Okay, here's my beta report from memory. There may be a few more, I'll check when I get home.
Let me preface this by saying that this is easily the best Linux I've tried for PowerPC. I hope these, and the other issues I've seen can be resolved, because the speed puts OS X to shame, and I'll gladly pay the $100 or whatever the suggested donation is. A LOT of stuff seems to work. It picked up my modem, network card, and Airport card, a USB wheel mouse, and even the sound works! My system: Apple iBook2 (dual USB, 500mhz, 640 MB RAM, Airport, 56k modem, ethernet), Mandrake 8.2 PPC Beta Bugs/Suggestions: 1. The installer picked up both my ethernet and Airport card, and offered to configure both. Great! I chose DHCP for both of them. But when I reboot, neither eth0 or eth1 gets an IP address from my Airport base station. Gotta get this fixed, because with no network connection, can't get updated RPMs. (Windows and OS X clients get IPs from the base station, no problem). 2. As reported by someone else this morning, I also have the "palette problem" on the GUI login box. It's pretty bad - only by having previously used it on another system would you know where to type and click -new users would be out of luck... Note that I believe my system has the same video card (ATI Rage128) as the previous poster who also has the same problem. 3. On x86, the installers seem to recognize that it's a laptop and give you a battery monitor. 8.2 beta did not. I went into the KDE control center's battery section (Where you choose to have an icon displayed), and it indicated that I did not have APM, and would have to compile it. That's beyond me at this point. It would be nice if this "just worked". 4. Can't get into Gnome, it just dumps you back to the login screen. Probably related to the missing packages from the CD #2 rejection problem? 5. Unfortunately, there is a major showstopper: on the second reboot after the install, there was a line about "looking for internet connections to start at boot". It just hangs there, forever. :( Something I did "wrong"? Let me know if you need me to do any testing on these issues, I'll be happy to help if it can improve the final product. Justin --- Stew Benedict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Go ahead and post what you find, it may have already > been addressed, but > you may hit something new that no-one else has seen > yet. > > Stew Benedict > > -- > MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA > http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ > PPC FAQ: > http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/ > Cooker-PPC IRC: irc.openprojects.net/#cooker-ppc __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/
