hi i have finally booted my original powerbookG3 (aka 3400 form factor). use a custom kernel 2.6.18-2 that i actually built last november for 3400.
seems the black screen i got trying to boot either sarge or etch stock kernels before was related to ramdisk. no ramdisk used in what i am booting now. just did dist-upgrade from sarge base and everything looks good. actually pretty good. machine has 160MB RAM and a new 20GB Samsung HD w/8MB cache. the console comes up in greyscale mode and a little bit dim, however X starts up fine in colors and nice and bright. image quality is as good or better than on my pismo powerbook except there is still occasional discoloration (it was typical of the model). from searching the web it was rumored this machine could not boot any 2.6 kernels. well not so. but i did need another computer to build the kernel and then a way to get the modules transfered. have to thank ydl2.3 for the latter and etch on a G4 for the former. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
