thank you for your help!

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¤-----------------------------¤
 Pegasos II G4 <at> 1GHz
 Gentoo Linux PPC
¤-----------------------------¤

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Joseph Jezak | 2 Jun 2005 19:14

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Re: openoffice

Peter Kiraly wrote:
> Ok. I give up on this one... Have no sucsess :(
> A log file has benn created. If anyone interested, I can send it over.
> 
> If it counts, my cflags settings:
> CFLAGS="-mcpu=7450 -mtune=7450 -O2 -maltivec -mabi=altivec
> -fno-strict-aliasing -fsigned-char -pipe"
> 
> Thank you for your help!
> 

How did it fail this time?  Are you sure you were running your kernel
without preemption?  Which use flags do you have set for the openoffice
ebuild?  Can you please provide emerge info?

Thanks,
-Joe

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