The video should not be a big problem. If you are going to use xorg-7.1, make sure to apply the patch to the ati driver. I could not get xorg.conf set up correctly, until Xorgautoconfig gave me a starting point.
I haven't used ppc64, but many of the developers are doing so. In fact, I've had to add ppc to ebuilds that had ppc64 in the KEYWORDS, but not ppc. I don't know about mixing ppc32 and ppc64 apps, but perhaps a chroot environment such as that used in amd64 might be possible. On Tuesday 03 October 2006 16:26, darren kirby wrote: > Hello all, > > Hardware: > PowerPC G5, dual 2GHz CPUs, 1.5GB RAM > > I am no stranger to installing Gentoo, but I have questions that don't > appear to be answered in the PPC64 handbook. I am waiting for a new SATA > drive here, and when it arrives I intend to install Gentoo on it. A few Qs: > > 1. OS X is on the first sata drive, Gentoo will be on the second. Is it > still necessary to create the 'apple_bootstrap' partition if Gentoo will be > on its own complete disk? > > 2. If I follow the PPC64 guide does this give me the 64bit userland? If so, > is there enough (hard) unmasked software to use this as a general desktop > machine? Is all software in the package database marked stable under PPC64 > 64bit userland software? Can I mix and match PPC32 and PPC64 software? Any > and all information on this issue would be most helpful, as I don't think I > completely understand it (I don't have an x86-64 machine so I am mostly > ignorant of 64bit issues). > > 3. I have the 23 inch Cinema display and a ATI Radeon 9600 Pro vidcard. Are > there drivers that can make this setup work? I ask because I booted the > machine with a Kubuntu PPC livecd to play around and while the cli worked, > when it came time for X to start the screen went black and I was forced to > do a hard reset. I am not sure if this was just a problem with Kubuntu, or > some other reason. I am not too concerned with hardware acceleration or > anything, at most I just want to be able to watch DVDs. > > Apropos, if any one has the same, or a similar setup I would love if you > could send me your xorg.conf. > > Again, I am very familiar with Gentoo, but have little knowledge of PPC > hardware and 64 bit issues...pointers to docs that explain differences and > ramification on this topic would be great. > > Thanks for consideration. > -d > -- > darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org > "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more > expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- *--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--* KMail on Gentoo/PPC -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
