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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent"> |
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| 5 | <!ENTITY % patches-entities SYSTEM "../../patches.ent"> |
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| 6 | %general-entities; |
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| 7 | %patches-entities; |
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| 8 | ]> |
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| 9 | |
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| 10 | <sect1 id="ch-system-powerpc-utils" role="wrap"> |
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| 11 | <?dbhtml filename="powerpc-utils.html"?> |
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| 12 | |
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| 13 | <title>Powerpc-Utils_&powerpcutils-version;</title> |
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| 14 | |
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| 15 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-powerpc-utils"> |
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| 16 | <primary sortas="a-Powerpc-Utils">Powerpc-Utils</primary> |
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| 17 | </indexterm> |
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| 18 | |
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| 19 | <sect2 role="package"> |
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| 20 | <title/> |
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| 21 | |
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| 22 | <para>The Powerpc-Utils package contains a number of utilities for Power |
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| 23 | Macintoshes and other similar machines. Most of these utilities are now |
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| 24 | obsolete, but <command>nvsetenv</command> is needed by <command>ybin</command> |
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| 25 | to install the bootloader on an hfs partition.</para> |
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| 26 | |
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| 27 | <segmentedlist> |
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| 28 | <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle> |
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| 29 | |
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| 30 | <seglistitem> |
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| 31 | <seg>GCC, Gzip, Make, and Patch</seg> |
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| 32 | </seglistitem> |
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| 33 | </segmentedlist> |
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| 34 | |
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| 35 | </sect2> |
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| 36 | |
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| 37 | <sect2 role="installation"> |
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| 38 | <title>Installation of Powerpc-Utils</title> |
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| 39 | |
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| 40 | <para>This package, originally pmac-utils, has issues with NewWorld macintoshes. |
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| 41 | The following debian patch fixes these issues and generally updates the package, |
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| 42 | although it also introduces a bogus warning to update the kernel headers.</para> |
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| 43 | |
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| 44 | <screen><userinput>zcat ../&powerpcutils-patch; | patch -p1</userinput></screen> |
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| 45 | |
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| 46 | <para>Compile the useful programs:</para> |
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| 47 | |
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| 48 | <screen><userinput>make nvsetenv nvsetvol</userinput></screen> |
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| 49 | |
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| 50 | <para>Install the package:</para> |
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| 51 | |
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| 52 | <screen><userinput>install -m755 nvsetenv nvsetvol /usr/sbin |
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| 53 | install -m644 nvsetvol.8 /usr/share/man/man8</userinput></screen> |
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| 54 | |
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| 55 | </sect2> |
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| 56 | |
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| 57 | <sect2 id="contents-powerpc-utils" role="content"> |
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| 58 | <title>Contents of Powerpc-Utils</title> |
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| 59 | |
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| 60 | <segmentedlist> |
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| 61 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle> |
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| 62 | |
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| 63 | <seglistitem> |
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| 64 | <seg>nvsetenv, nvsetvol</seg> |
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| 65 | </seglistitem> |
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| 66 | </segmentedlist> |
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| 67 | |
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| 68 | <variablelist> |
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| 69 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead> |
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| 70 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?> |
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| 71 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?> |
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| 72 | |
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| 73 | <varlistentry id="nvsetenv"> |
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| 74 | <term><command>nvsetenv</command></term> |
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[aeb56828] | 75 | <listitem> |
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| 76 | <para>Manipulate variables in the non-volatile RAM.</para> |
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| 77 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-powerpc-utils nvsetenv"> |
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| 78 | <primary sortas="b-nvsetenv">nvsetenv</primary> |
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| 79 | </indexterm> |
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| 80 | </listitem> |
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[d78696a] | 81 | </varlistentry> |
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| 82 | |
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| 83 | <varlistentry id="nvsetvol"> |
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| 84 | <term><command>nvsetvol</command></term> |
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[aeb56828] | 85 | <listitem> |
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| 86 | <para>Adjust the volume of the boot-up chime on Macintoshes.</para> |
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| 87 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-powerpc-utils nvsetvol"> |
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| 88 | <primary sortas="b-nvsetvol">nvsetvol</primary> |
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| 89 | </indexterm> |
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| 90 | </listitem> |
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[d78696a] | 91 | </varlistentry> |
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| 92 | |
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| 93 | </variablelist> |
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| 94 | |
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| 95 | </sect2> |
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| 96 | |
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| 97 | </sect1> |
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