Thanks again, Stephen. If I ever reformat my hard disk and add a linux partition, I will use your kernel.
I just installed OS X 10.5 on my 800 MHz iBook and was astounded at how much zippier and smoother it is than Tiger. Since Apple's cut- off is 867 MHz, I needed to use the leopardassistant to fool the OF into thinking I had a 867 MHz machine. In my more paranoid moments, I thought that Apple would deliberately cripple later releases of its OS to "encourage" people to buy new x86 machines but I was wrong. This is the problem with linux, in my opinion. Despite being open source, the hardware is decidedly closed, particularly the GPU, upon which so much of the user experience depends. Apple has full access to the GPU and can use it to speed up video (using "core video") in ways that no linux can (even x86 linux). Right now the bottom end iBook is a delight to use and the contrast with my former experience with linux on it couldn't be more stark. In my opinion, this will never change with PPC hardware, which is a tiny niche of a small niche. It would be nice if a PPC vendor like Fixstars could fix this, but they would need serious cooperation from the GPU manufacturers and that is likely not forthcoming (the PS3 linux disaster is a case at point). Cheers, wn On Jan 17, 2009, at 8:19 PM, Stephen Harker wrote: > I should have looked at my notes. The thing that got accelerated X11 > working on my iBook G4 was building my own kernel. I built 2.6.27.8 > prior to updating to ydl6.1. This allowed me to have a common kernel > on my 7600 and iBook. With the default kenrel I don't get accelerated > X11, but with mine I do. For what it may be worth I attach my > .config which includes things that won't be useful for most people, I > started with 'make pmac32_defconig'. > > -- > Stephen Harker s.har...@adfa.edu.au > PEMS > u...@adfa<.config>_______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list > yellowdog-general@lists.fixstars.com > http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> > site:terrasoftsolutions.com' _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list yellowdog-general@lists.fixstars.com http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'