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

[Derick Centeno]

Hi Warren:

Bill or someone from Fixstars should be jumping to help you here.   
However being the wonderful fellow that I am - :-D -  I'll point out  
that the PowerStation runs YDL as it's native OS and is sold  
exclusively from Fixstars - formerly TSS.  The PowerStation CPU  
already is a 4 core Cell although the whole package can be modified -  
read customized - by Fixstars to your needs.

Here's the link which addresses your concerns:

http://us.fixstars.com/store/index.php?submit=hardware&submitimg 
[hardware][powerstation]=1

Consider that to whatever configuration you choose you can also add  
to the PowerStation this board which should provide you which as much  
power as you may need:

http://www.fixstars.com/en/products/gigaaccel180/

Warren, tell me truly.  You want this...

Remember that Apple tied OS X to run on only machines it produces  
except in one case.  In that one exception that company is producing  
a re-engineered Mac laptop as an Intel based tablet PC.  Really  
original thinking, huh?  Sure.

Hopefully, the above has helped.

All the best...

On Dec 8, 2008, at 12:56 PM, Warren Nagourney wrote:

> 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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