SHEEPSHAVER SLOWING DOWN UPDATE
SHEEPSHAVER SLOWING DOWN PATCH

The official Fedora 28 build of Firefox 60, which actually does work, apparently cheats a little by disabling tests and WebRTC, part of what those patches address, though I'm uncertain how they got around the jemalloc or WASM signal handlers issue.

You also need to turn jemalloc off because it barfs on the default PPC64 page size of 64K.

SHEEPSHAVER SLOWING DOWN PATCH

mozconfig if you apply this patch, this patch and this patch, and chmod -x /usr/bin/ld.gold because the Firefox build system insists, nay, demands to use the (useless on PowerPC) gold linker I don't even know why Fedora bothers installing it. After most of Saturday spent hacking on it, I'm pleased to note that Firefox 60 will compile on the T2 with a minimal. It should work, the chipsets should be supported. The only hardware glitch still left over is that I can't figure out why Linux won't recognize the Sonnet FireWire/USB PCIe combo card. I'm thinking of getting one of the Supermicro 'superquiet' PSUs next, since I notice its higher-pitch fan sound more than the case fans.

SHEEPSHAVER SLOWING DOWN UPDATE

The T2 firmware update to 1.04 also diminished some of the fan hunting I was hearing and while it's still louder than the G5, it's definitely getting better and better. I got Sabrent Bluetooth and USB audio dongles, which 'just worked' with Linux, and even got VLC to play some Blu-ray movies (as well as VLC can play them, given that BD+ is still not a solved problem).

This fixed amdgpu for X11 and now I'm running a fully accelerated GNOME desktop on the AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100. Then I could just run that from a remote login session from the T2, and the G5 would peacefully rest at about 20 watts or so.įirst was to grab all the updates. One glitch with this was switching the KVM away from the G5 caused it to wake up again, so I wrote a little Perl script to fork and log me out, and in the child process run a trivial AppleScript to tell application 'Finder' to sleep. I mean, I put it in sleep mode, and sat down with the Talos II to see if I could get Firefox building and running, and then QEMU (and to see if the G5 would stay asleep for more than a few hours, since I don't need a hot and noisy 230+ watt computer running next to my less hot but noisier 180W one). This Memorial Day weekend I pulled the Sonnet FireWire card from my Quad G5 and put it to sleep.

Sheepshaver slowing down