Note: Sorry if this shows up twice, but both my responses (to David and Joseph) seem to have been lost in a black hole...
quoth the David Gurvich:
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 imagine I will use 7.0. Is putting: VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" in make.conf enough to get the drivers I need? Sorry for the stupid questions, but all my x86 boxes have nVidia cards, and I have never used an ATI card with Linux...
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.
After going through the package database pretty much all the software I absolutely require is stable for PPC64, so I guess I'm all good. -d -- http://badcomputer.org -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
