[HOWTO] Install Gentoo on a Powerbook Aluminium G4 1GHz 15in

henryko · n00b Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 5

BTW, how long can the battery last for the PB? both on Mac OS X and Gentoo?

Thanks

silian87 · Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 6:06 pm Post subject:

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frameRATE · Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 9:24 pm Post subject:

Sound on my iBook is REAL quiet. amixer is set to 85%. it's loud enough at first, for about half a second then gets real quiet. (mplayer)

Suggestions?
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xavier10 · Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 9:49 am Post subject:

The batteries of my powerbook 15" do not last long. At most 2 hours, both under linux and OSX. Not good.

schlesi · Posted: Sat May 21, 2005 5:09 pm Post subject: @xavier10

Download iBat http://http://raynersoftware.com/ibatt/ and check the capacity of your battery ("Statistics"). Compare it with the specs of your battery. May be your battery has already lost a lot of it's capacity?

In addition, download X-Charge http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/15982 and watch the graph of how your battery is charging and discharging.

Thomas

gnomeza · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Dec 2003 Posts: 97

I spent this weekend playing with the R300 drivers at http://r300.sourceforge.net/ and I can say that they're looking pretty good.

For those who don't know, you need FIVE things working for proper 3D acceleration:

AGP drivers - for fast AGP transfers, provided by uninorth-agp kernel module
kernel DRM - provides direct access to the hardware through drm.ko and radeon.ko
radeon driver for Xorg - graphics driver, radeon_drv.o
R300 DRI driver for Xorg - 3d rendering, r300_dri.so
OpenGL libraries - libGL.so

I've got 3D acceleration enabled using:

uninorth-agp with kernel 2.6.13-rc3
kernel DRM from vanilla-sources-2.6.13-rc3 (drm.ko & radeon.ko)
Radeon driver from Xorg 6.8.99.14 (radeon_drv)
DRI driver from these drivers (r300_dri)
libGL from Mesa CVS

Currently:

the kernel loads and initializes AGP transfers and DRM
Xorg loads and initializes DRI
glxinfo reports that direct rendering is enabled.

However:

font display is corrupted
glxgears doesn't render

The first problem, I suspect, is caused by using kernel 2.6.13-rc3 with the kernel DRM drivers rather than a 2.6.9 kernel with the DRM drivers provided by r300.sf.net (as the r300 README recommends).

The second problem is probably caused by my having (stupidly) built Mesa libGL against the r300 DRM drivers rather than the 2.6.13-rc3 DRM drivers that I'm using.

There have been a couple of reports on dri-devel (from as far back as January) of the drivers working on Radeon 9600 M10 on PPC.
The current drivers are reportedly able to run Quake 3 without visible glitches on x86...

So next, I'll try rebuilding libGL against 2.6.13 DRM and see if that fixes glxgears rendering.
Then a 2.6.9 kernel (as recommended in the R300 drivers) and see if I actually get something more usable.

- gnomeza

scoobydu · Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 11:47 pm Post subject:

@gnomeza

Let us know how you get on

I'm just installing gentoo on a new powerbook 15" and was wondering how these drivers were progressing!

scooby
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xavier10 · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 4:59 pm Post subject:

Is there something new about the DRI ? (would it fall soon in the main version of Xorg or just stay in the CVS forever ?)

Moreover, I am interested in Wireless. Last time I checked, there was no driver for the wifi interface. Is there something new here ?

JoseJX · Retired Dev Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 2774

The r300 project is now included in X.org, use the modular ebuilds to try it:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml

As for the wireless, I think you missed the sticky at the top of the forum:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-409194.html

Good luck!
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xavier10 · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 5:39 pm Post subject:

scoobydu · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 9:31 pm Post subject:

xorg 6.9 overlay with a little cvs work for mesa and x11-drm from portage will also give you the same result as xorg modular, without the bugs (side effects) that go with it

xavier10 · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 7:14 pm Post subject:

SeJo · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 10:44 am Post subject:

I installed xorg7 modular X and r300 works good here...
can finally race nicely with ppracer...

glxinfo attached and glxgears also:

xavier10 · Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:24 pm Post subject:

theefer · n00b Joined: 12 Jul 2003 Posts: 32

I updated the HOWTO to reflect the current status of GNU/Linux on the 1GHz 15' Powerbook (i.e. suspend-to-ram and Airport Extreme now work!).
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scoobydu · Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 12:32 pm Post subject:

theefer · n00b Joined: 12 Jul 2003 Posts: 32

what, does it? O_o

Since when (kernel version, special patch/package/driver radeon? r300?) ?

So I should be able to use the DVI and VGA output? As dual-screen and/or mirrored screen?

If you can just give me some more information, I could try it and update the top post, that'd be great!

Thanks for the info!
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xavier10 · Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:56 pm Post subject:

scoobydu · Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 5:55 pm Post subject:

Redzky · n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2012 Posts: 6

A lot of this how to is outdated...
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