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Applications and Porting / Re: Wine patch to support PPC64

« on: August 31, 2020, 10:51:43 am »

Can somebody explain how it will be possible to execute Windows binaries via Wine on a ppc64le architecture (which has a different CPU instruction set than x86)? QEMU?

No way.

It's just the winelib port: a library which allows to compile some programs which use Win API. It cannot be used  to run  x86 binaries on the POWER.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Slackware64-Current

« on: June 27, 2020, 02:20:41 am »

https://www.riscyslack.org/?feed

It's mostly my ramblings of constantly almost having a useful build.

Thank you! Every information about progress of your work is interesting.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Slackware64-Current

« on: June 25, 2020, 12:23:15 pm »

Once I get it setup the blog site will be at https://www.riscyslack.org and mirror will be https://mirror.riscyslack.org
That's the plan at least.

Can you please consider  a RSS channel for your blog?

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Slackware64-Current

« on: June 23, 2020, 01:23:14 pm »

Slackware? Thank you very much for your effort!

I used the Slackware in the past (on intel and amd64 systems) and still thinking about return to it. It would be great to have it on my Blackbird...

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User Zone / Re: Configure Xorg for AST2500 max resolution of 1920x1200 on Ubuntu Server 19.10

« on: May 05, 2020, 11:06:25 am »

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[    19.961] (II) modeset(0): Disabling kernel dirty updates, not required.
[    35.360] (II) modeset(0): Allocate new frame buffer 1920x1200 stride
[    35.362] (EE) modeset(0): failed to set mode: Cannot allocate memory
[    35.376] (EE) modeset(0): failed to set mode: Invalid argument

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User Zone / Re: Configure Xorg for AST2500 max resolution of 1920x1200 on Ubuntu Server 19.10

« on: May 05, 2020, 10:24:15 am »

I just tried to boot to the "rescue mode" of my Fedora (it is labelled "F30") and ... the 1920x1200 works.

If I boot with the F32 or the F31 kernel (5.6.8 or 5.6.7) then it does not work (1920x1080 is the maximum).

So can it be a kernel issue?

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User Zone / Re: Configure Xorg for AST2500 max resolution of 1920x1200 on Ubuntu Server 19.10

« on: May 05, 2020, 06:43:48 am »

Is there possibly a risk of "overclocking"? Any documentation available that says wrong modelines do not destroy the AST2500?

I don't thing so. I didn't find any such statement.

Moreover, it still works in 1920x1080 (after three months in 1920x1200).

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User Zone / Re: Configure Xorg for AST2500 max resolution of 1920x1200 on Ubuntu Server 19.10

« on: April 30, 2020, 09:29:20 am »

What modelines gives you the cvt command?

# 1920x1200 59.88 Hz (CVT 2.30MA) hsync: 74.56 kHz; pclk: 193.25 MHz
Modeline "1920x1200_60.00"  193.25  1920 2056 2256 2592  1200 1203 1209 1245 -hsync +vsync

# 1920x1080 59.96 Hz (CVT 2.07M9) hsync: 67.16 kHz; pclk: 173.00 MHz
Modeline "1920x1080_60.00"  173.00  1920 2048 2248 2576  1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync

# 1280x1024 59.89 Hz (CVT 1.31M4) hsync: 63.67 kHz; pclk: 109.00 MHz
Modeline "1280x1024_60.00"  109.00  1280 1368 1496 1712  1024 1027 1034 1063 -hsync +vsync

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User Zone / Re: Configure Xorg for AST2500 max resolution of 1920x1200 on Ubuntu Server 19.10

« on: April 28, 2020, 01:54:09 pm »

I'm sorry for late reply.

My X11 boot to 1920x1080 now. Then I have tried to changer resolution to 1280x1024 (it obviously worked) and then to 1920x1200 (blank screen).

The Xorg log file is (attached).

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User Zone / Re: Configure Xorg for AST2500 max resolution of 1920x1200 on Ubuntu Server 19.10

« on: April 27, 2020, 10:48:37 am »

What's the problem in detail? Does 1080 resolution work?

Blank screen, monitor says "no signal". But 1080 works normally (I'm using it now). I had only the 1920x1200 in my Xorg configuration file soi I had to add the 1080 one to see at least something.
Now I have 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 1280x1024 configured (the 1920x are from Raptor Wiki) and I can go to 1280x1024 and back to 1920x1080 but when I trt the 1920x1200 the I got blank the abovementioned blank screen.

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User Zone / Re: Configure Xorg for AST2500 max resolution of 1920x1200 on Ubuntu Server 19.10

« on: April 26, 2020, 06:10:55 am »

# 1920x1200 59.88 Hz (CVT 2.30MA) hsync: 74.56 kHz; pclk: 193.25 MHz
    Modeline       "1920x1200"  193.25  1920 2056 2256 2592  1200 1203 1209 1245 -hsync +vsync

I would be happy if somebody could confirm that these settings are working - I will add them then to the according Raptor wiki page.

It worked until yesterday update (but I think that the Fedora 31 updated just the kernel, not the Xorg?!).

Do you have similar experience?

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Legacy POWER Hardware / Re: Old stuff survey

« on: April 23, 2020, 12:31:32 pm »

• Intelistation 265
• Intellistation 285
• Intellistation 175
• iMac G5 (first model, 17")
• PowerBook G4 (last model, 15")
• Power Macintosh 6100 with G3 upgrade