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Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 18:03 +0100, Edgar Hucek wrote: |
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>> For your intresst. Last week i bought a new toy. |
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>> One of those shiny new Intel iMac's. I search the |
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>> net if someone is trying to get linux on it. I saw |
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> You apparently missed our own bugzilla[1][2]. |
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Mea cuplpa. For the moment it should only be an info mail ;) |
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>> only most people only wanna tu run windows on it *gah*. |
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>> So i started a little research. At the moment i have |
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>> Gentoo Linux running on it on an external USB hdd. |
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>> Wouldn't it be a nice storry for the Gentoo newssite ? |
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> Sure it would. Even better would be that 2006.0 has support for booting |
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> on these new machines because we cooperated to get the necessary support |
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> into catalyst. |
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There are too many open questions yet. Don't get in a hurry. Linux |
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booted the first time 2 days ago. So we have no prove how stable it is. |
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Also to get it booted is somewhat complicate at the moment. |
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http://nak.journalspace.com/?cmd=displaycomments&dcid=407&entryid=407 |
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The kernel have some more os less troubles. The video out i did is more |
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than a hack. Not realy usable for public use yet. Lets wait and develop |
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on this baby to get it stable and evrything working. |
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>> Look here for a first snapshoot and some infos. |
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>> http://xbox-linux.org/mactel/index.php/Main_Page |
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>> I plan to releas patches and an howtoo soon. |
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> Please contact me immediately, as there is a very limited window of |
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> opportunity for us to be able to make the necessary changes to get this |
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> in before the 2006.0 release. |
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As i sayed no hurry at the moment. Call the development at this time |
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alpha ;) Lets plan it for the next release. |
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>> Things need some polish. |
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>> At the Moment only some things are tested. For |
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>> the video i use a patched vesafb driver. The kernel |
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>> 2.6.16-rc3 seems to have some acpi problems on it. |
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gimli |
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