Some tidbits from my efforts to get Linux onto my new PowerBook G4 867MHz: o Kernel 2.4.20-benh-2mdk works fine. Not more or less sleep or X issues than before: colors on the X console are wrong after waking up, right again after switching to a text console and back. X only works in 16bit frambuffer mode, but that's probably XF86's fault.
o Sound works after I "modprobe dmasound_pmac". Why is this not done on startup? o Sometimes (but as far as I remember not always), gnome-panel segfaults when logging out of gnome. o I've found this page from someone who uses yellowdog on such a powerbook: http://www.staikos.on.ca/~staikos/tibook/ o Recently, something went wrong with my linux install (I did so many experiments that I've no idea what it was): Files have vanished. perl is gone, xinetd is gone, bzip2 is gone, wget is gone, which is gone, and probably some more that I didn't discover yet. Trying to urpmi them again just says "everything already installed". So my system is now in a pretty unusable state (which is no catastrophe because it's a purely experimental system anyway), and I'm in for a reinstall. However, I'd like to wait until an installer with a benh kernel is out, so that I can try out the graphical install, is that going to happen anytime soon? Or can I easily build such an installer myself? -Christian
