I have a fresh install of Debian on a Power Mac 8500. This is an "old world" machine, with ADB keyboard and mouse and a PowerPC 604 processor.
Using the framebuffer server, X startx up without complaint but I can't move the mouse. /dev/mouse is linked to /dev/input/mice. The major and minor numbers are 13, 63. I also tried linking it to /dev/input/mouse0, with numbers 13,32. Still no go. I'm wondering if recompiling my kernel will help, and if so which kernel you would consider best to use. I am having good results with 2.4.3 on a Pentium III laptop running Slackware, but I've never built a PowerPC linux kernel before. The reason I think a new kernel may help is that the boot-floppy-hfs.img failed to respond to my keyboard when I tried to install from a floppy; I couldn't continue the boot after inserting the root floppy, and searching the web found several references to this problem from other people. I'm thinking that the stock debian kernels in potato current may have problems with ADB that I could get past if I build my own. It's pretty cool running Debian on my Mac, BTW. I tried out mkLinux on this same mac quite a while back, but it was pretty rough around the edges and I didn't do that much with it. The debian potato linux for PowerPC, despite my problems, looks much more robust. One more question - the X server started up fine as it was configured by default but does not have accellerated video. My Mac doesn't support accellerated 3D but I think it does support 2D accelleration. Can I do this with the framebuffer driver? Do I need to compile in a different framebuffer driver than the one that comes with the stock kernel? Will 2D accelleration work on this mac with a 2.2 kernel or will I need a 2.4 kernel? Regards, Mike Crawford -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.
