From: Tek <te...@ca...> - 2006-10-06 12:33:02
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Thanks Tobias, I'll try that one and report back on my success this attempt. I was planning on writing a whole how-to for others trying to get the pb1400 up, but I've been discouraged. Thanks for the tip. Tek Tobias Netzel wrote: > Did you yet try the miboot.image from my webspace? > http://home.vrweb.de/internetzel/miboot.image > > That image is very stable on my machine. > PCMCIA, Ethernet or serial port and ADB (mouse and keyboard) activity > simultaneously had easily caused shutdowns before I reworked the > interrupt handling for the PowerBooks. > > Please try my image and report your results. > > Tobias > > > Am 06.10.2006 um 02:58 schrieb Tek: > >> Tobias, you were'nt talking to me, but I thought I would butt in. You >> asked about shutdowns. I have gotten many shutdowns. Happens every >> time to me now during boot process. I keep having to reinstall to get >> rid of the shutdowns. >> >> I was actually set up on the pb1400 4 months ago, everything worked for >> a month and then something happened and the machine started shutting >> down halfway through the boot process (when starting gdm) >> >> I reinstalled debian, rebuilt my system (taking many hours) and >> everything seemed fine. Two weeks later, same problem started when >> loading gdm. >> >> I thought I had a bad motherboard or video chip that was pooping out on >> gdm and cutting my power, so I switched out the Mobo and the screen out >> with that of another scrapped pb1400. Then I rebuilt everything >> (taking >> several days to get everthing right). >> >> My nicely reworked machine booted fine for a week and then it started >> spontaneously powering down during apache being loaded! Needless to >> say >> I was pissed because of all of the hardware work that I had just done >> to >> avoid the problem. I was pretty discouraged. This was 4 weeks ago. >> My >> pb1400 has been sitting in the corner. >> >> I am just getting back on this list today to see if there is any hope >> and if anyone else had heard about this problem. I am so glad to hear >> you asking that question, because it means it is an known issue. >> However, it sounds like there may not be a cure if you don't mention >> one. . . is this the case? Is there a different miboot image or >> something that fixes this? >> >> thanks for all of the work that you do. >> >> sincerely, >> >> Tek >> >> Tobias Netzel wrote: >>> In order to being able to select 15 or 16 bit for X11 you first need >>> to >>> to select "thousands" in Mac OS. >>> The display driver cannot change the color depth. >>> You will see that Linux is much slower with more than 8 bit color >>> depth >>> - therefore I prefer 8 bit. >>> >>> Did you yet get any spurious shutdowns while using Linux? >>> >>> Tobias >>> >>> Am 05.10.2006 um 06:14 schrieb Toby Dylan Hocking: >>> >>>> Hey guys, >>>> >>>> I'm configuring X on my pb1400 and I realized that the only bit depth >>>> that >>>> is supported is 8 bit color, although I remember I got "thousands" in >>>> mac >>>> os. I tried 15 and 16 bit color, but X failed to initialize. >>>> >>>> Has anybody got a pb1400 running X at more than 8 bit color? >>>> >>>> Toby >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> -- >>>> -- >>>> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT >>>> Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to >>>> share your >>>> opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn >>>> cash >>>> http://www.techsay.com/default.php? >>>> page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Nubus-pmac-users mailing list >>>> Nub...@li... >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users >>>> >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> --- >>> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. 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