Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-ppc (72 mails)

[harryc <harryc56@xxxxxxxxx>]

BandiPat wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 October 2005 09:51 am, harryc wrote:
> [...]
>   
> > I am running a Powermac G4 Digital Audio with a stock video card and
> > a GB of RAM. Other than the YaST partitioner issue that you already
> > mentioned, I am having no other issues except for the overall
> > limitations of Linux on PPC , which include - no flash player, no
> > JAVA, and no 3D video drivers. Also at the present time, there
> > doesn't seem to be many multimedia libraries in the repositories. I
> > am running RealPlayer just to hear streaming audio, when I'd much
> > prefer Amarok or Beep Media Player.
> > Harryc
> > --
> >     
> =========
>
> Thanks Harryc,
> Now this brings up some other questions for me.  What video card are you 
> using?  I thought nVidia had drivers for PPC and usually the included 
> modules for ATI in the kernel work nicely for their cards.
>
> I do know of a source for JAVA for PPC, so that's not a problem.  Check 
> Blackdown JAVA for that!  I think they have a 1.3.x version ready now 
> and the newest should be there soon.  Didn't know there were no flash 
> players for PPC.  I would have thought those were provided somewhere.  
> Wonder if they have just the stand alone version available for PPC?  I 
> know I use that as well as the plugin on x86 now and both work by 
> setting the file associations in Konq.  Probably wouldn't work in 
> Firefox or Mozilla though.
>
> Yep, no codecs available for PPC yet for many of the multimedia 
> things.  :-(
>
> Let's hope that will be fixed soon too, but having been out of PPC for a 
> while, I'm not sure where to turn to help that situation.  Luckily 
> RealPlayer will come to the rescue in the interim.  So basically you 
> didn't have any problems using SuSE's obscure method of booting and 
> installing then?  What about partitioning your drive and are you 
> running a dual boot?
>
> Thanks again, this really helps!  I'm like a sponge, absorbing all this 
> new info!  ;o)
>
> Rusty
>
>   
Thanks for the Blackdown JAVA tip. I should have remembered it because 
I've used it on x86-64 installs before. I am not totally up on 3D 
support for PPC, but I saw this at openSUSE.org, so I was basing my 
comments on it;

http://www.opensuse.org/PowerPC_X11_configuration

I was looking for nvidia drivers for the GF2 MX400 card in the G4. Do 
they exist? I could not find them at nvidia. As far a partitioning goes, 
I just installed over existing Ubuntu partitions. Personally, if I had 
to do it from scratch, I'd probably use the Ubuntu installer just to set 
up the partitions and yaboot, then install openSUSe 10.0. I am no expert 
on partitioning tools, so I am sure there are many alternate methods. 
Yes I am running dual boot. You need to pay attention to setting up Lilo 
per these instructions;

http://www.opensuse.org/PPC:Boot_pmac

Good luck.