From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GUtQu-00065J-U9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2006 23:12:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k93NBGff019320; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 23:11:16 GMT Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.176]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k93NBE7Q030313 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 23:11:15 GMT Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id d42so2509715pyd for ; Tue, 03 Oct 2006 16:11:14 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=WhWtnm7gbygVuLWUgyBxNyh11A0zDf8d9MnhC8XMkYhD8IBFccxDp/HUxOvq/GjUK+DnqF2hwBkYeeN+X52TjWmpLLqZ9m8RxrmHBNPVTE/xh7smqNSJnaxaCpWWM8ikDOwGFeGwUOqUgE72NIY+uaumEWgJqxnVzZXrOVQsynE= Received: by 10.65.59.19 with SMTP id m19mr10082862qbk; Tue, 03 Oct 2006 16:11:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.76.4 with HTTP; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 16:11:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 16:11:14 -0700 From: "Darren Kirby" To: gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-ppc-user] RE: Installing Gentoo on a Powermac G5 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Archives-Salt: 8407369c-fef5-4571-9dc0-e9f5e2706bf1 X-Archives-Hash: c0401e20a936335bc153c82628c4325e Note: Sorry if this shows up twice, but both my responses (to David and Joseph) seem to have been lost in a black hole... quoth the David Gurvich: > The video should not be a big problem. If you are going to use xorg-7.1, > make sure to apply the patch to the ati driver. I could not get xorg.conf > set up correctly, until Xorgautoconfig gave me a starting point. I imagine I will use 7.0. Is putting: VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" in make.conf enough to get the drivers I need? Sorry for the stupid questions, but all my x86 boxes have nVidia cards, and I have never used an ATI card with Linux... > I haven't used ppc64, but many of the developers are doing so. In fact, > I've had to add ppc to ebuilds that had ppc64 in the KEYWORDS, but not ppc. > I don't know about mixing ppc32 and ppc64 apps, but perhaps a chroot > environment such as that used in amd64 might be possible. After going through the package database pretty much all the software I absolutely require is stable for PPC64, so I guess I'm all good. -d -- http://badcomputer.org -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list