Subject: Re: Success: iBook G4
To: Magnus Henoch <mange@freemail.hu>
From: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 01/29/2005 13:03:04
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Hello,

>>> * Mozilla shouldn't leave black lines when scrolling.
>> There are some long-standing problems in the PowerPC-specific parts of
>> gecko, as far as I know no one really knows what exactly causes them
>> and in a weird way the kernel version seems to have an influence
>> too.
> Does it happen on LinuxPPC and OpenBSD too?
No idea, last time I tried to run Linux on my S900 X11 wouldn't work at 
all, but I suspect mozilla would work correctly. I've never touched 
OpenBSD.

>>> * I want audio.  Apparently I just need to compile a kernel with 
>>> awacs
>>>   enabled.
>> No, for the iBook G4 you need the snapper audio driver.
> Thanks for the hint!  Now I've gotten it to work.
I've made an experimental driver for the thermal monitor / fan 
controller in my iBook G4 ( the 800MHz version. I guess yours would 
have the same chip, an Analog Devices ADT7467. The properties of 
/uni-n/ki2c/fan should tell you what kind you have), it's not in the 
cvs repository and would probably work only with -current though.
It allows you to read the thermal sensors, CPU voltage and fan speed 
through envsys ( so gkrellm and friends see them ) and to set the 
temperature thresholds so you can control when the fan should kick in - 
useful since the default is pretty high and power saving doesn't work 
(yet) on the G4 models used in iBooks so the CPU runs pretty hot.

have fun
Michael
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