On Nov 8, 2005, at 9:26 PM, Andy Botting wrote:
Hi Parag,
I was thinking about getting one of the new 15" PowerBooks (hi-res,
powerbook5,8, but I've been
reading about this problem.
I first found out about this problem on the Gentoo Forums from this
post:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-396455.html
Then I read a little more about it on the linuxppc-dev list:
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-October/020222.html
On the linuxppc-dev list, there are some patches to enable the ATA
controller, Gigabit ethernet
and basic AGP setup. I guess it's probably a matter of patching the
2.6.14 source and booting
that.
Hi Andy
If you are still thinking on buying the new PB, I would suggest to
wait for some time - there seem to be serious display problems with
the new versions and Apple is claiming some of the problems are
'within spec'. (Fortunately mine doesn't have any so far.)
On the Linux installation front, I tried the boot cd from the URL
posted in the Gentoo PPC forum (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-
t-396455.html?sid=a2970b2b2db4c89e9961b90aed629f58) but it fails to
boot. I don't have any working Linux/PPC box to build the CD myself
with the new patches. So I guess I am stuck till someone makes a
bootable CD with the relevant patches.
Thanks
Parag
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