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