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.
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. Conclusion: Always keep a kernel on an HFS part or even on CD ! Gruss, Schlomo -- Schlomo Schapiro Senior System Administrator MobilEye Vision Technologies Ltd. 24 Mishol Hadkalim St., Jerusalem, Israel Telephone: + 972-2-586-6989 Ext. 131 Mobile: + 972-55-767898 Fax: + 972-2-586-7720 email: schapiro@mobileye.com WWW: http://www.mobileye.com