Subject: Re: Wall Street PowerBook support?
From: Keith Bowman (keithbowman@mail.maclaunch.com)
Date: Fri Jul 20 2001 - 12:42:52 MDT
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:03:51 -0500
Ben Stallings <Ben@WorksCited.Net> wrote:
> Hello -- I'm new to the list, so if this question has
> already been answered
> often, please let me know and I'll try to find it in the
> archives.
>
> I have a "Wall Street" PowerBook G3 Series (pre-USB), and
> I'm pondering
> whether it makes sense to install Yellow Dog. I have the
> following
> questions:
>
> * Will an install fit on my 2 GB hard disk and 98 MB of
> RAM? What extent
> of upgrades would be in order?
I have the 233MHZ G3 Powerbook with 512K backside cache. I
replaced my 2GB HD with a 10GB drive from powerbook1.com
prior to installing Linux, divided my HD into 2 HFS
Partitions, and a Root and Swap partion for linux. The
first disto I tried was YDL 1.2.1, worked OK, but never got
printing to work via the serial port to my Epson 740. I
have not tried YDL 2.0, and have no plans to, as I have
Linux PPC2000 Q4 going now, and have it printing and pretty
much doing everything I need it to do. My only complaint is
that something went wrong in the installation of KDE and KDE
will not start at all. So I just use Gnome which is fine
with me (I can still run KDE apps though).
>
> * Will it support the features of my hardware, including
> audio in and out,
> multiple screen resolutions (including video out), and a
> SuperDisk drive?
I never have gotten accelerated video with YDL or LinuxPPC.
Do run 1024X768 just fine though. Never have gotten a video
player to work very well though. Although, RealPlayer does
a good job with realplayer content. Had to add an alias to
one of the .rc scripts to load dmasound module to get sound
going and it's been going fine.
>
> * I see from screen shots that Yellow Dog apparently
> allows you to run Mac
> OS in a window. Is that feasible on this machine?
>
> Many thanks in advance for your advice. --Ben
>
>
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