SuSE Linux PowerPC: Versions since 7.0
What kind of hardware problems do the newer Apple computers have?
This graphics card virtually does not work currently and we advise against them.
The current status is that a framebuffer driver should be finished by kernel version 2.4.3 or 2.4.4.
These cards virtually do not work currently and we advise against them.
The support is being worked on.
They work with the current kernel 2.4.x with the following limitations:
A solution is being worked on, but we can't tell you when that will be finished...
We haven't got one, wo we can't test it, but as far as we know it should work. A kernel and XF86 4.x configurations can be found on:
http://ftp.linuxppc.org/kernels/titanium/
This is a 2.4.2 kernel. The installation must be done from hard disk (no CDROM...). Possible kernel arguments are:
video=ofonly
(allegedly the absolute safe method) or
video=aty128fb
(vmode and cmode allegedly also possible) and the console can set to 1152x768 with:
fbset -g 1152 768 1152 768 32
Apart from keyboards, mice and popular printers, USB devices don't work very often. In particular, it is not possible to install on USB storage devices. the situation might improve due to ongoing development on this sector, though.
All new Macs have 2 Firewire connectors. Unfortunately the Firewire support is currently only beta. At this time, we don't know about any Firewire devices that work under Linux for PPC. We hope (and are confident) that this will improve in the future.
To sum it up, the situation is not so nice with the fast new G4s and the new graphics cards, but that's the challenge, isn't it? More information can be found at
http://penguinppc.org/usr/hardware/edge.shtml
The authoritative list of supported machines is here: olh_ppc_machines
If you have any information we don't have we wouldn't mind getting to know about it: Send Mail to suse-ppc@suse.com
(Please refer to the keyword: PPC-INFO
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