Re: PPC Ubuntu Linux first impressions

From: cutterjohn (some_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 10/23/04

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    On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 06:48:21 +0000, Jon Cortelyou wrote:

    > I have an 600 MHz iBook 'dual USB' with 256 MB of memory and a DVD-ROM
    > drive.
    > http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=43091
    >
    >
    > Ok, Ubuntu installed off the CD created via the v4.10 RC .iso image. It
    > also updated itself via the Internet as part of the second phase of the
    > install without a problem.
    >
    > It booted first try to a very clean looking Gnome GUI again without a
    > problem. Mozilla Firefox v0.92 worked like a charm. Various other
    > standard Linux utils worked fine as well.
    >
    > Problems:
    > I did find was that video DVDs would not play at all with their DVD player
    > Totem. Neither would audio CDs with any of the audio playing programs that
    > were installed. However the CD player did detect the CD and the displayed
    > the correct album title song list for the CD.
    >

    IF you get DVDs running let us know how sound is... I never managed to
    get sound out properly on an ibook G3/500 & YDL 3.0.1(or 2.3) even
    rebuilding xine myself, and trying others suggestions with mplayer, ogle,
    or vlc.

    > I also noticed that it detected my Airport card in the iBook during the
    > install process but once it fully booted up the Airport did not appear in
    > the network devices list. However, I didn't try fiddling with the airport
    > card since I do not have wireless Internet access at home to test it with.
    > All in all though I'm impress with such a good effort for a PPC build of
    > Linux! A hearty pat on the back to the devs out there making Ubuntu a
    > reality!

    Even with YDL, I had to manually configure airport, even though it was
    detected as with ubuntu. As a side note, I do not run DHCP, so it was
    just a matter of setting up a static address in my case, but it does work.

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