someone may come along and submit a new build -- maybe me. You never know! It's not that hard to build -- I have built TenFourFox about 1,000 times already on MacOX Tiger. Can't be any harder than that!
Ken On 2025-01-24, at 12:36 PM, Raphaël Rignier wrote: > Thanks for the tip! > I gave sealion a chance. > First launch returned me libffi.so.6 not found error. > I tried a quick and dirty backward compatibility tip. > > Ln -s libffi.so.6 libffi.so.8 > > And it worked. > > Sealion is indeed better. GitHub page for example render correct. > > On the other Hand seems there will be no other version for ppc64 linux. As > mainteners are missing. > > Thanks again! > > Le jeu. 23 janv. 2025, 16:12, Ken Cunningham > <ken.cunningham.web...@gmail.com> a écrit : > a number of users find SeaLion quite useful on ppc linux. > > github — wicknix/SeaLion > > I see a new build for ppc linux happened in November. > > There is a newer version since then, but it awaits a linux build. > > K > >> On Jan 23, 2025, at 06:42, Raphaël Rignier <raph...@rignier.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> Le mar. 21 janv. 2025 à 19:06, Raphaël Rignier <raph...@rignier.com> a écrit >> : >> >> Le lun. 13 janv. 2025 à 14:06, Raphaël Rignier <raph...@rignier.com> a écrit >> : >> Hello, I tried to install a debian distribution to revive an old aluminium >> bi G5 7.3 >> essentially because I have a very nice Full HD 23 cinema screen to plug with >> (dvi like apple property) >> >> I started with the debian 8 powerpc 32bits, last officially supported. >> Install from CD works good. >> But startx icewm gave me black screen and cursor only. >> >> On a second hrd drive I tempted with de ppc64 port unstable, surprisingly it >> installs OK from CD, default graphical grub is somewhat strange colors but >> OK. >> LXDE has some glitches, task bar is half the size of the screen but its >> usable. Problem is with firefox wich segfault. >> I need some decent (not really up to date) browser to do some admin tasks. >> >> I then revert back to jessie with the noaccel boot argument and startx >> launch correctly. Some glitches on the taskbar. >> Firefox from jessie works too but many display related errors slows it down. >> >> I wanted to try with the nv driver which seems more stable from what I have >> read but not present on jessie. >> I'm quite familiar with sources packages and tried the dpkg-buildpackage >> from release found in repository but build failed because of missing >> librairies not present in xorg from jessie. >> >> I have stopped here I use now the Firefox for jessie which have although not >> always working slide bar. >> >> Does someone know what I could do to get this better ? >> Thanks ! >> >> >> Hello, I go back with further tests on my installation : Firefox from jessie >> is unstable and crash too often so not a solution. >> By reading archives I saw many threads are around the same subject : get a >> decent web browser working on ppc64. >> >> I've read about arcticfox : A firefox with improved ppc64 big endian >> compatibility, which seems best solution for now. >> So booted to sid, add repository from powerprogress.org. Quite odd to get it >> working with gpg keys but finaly succeeded. >> Arctifox is release 40 and works great on my G5. Even if old (version 40) >> it suits my needs for admin interfaces. I can now enjoy the apple cinema >> display. >> >> I've got now a strange network problem. My interfaces file set static IP, >> but 1 minute or so after ifup I get another apipa IP address which breaks my >> network connection. >> After many tries, I'm still getting this supplementary IP which make it >> quite frustrating. >> If I boot in single user mode (recvovery) no network problem. My guess is >> the graphical layer which adds some automation. >> I'll continue investigate and get back with a new trhead if needed. >> >> Thanks ! >> >> >> OK By digging a little more, I found the culprit : connman which was >> installed by lxde. Which makes sense on a traditional desktop to get >> automatic network connection. >> I was aware of Network-Manager but not connman. NM knows how to avoid >> interfaces statically declared in /etc/network/interfaces. Connman seems to >> need additional config. So I disabled it, and rebooted. >> >> Know I use graphical session with good old icewm by launching startx, and >> arcticfox for my web needs. Slow and not always good rendering on web pages >> (as expected) but at least it works. >>
