12" G4/800 iBook video question

Charles Pillsbury yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Mon Jul 12 18:39:01 2004


oh... no... hadn't seen that one... thank you much, I'll give it a try tonight.

CharlesP


On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:22:43 -0400, David Hacker <dhacker@intrstar.net> wrote:
> 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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