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Power of PowerPC: Pimp My Quicksilver - Part IV:B CPU
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Pimp My Quicksilver - Part IV:B CPU. As promised, this particular post will be short and sweet. First off, I have had to drop the upgraded CPU clock speed back down to 1.33 GHz as so far it seems to be offering the most stability with both operating systems. Research in that department continues. 1 Run the following command to search for the most current and appropriate 32-bit SMP PPC kernel within the Debian repositories. Sudo apt-cache search linux-image. Reboot your machine t...
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Power of PowerPC: May 2015
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Pimp My Quicksilver - Part III: CD/DVD Drive. Welcome to Part II of the Pimp my Quicksilver series where I will be upgrading the CD/DVD drive. Again, this particular component may not be the most exciting or even often used, but I felt it necessary to include. Here is a System Profile screenshot with the old drive:. Here is a System Profile screenshot of the newly installed drive. The NetBSD ISO I downloaded from here. To burn an ISO using wodim, simply run the following:. Sunday, ...
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Power of PowerPC: Pimp My Quicksilver - Part IV:A CPU
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015. Pimp My Quicksilver - Part IV:A CPU. Not only that, but these upgrade gems are becoming harder and harder to come by. So onto the upgrade. The easiest part of this whole process was the steps to take out the old stock CPU and swap in the M5D-1214U Giga Designs dual 1.4 GHz 7457 CPU, which happened to be the first thing I did not really knowing what I was up against. I followed the steps from iFixit's website for swapping out the CPU here. After running this firmware upgrade and re...
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Power of PowerPC: July 2015
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Pimp My Quicksilver - Part IV:B CPU. As promised, this particular post will be short and sweet. First off, I have had to drop the upgraded CPU clock speed back down to 1.33 GHz as so far it seems to be offering the most stability with both operating systems. Research in that department continues. 1 Run the following command to search for the most current and appropriate 32-bit SMP PPC kernel within the Debian repositories. Sudo apt-cache search linux-image. Reboot your machine t...
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Power of PowerPC: Updates, Aliases, and Network No-Nos
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Friday, June 12, 2015. Updates, Aliases, and Network No-Nos. Right now, I feel like I'll have a better chance of getting 3D acceleration working with the nVidia Quadro card on the G5, so look for updates on that over on the PowerPCLiberation blog. Sudo apt-get update & sudo apt-get upgrade. You can shorten this command to simply the word. The syntax for setting up a new alias is as follows:. Alias [alias name]='[full command you are aliasing]'. Alias update='sudo apt-get update & sudo apt-get upgrade.
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Power of PowerPC: Pimp My QuickSilver - Part II: RAM
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Sunday, May 10, 2015. Pimp My QuickSilver - Part II: RAM. Welcome to Part II of my series on upgrading a G4 Quicksilver (QS) to its maximum capabilities. See Part I here. So a few of the hardware upgrades arrived including the 1.5 GB of RAM, SuperDrive, and nVidia 7800 GS graphics card. Before I could really begin this adventure, I wanted to reload the Quicksilver in its current condition with fresh OS installs with a little bit of customization done for each. That's where the battle began. So all of tha...
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Power of PowerPC: June 2015
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Sunday, June 28, 2015. PPC Linux Backups: Part I. So I've again taken an opportunity to step away from the G4 upgrades project as I have again become frustrated, this time with trying to make the upgraded CPU work. More on that when the post is completed and published. So onto Part I covering the process involved in creating an exact bootable clone of your existing hard drive. We are going to use the well-known and trusted command line tool dd. To attach the backup drive. Sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdc.
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Power of PowerPC: An Applet a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015. An Applet a Day Keeps the Doctor Away. I'm subscribed to the Debian PPC mailing list (if you aren't yet, you definitely should be! And recently read about a "new" Gnome (both a gtk2 and 3 version) battery menu applet for our PowerPC portables as well as a version of it that was ported to C. You can read more about the applet here. And the C code can be downloaded from Github here. Change directories into the unzipped folder and run:. Folder so go ahead and type. Of course, you ...
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Power of PowerPC: October 2014
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Saturday, October 25, 2014. PowerBook DVI to HDMI to HDTV. Liquid crystal display all day. Knowing the television (anybody actually spell that word out anymore? I purchased an 8 ft Insignia HDMI cable. As well as the specified adapter. From Best Buy for nearly $50. I should have stuck with ordering each from the webs to save a little cash, but felt like making a quick run to Best Buy. Either way, the quality of the adapter and cable are fitting for my needs. Was set to Auto. So maybe it is not all that p...
