mol feedback + question about G4-Altivec support

[Percy Zahl]

Just a note according to AltiVec/G4:
I've Debian/Woody too on my PBG4 (early model w. DVD only), and the
AltiVec didn't worked for me since I've updated to
"Mac-on-Linux 0.9.63".
Now it is using G4/AltiVec mode.

I've some issues too:
Do you got the Network working? What are the minor/major needed for
the /deb/sheep_net ?? (I do not have it and need to make it w
mknod...)

Minor stuff: sound -- it complains "can't open /dev/dsp", may be
because my (working) esd is locking it? Can mol use esd??

have fun w mol,
Percy Zahl

David Stanaway writes:
 > Hi there,
 > 
 > I am very happy to have found mol, and it works very well for me..
 > (Comparing it to experience with Win4Lin on x86 especially)
 > 
 > There are a couple of things that I had some trouble with however...
 > 
 > 1) CD-ROM support.
 > For a long time, I was not able to read anything off the CD-ROM at all..
 > (Even with -force in the blkdev: entry), I only got it to work when I
 > enabled SCSI emulation for hdc. 
 > 
 > Is SCSI emulation required for CD-ROM support in mol? I didn't read this
 > anywhere and found it out by accident (Trying to get Audio CD's to play
 > which is another unrelated matter).
 > 
 > My machine is a PowerBook G4 . Early version with a DVD-ROM (But no
 > CD-RW :/).
 > 
 > Even with this, I need to have the CD I want to read in mol inserted
 > before I start mol.
 > 
 > 2) sheep_net.
 > This is probably more a debian package issue than a mol issue.
 > /dev/sheep_net is not created or checked for by the debian mol packages.
 > I could find no documentation for the major/minor character device
 > numbers for this device in the user manual (Which is not in the debian
 > package.. only online), and only found it by searching the list
 > archives. 
 > Maybe information about creating this device node could be added to the
 > Networking section of the user manual.
 > 
 > 3) Altivec support/ Processor type specification does not seem to work
 > for me. 
 > mol uses a G3 processor type, and reports that altivec support was:
 > AltiVec unavailable or disabled by user - reverting to G3 mode
 > 
 > In my /etc/molrc I have:
 > processor:		G4
 > disable_altivec:	no
 > 
 > Is this all I need?
 > 
 > I can provide my full config file and the full output of startmol if it
 > would help.
 > 
 > Anyway.
 > 
 > Thanks again :) Keep up the good work.
 > 
 > --
 > David Stanaway
 >