[ydl-gen] YDL 6 on a ibook G4 800 Mhz

[Warren Nagourney]

Thanks, Bill and Derick.

After a little more searching, I found someone who claims that 3D  
acceleration does indeed work on the ibook, at least somewhat. His  
test of working 3D is that he gets 850 fps from the glxgears OpenGL  
demo.

I actually have 2D acceleration on my PS3 - I used the hack which was  
closed out about a year ago by Sony's deliberate change to the  
firmware (which I haven't upgraded).  Moving windows is silky smooth,  
but scrolling inside windows is often slow.  However, OpenGL (using  
Mesa) is adequately fast for my physics demos (I was surprised by  
this). The slow scrolling together with glacial disk speeds on the  
PS3 (I think everything goes through the hypervisor) makes the PS3 a  
little less attractive than a well-supported linux computer, though I  
still plan to do some spu programming to get my optical design  
software running very fast.

Regarding the Powerstation - it does indeed look to be a very nice  
(and affordable) system.  I was thinking of buying a used quad  
processor Apple G5, but some experience with a G5 I borrowed from  
work (before I retired) has dissuaded me: the power supply literally  
blew up with lots of smoke, etc. I have subsequently found that this  
is a common problem and think I will stay away from the Apple G5s,  
though they seem superbly well engineered in other respects. I expect  
that there will be a version of the Powerstation with a cell  
processor (or two) - I will probably wait until then. By the way, can  
the Powerstation run OS X?

cheers,

wn

On Dec 8, 2008, at 3:11 AM, Bill Mueller wrote:

>
>
> Warren,
>
> I have a similar ibook running YDL6 (slightly faster), 2D accel
> is working fine for video, desktop windows, etc...
>
> I have not tried 3D.
>
> -Bill
>
> On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 21:43:56 -0800, Warren Nagourney
> <warren at phys.washington.edu> wrote:
>> Thanks, Derick. I didn't see anything about video acceleration. It
>> said that there are "no outstanding issues"; this means that video
>> works, but is not necessarily accelerated. From my earlier posts over
>> the last two years (first about my PB 17 and later about my PS3), you
>> might have concluded that I am allergic to slow and "choppy" video.
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Warren Nagourney
>>
>> On Dec 7, 2008, at 7:29 PM, Derick Centeno wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Warren:
>>>
>>> According to this page:
>>>
>>> http://us.fixstars.com/support/hardware/apple-ibook.shtml
>>>
>>> You shouldn't have any problems running YDL 6 on it.  As far as
>>> wireless follow the instructions here:
>>>
>>> http://us.fixstars.com/support/solutions/ydl_5.x/airport- 
>>> extreme.shtml
>>>
>>> All the best...
>>>
>>> On Dec 7, 2008, at 9:40 PM, Warren Nagourney wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I recently inherited a supposedly broken ibook G4 800 MHz (from my
>>>> stepdaughter, who can afford a newer computer) and am thinking of
>>>> installing YDL 6 on it. The machine actually works fine and has 640
>>>> Mb of ram. My questions are:
>>>>
>>>> Is there any video acceleration to speak of? It has a Radeon  
>>>> 9200 and
>>>> most queries to the net return with the claim that there is no 3D
>>>> acceleration. Is this still true? (I would probably skip it if  
>>>> so - I
>>>> have enough annoyance with slow video on my PS3 linux system).
>>>>
>>>> Is WIFI supported? (I have an airport extreme card).
>>>>
>>>> If anyone has tried it, does it run well?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Warren Nagourney
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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