Gentoo on Gamecube

Paladine01 · Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 7:02 pm Post subject: Gentoo on Gamecube

I have it running ;-)

I'm going from Stage1->Stage2 right now. I'm pretty slow since / is networked, but it seems to be working. Using the standard ppc build. I'll let you when the complete system is up.

jjasghar · Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 7:58 pm Post subject:

thats bad ass, congrats
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bennettp · Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 2:54 pm Post subject:

nice work!

any chance of posting a quick howto?
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Paladine01 · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 2:48 pm Post subject:

Actually I put the work on hold when moving from Stage2->Stage3.

The problem is I've been running out of memory. The cube has 24 megs of RAM and after the kernel is loaded only about 21 is usable. You have 16 megs of ARAM of which 2 is used for the sound driver and the other 14 is used for swap. To compile C++ apps you need some major memory. So I setup an NBD and used that for some additional swap. The problem right now is that the network card only runs at 10 Mbps which is causing some major lag. All the files are on the network AND your swap is on the network. So the system is constantly firing packets back and forth at a very slow rate. I am doing some kernel work and when I get the interface up and running at 100 Mbps I will continue the installation!

someguy · Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 8:52 am Post subject:

how did you do this did you do it using psoload or what ?
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Paladine01 · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 3:03 pm Post subject: OK It's installed

OK I installed it successfully now.

I used a Stage3 installation this time instead of going from 1->3. I emerging everything and I'm up to date. GCC failed so I'm still stuck at 3.2.3 instead of 3.3.3 but I think I might try another version to see if it works.

And yes I used psoload to get it to work. I used the debian base image as my default, and then installed gentoo in the /mnt directory that I chroot'd to. I extracted the stage3 PPC installation there.

zecora · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 7:41 pm Post subject:

can i ask why you installed gentoo on the gamecube, keep in mind i am new at this so go easy on me for asking a stupid question.

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ddew · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 10

A perfectly acceptable answer would be: "Because I could"

I've done that kind of installs like a million times, everything from old sparcs to old powermacs. It's not really useful or everything but it's possible. Therefor it had to be done. :twisted:

Paladine01 · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 7:57 pm Post subject:

It's kinda neat to be the only person in the world to have it up and running?

Rotonen · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 8:04 pm Post subject:

The only logical next step is to have a NES emulator running on it..

jjasghar · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 9:32 pm Post subject:

Paladine01 · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 2:48 am Post subject:

Most definitely.

This weekend I will get a custom SDL and Snes9X that works well with the Cube. I need to find an NES emulator that works with the framebuffer though.

Paladine01 · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 3:04 pm Post subject:

OK I managed to get gcc-3.3.4 installed after I updated binutils and gcc-config. Now I'm building an updated glibc. Then I'll have a up to date system!

Rotonen · Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 6:13 pm Post subject:

Perhaps you could do a website about your project with some photos and guidelines for others to achieve the same as you?

Too bad I don't own a GC, I'd install Gentoo on it too to run Nintendo emulators.. :twisted:

Cool Matty · n00b Joined: 28 Aug 2004 Posts: 5

Doesn't the cube run on a version of ATI's radeon chipset? In other words, you should be able to hack a radeon driver into it, and use OpenGL instead of framebuffer. Lots of emulators support OpenGL instead of others, including Snes9X.

chINeSe mIDgEts · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 7:34 am Post subject:

umm is there like a specialy way that one would go about doing this, like <peers over at my gamecube>could you please go through what you did to setup the installation process ( i can obviously install it myself :wink:

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Paladine01 · Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 5:51 pm Post subject:

The cube DOES NOT have a Radeon compatible video card. The chip is custom by ArtX (which got bought out by ATi AFTER the chip was finalized). I have the documentation and I am thinking about writing an OpenGL implementation for it. I am working on hacking fceultra to work with the 3D instead of the 2D framebuffer. Once the 3D stuff is working I am going to get Snes9X running on it using the 3D hardware.

agnitio · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 136

I would also like a brief description on how you got it working. I'm using the kernel att www.gc-linux.org and I got their Debian NFS-root working. But I'm totally unfamilliar with debian so I would like to use gentoo instead. It seems that some tweaking is necessary to get the init-scripts running.

Paladine01 · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 11:29 pm Post subject:

agnitio: Congrats on becoming the second person to having a working Gentoo system on their cube. BTW I also go by the handle Scream|CT.....

;-)

agnitio · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 136

Ah, hehe. I had a feeling that it could be you, but then again, you never know.

Thanks for the help!
It's nice to be able to play videos on the TV now, unfortunately NFS is a little slow over a wireless lan so they're a bit choppy. But it works! Also, I learned a great deal during the process.

nerval · n00b Joined: 01 Jan 2005 Posts: 43 Location: Los Angeles

Congrats to all who could do it.

http://www.gc-linux.org/pic/linuxpreview1.jpg => This is amazing

lappy512 · n00b Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 1

yeah, you must have worked hard... congrats is all i can say

Kumba · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 9:18 pm Post subject:

Paladine01 · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 6:12 pm Post subject: