Gentoo on PS3

tokka · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 Sep 2004 Posts: 99

Hi

A quick update on the status of Gentoo on the PS3 on Friday 5, January 2007

The past week has seen the release to the Gentoo mirrors of a PS3 boot CD, a LiveCD, and a stage4 tarball, so a lot of the information in this thread preceding this post is now out of date.

Installation
The simplest way to install Gentoo on your PS3 is to use a LiveCD and stage4 tarball, especially if you are new to Gentoo. See http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/cell/wiki/InstallGentooOnPS3 for a installation guide and information about obtaining the boot CD image and official stage 4 tarball. Currently this method limits you to a 32bit userland, but an official 64bit version in the works.

If you are an experienced Gentoo user, and want to make your own install from a stage 3, I have instructions at http://www.daniel.jp/joomla/info/ps3/installing-gentoo-on-the-ps3.html, but be aware this method should be considered unsupported now we have an official way:)

Cell Toolchain
Shortly the official GRP for Gentoo on PS3 will include the Cell toolchain, but until that time you can get info on building your own at http://www.daniel.jp/joomla/info/ps3/creating-ps3-toolchains-on-gentoo.html

inindo · n00b Joined: 07 Oct 2002 Posts: 5

acidraven · n00b Joined: 18 Nov 2006 Posts: 4

So now gentoo on the ps3 is on Slashdot. http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/01/10/1341257.shtml
It is to bad that the person who did this must not have read this thread or he would have learned about the work you have been doing, including the ps3 binary you have compiled, and how to use the distributed compile.

Keep up the good work, maybe some time soon I will try the install my self, I just have so many things going on at the moment.

MrFlesh · n00b Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 7

Is it possible to play PC games on the PS3?

valczir · n00b Joined: 23 Nov 2005 Posts: 35 Location: Minnesota

Tashi · n00b Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 18

if i have a 4801 TV amd i stuck at this hidious resolution? i set the kboot.conf to option one. if i can get my tv-out on my windows box to output a higher res there must be a way to do it on here right? the configure desktop box in kde doesnt even fit on the screen >.<

sub_zero · Apprentice Joined: 12 Sep 2004 Posts: 169

Thanks a lot for doing this. I just got mythtv working on my ps3 so I'm pretty happy. Now I just need to mess with mplayer a bit.

spindley · Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 4:44 pm Post subject:

I spent the weekend getting MythTV up and running on Gentoo on my ps3, and it works quite well. Streaming xvid movies from my Debian server is *slightly* choppy, but all in all quite good.
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rangerpb · Retired Dev Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 147

To those who have been using Myth on your PS3, I'm interested in which USE flags you passed. I am seriously considering providing mythtv as a binary package (GRP) and passing the frontendonly USE flag along with others. Please weigh in which you think make sense and I will add it to the repository.
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brewin · n00b Joined: 12 Nov 2006 Posts: 5

I've got my PS3 hooked up to a Sceptre X22wg-gamer with HDMI and text looks bad at 1080i (and every other resolution). Is there any way I could run X at the native 1680x1050 resolution? The mode isn't listed by ps3videomode -v. Does fbdev support this resolution?

Also, should I have MAKEOPTS="-j2" or MAKEOPTS="-j3" in make.conf? It seems like everyone is using "-j2", but isn't it dual-core? Or does it not make any difference?

anunakin · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 May 2004 Posts: 101

boachan · Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:57 pm Post subject:

I finished installing gentoo on my ps3, installed enlightenment, but my mouse doesnt work when i go into it.

any ideas thanks.

cyanide_nfs · n00b Joined: 16 Dec 2005 Posts: 22

Paste your xorg.conf

tokka · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 Sep 2004 Posts: 99

anunakin · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 May 2004 Posts: 101

boachan · Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:27 pm Post subject:

sub_zero · Apprentice Joined: 12 Sep 2004 Posts: 169

-j1 doesn't mean you have zero cpu's, the #cpus + 1 idea for the -j options is just a guideline. All -j does is tell how many jobs should run simultaneously, and as was previously posted, doing more at a time will use more ram.

As for my mythtv use flags, I just went with the basic. I built the backend too but I'll probably redo it later with just the frontend and with altivec(Despite building it with the backend support, the backend crashes very quickly without giving an error).

spindley · Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:56 am Post subject:

spindley · Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 5:03 am Post subject:

sub_zero · Apprentice Joined: 12 Sep 2004 Posts: 169

for mplayer I use

spindley · Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 5:04 pm Post subject:

spindley · Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:34 pm Post subject:

On another note, does anyone else notice that the load averages seem to be awfully high for an idling system? I'm seeing a constant 1.00 load average when the system is idle.

asong26 · n00b Joined: 18 Jan 2007 Posts: 47

Hi Guys,

My first post here. I am having some serious audio issues with Gentoo on PS3 running KDE. Here are my settings and symptoms: (copied from another post at a different forum, with no response, and resolution.)

After installing VLC or even MPlayer to install, the sound doesn't work properly. In order to make it work, you have to constantly change the audio output device, or driver in the preference meneu, kill the application, and restart. If you repeat this process for about 4 or 5 times, it then plays the sound correctly. Otherwise, the audio is all broken up in VLC, and in MPlayer, the audio doesn't play at all. On VLC, only OSS would work. And on MPlayer, only sdl would work. That's if I can get it to work...

Once you have this fixed, and if you reboot the OS, and try to launch a movie file, the same process repeats itself. Sound is completely broken.

I am using KDE, and in the control center OSS audio device works for me. And in KDE. I want to also note that ALSA does not work in KDE. Within the KDE Control Center, when I try to change the audio device to ALSA, it gives me an error regarding inability to find capture device.

OSS in VLC also represents a problem. It complains about no finding /dev/dsp. This directory doesn't exist. Obviously, this is a configuration issue. But, where and how do I fix this?

Is anyone else running into this issue?

Another thought. After doing some research, I've come to learn that OSS and ESD will conflict with ALSA. If this is the case, and if Sony is also officially supporting ALSA, and if ALSA provides OSS emulation, then why is OSS even there?

asong26 · n00b Joined: 18 Jan 2007 Posts: 47

No one knows?? Hmmm... Let me post a different question:

I wanted to see if the latest 64-bit PPC Stage 4 tarball would make any difference. So, I've installed it, and followed this thread like a bible in making sure that my configuration files were all set, including the rc-updates to set my ALSA as the default drive.

I am about to install KDE. The question that I have is what is the best USE flag to use when compiling KDE to minimize the audio and video? If I understand correctly, PS3 linux core uses openGL? Also, on the audio front, it's ALSA?

Can anyone share their package.use entry of KDE so that I'll know how to compile KDE on the PS3 without all of the unnecessary USE flags turned on? I want to run this lean and mean to minimize memory, and CPU overhaul. In the past, I've just downloaded a pre-built binary package, but it didn't work out very well for me on the Audio front. Both VLC and MPlayer had some serious issues of complete audio breakup....

If this is not a USE flag / compilation issue, then can someone point me to the right direction?

Thank you

jakep_82 · n00b Joined: 19 Oct 2005 Posts: 11

I can't answer your sound question specifically, but I will mention that KDE is probably not a good choice for the PS3. You've only got 256MB of RAM to work with and KDE is one of the heaviest desktops you can choose. You might want to use something lighter like Xfce. Part of your problem might be because you're thrashing your rather slow HD (5400RPM) with swap.

Also, OpenGL is not possible with the PS3. It's framebuffer only right now.