hello. is fran from spain again.
thanks for your help. just a final question.
the last mandrake box for ppc supports dvd, sound and good video on a
titanium, i mean, if buy on the store the last version of mandrake ppc
(Mandrake Linux 8.0 PPC) i can have multimedia working on my titanium?
thanks
Fran
>From: Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: ["francisco perez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] HI
>Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 11:05:27 -0700
>
>On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 05:27:04PM +0200, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
> > i am new in the list, my name is Francisco Daniel Perez Garzon, i live
>in
> > Spain. nice to meet you.
> > i love the idea of use linux in a mac, specially in a titanium, so i
>just
> > subscribe to this mailing list, but my experience in other mailing list
> > tells me that i got to read a lot before ask, i just wanna know where is
>the
> > documentation about mandrake-ppc to read before use the list and
>specially
> > where is the support documentataion for titanium, for example, can i see
>a
> > dvd in a titanium runing linux??.
>
>There isn't a lot of specific documentation on the Titanium and
>Mandrake.
>
>These two searches through the archives of the mailing list might be
>helpful:
>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&w=2&r=1&s=titanium&q=b
>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&w=2&r=1&s=powerbook&q=b
>
>There are a few other sites giving information on this and most of them
>are relating to either Linux/PPC or Yellow Dog. Many of the problems
>they help work around have been resolved in Mandrake.
>
>Specifically, the only major problem you are likely to run into with a
>Titanium is getting the display to work at 1152x768. I provided the
>proper XF86Config file to the list previously and you will find it in
>the above searches.
>
>As far as DVD. Unfortunately DVD support on Linux as a whole is
>lacking. Without a legal version of the decryption version Mandrake
>can't ship a DVD player that would functionally play most DVD movies
>that are sold in a store. In the past I have attempted to make DVD
>work on X86 without much luck. I've never attempted on my Titanium.
>Though I would imagine any instructions that explained how to do it
>on Mandrake would be applicable to PPC so long as you recompiled
>everything that was X86.
>
>HTH
>
>--
>Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>http://ben.reser.org
>
>Wizard's First Rule - People are stupid, they will believe anything
>if they want it to be true or they fear it is true - Terry Goodkind
>
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