12" G4/800 iBook video question

[David Hacker]

Have you tried the ibook kernel here?

http://ppckernel.org/kernel.php?id=21

David C. Hacker, DVM
On Jul 12, 2004, at 6:36 PM, Charles Pillsbury wrote:

> well... I split my already sparse 30 gig partition down to 20 gig for
> OS X and ~9 for Linux... installed YDL and get my ugly 4 color X
> working... and I'm fearing the reformat and re-install on the linux
> partition... APPARENTLY there's a 'working on ibook G4' kernel out
> there (and YDL ISOs too)... though not readily available for download
> it seems... still hunting down that possability.
>
> CharlesP
>
> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 15:31:50 -0700 (PDT), Norberto Quintanar
> <nquintanar@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> --- Charles Pillsbury <> wrote:
>>> I'm used to randomly hunting down RPMs or compiling from source for
>>> this sort of thing... how does one do this in yum and YDL?  I'll
>>> admit
>>> I'm much more skiddish about trying things on this machine than I
>>> am
>>> doing them on my old x86 Linux boxes for some reason...
>>>
>>> CharlesP
>>
>> Charles, I've heard rumors of people getting 3d acceleration w/ the
>> ATI 9200 under Linux with the 2.6.X  kernel and the latest and
>> greatest  X rpm.  But most of the people who have reported to this
>> list have not been able to get it running.  This usually initiates a
>> Gentoo or Debian is better  flame war, but YMMV.
>>
>> Good luck in getting it to work.
>>
>> Norberto
>>
>> PS If you decide on YDL be prepared to reformat, repartition and
>> re-install a few times.
>>
>>
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