latest benh kernel on powerbooks [was Re: CUPS errors]

[Carsten Milling]

Thanks for your quick response. Seems to be easier than I expected, at
least with a TiBook 400MHz which is what I have too. I had some
discussion a week or so ago with someone using the benh kernel on a
revIII TiBook who reported that neither the modem nor sleep would work
for him. So maybe his problems were a hardware issue or due to an
inappropriate kernel config. While the modem is not so important for
me (I'm happy with my DSL line :), sleep in fact is. The only trouble
I had with it so far was broken firewire after wake up. But I found a
workaround I can live with (see my posting of July 23). 

I don't care very much about sound if at least I can hear the system
bell (I much more like what comes out off my standalone DVD player
;). Though it would be nice to have decent mp3 playback occasionally
which currently doesn't really work with the stock YDL setup.

So I think I'll give the benh kernel a try as soon as I find time for
it, especially since my current system's performance feels a bit
degraded compared to the previous 2.0/2.1 installation. Hope I can 
contribute a success story within some days.

Carsten

On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 10:07:09AM -0500, David Dahl wrote:

> When I used to run Mandrake PPC i started using ben's kernel, and I
> found that it greatly improved stability, especially when my
> Powerbook G4/400 was new.  I havent tested Firewire yet, I will with
> a new drive I want to format next week. I hope it works.  I have not
> tested the modem yet, but I did compile in Airport card support,
> which I will finally be getting soon.  The only "special tweaking"
> was using the following web site instructions:
> 
> http://www.imaclinux.com/plain_page.php?caller=imaclinux.php3+record=46
> 
> YES! sleep works great! I didnt even test it  until now.
> Cool.
> Sound works just fine, I listen to XMMS all day long  (streaming).
>
> get the source over rsync, and follow the instructions on
> imaclinux.com and you'll be fine.
> 
> David
> 
> PS: if there are issues and you know about them with YDL, please
> comment.
>
> On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 16:36:48 +0200
> Carsten Milling <cmil@hashtable.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 08:01:04AM -0500, David Dahl wrote:
> > ...
> > 
> > > And, now my machine is even more responsive and zippy than before.
> > > I reccommend that all powerbook owners rebuild thier kernel, it
> > > really speeds things up...
> > 
> > Sounds interesting. Till now I hesitated to try this because, from
> > what I read on this list, it seemed to me that some things that work
> > with the stock YDL kernel may not with benh's. So I would be
> > interested to hear on what PB (G4?, which type?) you run your kernel
> > and, above all, if sleep works with it. What about sound, firewire,
> > modem, ...? Any special tweaking necessary? Thanks in advance,
> > 
> > Carsten
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