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Hello, i'm Alex. |
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I decided to take the plunge and install Gentoo PPC on my old G4, |
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replacing a thoroughly bloated ubuntu. |
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I chose a manual install, and kernel build, and everything seemed to |
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go ok, until it came to sound. |
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As those who are much smarter than i am in linux PPC matters will |
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know, the challenge comes when trying to build sound, in this case the |
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powermac driver. As there is no identifiable pci bus, the kernel build |
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seems to ignore any alternative, and just keep looking for pci |
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devices. |
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I've added aliases, tried built in and module, and tweaked until i'm |
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blue in the face, but no luck. |
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I'm open to any help, advice, suggestions, or even a dose of good |
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humour at this point. |
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The intention is to build Gentoo with fluxbox, and use the laptop as |
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an admin computer, so i can keep my AMD64 studio box (I'm a composer) |
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in it's current pristine Gentoo 64bit state. (and no problems with |
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this one. I'm overjoyed with the result. The best computer OS for |
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writing and recording music i've ever owned or used.) |
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Any help would be much appreciated, as i've tasted the Gentoo cognac, |
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and don't really want to devolve into domestic distro land any more. |
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Alex. |
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