Fedora PPC things...

[Colin Charles]

On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 13:28 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:

> > 3. sound is still relatively broken
> 
> No problems so far on my mac. The microphone does not work.

Okay, will have to verify this later. Is it just arecord thats possibly
broken though?

> > 10. spanking MiniMac support? 
> 
> Isn't that just an iBook in a different case?

No, I don't think so. We'll see

> 11. We need a working kernel. The last one working for me is 2.6.9-1.667.
>     Later kernels have trouble with ptrace, or do not exist at all.

Use dwmw2's kernels, and rawhide should have ppc32 again

> 12. Firewire detection does not work, at least on my iBook. Firewire itself
>     works when you manually load the driver.
>     (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140753)

Funny, worked on my iBook g3 without issue. I'll test this in a week and
get back to you

> Note: all hardware notes above are from a 500MHz iBook2.

iBook 2.2, 800MHz

BTW, please cc fedora-ppc list
(it accepts postings from everyone, iirc)
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