On Thu, Dec 06, Schlomo Schapiro wrote:
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Olaf Hering wrote:
I think we should at least increase that to the spring 2001 Powerbooks and ibooks. G4 with nvidia cards are still problematic, the nvidia card might not work correctly, only via openfirmware framebuffer. But running it as server should be no problem.
That would certainly help a lot of people because like this it looks like SuSE PPC runs only on really old HW.
Does anybody ever had success using X on a G4 with nvidia card ? I am using it as server right now, but I would be more than glad to use it as a workstation, too.
Try that as a kernel arg with the 2.4.12 kernel: video=rivafb:1280x1024-8@60 or video=rivafb:1024x768-8@75
The very new ibook and powerbook need a newer kernel, I prepared a boot iso image, it should be appear on the ftp server tomorrow, have to test it first. check http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/history.html
Oh yes, I installed 2.4.12 & ext3 on my G4 and then one day it won't boot because yaboot didn't want to load the kernel from the unchecked ext3 volume (after a ieee1394 related crash) and of course the 2.4.2 kernel on the CD didn't know about ext3. In the end I was saved by the 2.4.16 in the BETA subdir. Thanks a lot for it.
You need a newer yaboot. grab the 1.3 from penguinppc.org, extract the tar.gz with tar xfz yaboot-1.3.6.tar.gz cd yaboot-1.3.6 make yaboot cp second/yaboot /boot/ lilo This has a newer ext2 lib, it can read a crashed ext3 filesystem. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...