PPC Linux

dublinclontarf · 08-02-2004, 01:48 PM

Some of the distros available for the PPC(mostly macs) are Debian, Gentoo, Slackintosh, YellowDogLinux, Mandrake9.1 to name a few.

I have an iBook,
800Mhz, 256Mb RAM 30Gb Hd & a Radeon mobility 9200 32Mb
What I would like to know is which distro can get X to work at all?
Or can I get X to work myself by dsownloading the latest version of X.org & compiling myself?

slackMeUp · 08-02-2004, 02:46 PM

Gentoo

dublinclontarf · 08-02-2004, 03:06 PM

k ill give gentoo a try, but my last experience wasnt the best.
On the plus side though everything will be installed from source.
its gona take me over a week to get around to it though.
Thanks

linuxhaxz · 08-02-2004, 06:08 PM

Ibooks can be a pain due to the bus architecture, but thought it may be sorted on the newer ones (mostly probs with booting)

If you need more i will scan my severely groaning bookcase for info.

I am currently running my own lfs on a Quicksilver G4, that was built by first installing an old copy of PPCLinux.

slackMeUp · 08-02-2004, 06:47 PM

I just said Gentoo, because a friend of mine uses it with his iBook G4 and it works fine.

(and I thought YDL supported your iBook?)

dublinclontarf · 08-03-2004, 02:59 AM

it does but YDL3.1 doesnt have the X drivers for the ati radeon mobility 9000 graphics card.so no GUI at all,
Apparently though YDL4 will.
thats supposed to be comeing out this week i think.
ill be downloading a copy ASAP and if it works, well it works.
supposed to be based on fedora core2 i think.

slackMeUp · 08-03-2004, 12:01 PM

That's not what I read. ..

You can use a fbdev for your video. . . with YDL that is.

dublinclontarf · 08-04-2004, 06:19 AM

you wouldnt know where there is a howto for that by any chance?

slackMeUp · 08-05-2004, 05:54 PM

Once installed. . .
As root:
Xautoconfig --fbdev

Taken from here. . . the YDL hardware support page for YOUR iBook. Funny how I found it there eh?

http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/suppor...hp?hw_cat_id=3