Hi,
I bought a Peg1 with April2 several Weeks ago. Reading all the probs there might be with Peg1, I'll wonder, if its any good at all ...

What are the Probs ob the Peg1 with April2 ?

Are there hardwarebugs pending, which will make the system unstable ?

(Is there a Hard/hack for some of them ?)

bye

Overall I've found my Peg 1 April 2 to be pretty stable. It wasn't as expandable as the Peg 2 in that they could not reliably increase the bus to 133 mhz for a G4, there are sound distortion problems that seem to be cured with a Radeon and MOS 1.4.2. It is reallly picky about Ram. Other than those thiings it has worked great for me so far.

Thanks, this give some hope ..

MY Peg1 came with a TVCard inserted, but I was never able to run the software without crashing the Peg. ( tried AmithlonTv and later the btr-proggy some guy in this forum posted)

Running Linux for backup purposes, the harddisk performance was about 4Mb/sec, which isn't that impressing for a modern system.. My A4000/60 goes much faster

So it's more about driver problems than hardware probs ?

bye

That's right, if you have the right components, it is pretty stable. There are some problems left like TV-card support (Visionary works only without Overlay), Memory limit in Linux (because of outdated openfirmware) and the difficulty in getting a G4 into it.

I've got a PegI/April2 with 1GB RAM and it works great.

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It's probably a little of both. There are things that have been fixed in drivers and things that will likely never work - like the TV card. MorphOS is a pretty peppy OS so it seems fast even with the hardware problems.

What linux distro are you running?

David

Hi,
my distro is debian, kernel is 2.4.27-powerpc.

I copied the harddrive with dd to a second one. Both HDs are capable of running faster than 30Mb/sec, but the copying was around 4MB/sec.
... but anyway, I love my Peg more and more, although, I don't know why
bye

I used a PEG I with April 2 during a long time and testing a lot of
pplications and PCI cards.

The only bug I found with the Aprilized PEG was the TV PCI card with
an AGP video card.

The TV PCI card with PCI GFX card works great.

Just one question:

You have the 2nd level cache enabled, have you?

Cheers
Gunnar

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Gunnar,

How is this done. Is it ok on the Peg1 April2?

Thanks!

David

You should enter the following as argument to the boot-command for linux:

l2cr=0x80000000

e.g.:

boot vmlinuz root=/dev/hda10 mem=256m video=radeon:1024x768-8@70,noaccel l2cr=0x80000000 hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi


But I've a question, too.

On the PegII has the second level cache to be enables, too?

Regards

[ Edited by Henri on 2005/1/15 12:29 ]

Ehh, I had been using Visionary WITH overlay for quite a long time, really... And I always use the fullresolution arguement.

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Which TV card do you use? And which video card? Thanks!

It worked with a Voodoo3 PCI, the TV card doesn't matter at all, most of them use the same chipset and a different tuner. To be honest, I haven't tried with the Radeon.

I don't know if it's a hardware related bug, but sometimes when I shut down my Linux, then the Pegasos 2 will just reboot directly to the Open Firmware and tell me that there are no harddrives present or a similar bullshit message ;)
It's a bit annoying, but I really don't know what's the cause. Maybe it's the reason they didn't implement a shutdown feature in MorphOS ;)

I'm using a Peg1 in conjunction with Debian Sarge.

In order to get working the L2 cache, is it necesary too to add this command to the boot commando when runnning Sarge?

Thanks in advance. Javier.