Thanks, Stephen, for the help. Actually, I just gave up running linux on my iBook (I reformatted the disk, deleting the linux partitions). I have spent quite a bit of time with three different linuxes: YDL 6.1, Yubuntu 8.10 and Yubuntu 7.10. Except for some easily solved problems, each one installed with few problems. After installation, I found that the user experience with the OS was far worse than with OS X and I repeatedly asked myself "why am I doing this?"
Everything worked at best barely acceptably and nothing was as smooth, fast and clean as in OS X. I have a fair bit of experience with Linux over the last 15 years (on various PPC macs, starting with MkLinux on a Powermac 8100). Part of the problem is that OS X has gotten to be very good lately and even the latest version (10.5) seems to do a good job of supporting the PPC, unlike linux. The ppc GPU drivers are a hit and miss hack - a good job of reverse engineering but not nearly as good as supported drivers. I found that window moving on iBook linux was pretty smooth but scrolling was glacial - reminds me of my old 68040 Mac. There are a lot of things that ppc linux simply will not do. For example, there is no Flash and the alternative (gnash) is awful in my experience. I never succeeded in getting DVD disks to play on the iBook - there is some codec that doesn't seem to have a ppc version. The two main window managers are beyond ugly in my opinion and I never took to Enlightenment. My favorite window manager is Window Maker and it has trouble - for some strange reason, it defeats 2D acceleration on theiBook (but not on my PS3). The list of annoyances is endless and I am delighted to be back in OS X. I still have Linux on my PS3 and with the 2D RSX hack, it is fairly pleasant to use. Cheers, Warren Nagourney On Jan 16, 2009, at 9:54 PM, Stephen Harker wrote: > Hi, > >> I just installed YDL 6.1 on an ibook g4 800 Mhz and the 2D graphics >> are definitely not accelerated. Does anyone know how to enable >> graphics acceleration on this machine? (I did a default >> installation). > > I have accelerated X11 with my iBook G4 (late 2005) and ydl6.1. In > fact there was a great improvement with ydl6.1 over ydl6 as my > accelerated graphics had glxgears going from around 400fps to around > 1200fps (the chip in these later iBook G4's was only partly supported > with the earlier Xorg). I will attach my manualy edited xorg.conf and > /etc/X11/fs/config that is at least partly relied upon. Check and > compare with yours. > > -- > Stephen Harker [email protected] > PEMS > u...@adfa<xorg.conf><config>__________________________________________ > _____ > yellowdog-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> > site:terrasoftsolutions.com' _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
