Update: Installing v10.1 on B&W G3
Well, I am finally installing v10.1 on my Blue & White G3. There is evidently a bug in the ATI setup with this machine. No matter what I did, I was unable to get YaST to actually start installing the system with my ATI 3D Rage II card w/ 4MB VRAM. I finally dug out an old IXMicro Twin Turbo/8M card and it is now installing. I had problems with this card overheating and locking the system up, so I have a fan on the main chip and it is fine. I also overclocked the G4/400 to 450Mhz. With a small fan on the heat sink, it is running a cool 26-28 degrees C while installing. I'm almost tempted to try 500Mhz. Maybe. I must say it is definately installing a whole lot faster than my Beige G3 ever did. At least now I know it is not the machine that was the problem. With the Twin Turbo card, the graphical X installation fails, but it automatically loads the text based system. I am curious to see if it will actuallu run X on this card since I was only able to do so once before, and it quit working after I tried to modify the X settings. Last thing - Does anyone know how much Linux is actually able to make use of the Altivec instructions on the G4? PowerLogix has a G3/1.0Ghz that I am thinking about getting, and if there isn't that much support for the Atlivec, is there any other reason to stay with the G4? Thanx ___________________________________________________ Try the New Netscape Mail Today! Virtually Spam-Free | More Storage | Import Your Contact List http://mail.netscape.com
On Thu, May 25, larrystotler@netscape.net wrote:
Last thing - Does anyone know how much Linux is actually able to make use of the Altivec instructions on the G4? PowerLogix has a G3/1.0Ghz that I am thinking about getting, and if there isn't that much support for the Atlivec, is there any other reason to stay with the G4? Thanx
Unless the apps are compiled with -mcpu=G4, no altivec will be used. I tried that recently on a G5, the overall amount of generated altivec code was low. Either because there was nothing to optimize, or because gcc isnt smart enough.
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