On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Richard (MQ)
I'm pleased to report a considerable degree of success with 11.1 RC1 on a 1999 Mac Powerbook G3 (Lombard), also on an iMac of the same era (which behaves very similarly).
Glad to hear it. I just haven't had time to do any real testing on my machines. I plan to get RC1 on my B&W G3 with a G3/400 and a G4/400 sometime this week.
1. suggesting formatting of the small hfs (boot?) partition, which will fail with error -3023 setting partition label. Bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447782, but work-around is not to agree to formatting, it seems to work OK thus far...
IIRC, 11.0 does the same thing. I just did a re-install on my Wallstreet and used a 100MB HFS directory as /boot. YaST gave me an error message, but it worked ok and I had the kernels available to me on OS 9, which is something I have struggled with on Old World Macs. I'm working on a writeup for Old World Machines, and I think this will work well on these machines that can't directly boot Linux. If I run into a problem with it on RC1, I will post a bug about it. Not the same thing, but a similar type issue.
3. Sound works, but volume controls / mixers / mute don't https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450970
I'll look into that one on my B&W.
4. Openoffice isn't available to install (don't know the bug ID but it's well reported).
Couldn't tell you there cause I don't install it. I do know that Peter has a thread open about it.
Not looking *too* bad for GM whenever that will be - still on 16th maybe...?
18th actually. The 16th is my son's B-Day. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+help@opensuse.org