Spring cleaning
It’s been a while since I properly dabbled in Fedora/PPC, so today I decided to change that. ginny is the iBook G4/1.33GHz that I purchased last year, and didn’t get to make much use of it the moment the Powerbook came along. Well, today I grabbed the FC-5 DVD and decided to give it an install.
Since I last fiddled with things, I no longer have hermione so there goes my last Airport device. I am now expecting Airport Extreme to actually work.
First things first, my trackpad didn’t just automatically work in the installer - I ended up plugging in a USB mouse. I then proceeded to remove all Linux partitions (I had 4.92 still installed), and the bootstrap partition got created.
The mouse worked once the installation was complete. The one thing that didn’t work was sound. And of course, the wireless networking.
To add to the spring cleaning goodness of the day, the quad-G5 got a new 250GB SATA disk (a Seagate for $117). It also got a BENQ FP71G+ 17″ LCD monitor, my first; I’m liking it, so I think this is time for a “goodbye CRT”. And it seems I got another one.
albus my main desktop that ran Fedora Core 2 for the longest time needed an update. Today, it got a “new” 80GB disk and is now all modern. I however do seem to be noticing some screen corruption with Xorg, that I didn’t notice with FC-2 (green or other colored dots on the screen via the Radeon 7000 thats inside). The only real difference is the driver has changed from “radeon” to “ati”. Screen corruption seemed to be fixed by not using the KVM and cleaning the dust from the video card (though I might place it back on the KVM soon).
I finally got a 240V power adapter, that pumps 5V DC and gives me 2A from Jaycar, so my NSLU2 works now. Remember not to plug in what you get from the USA, because then it just goes “poof”. Its not a regular power supply, in where it does switching voltage, which you’ll really only notice post-”poof”-ing. I do feel rather silly buying this in the States, as its almost as cheap here in Australia.
I tried to test Ubuntu PowerPC. On the G5, I encountered it just hanging (ubuntu#56342) and on the iMac DV SE, X wouldn’t work either. I’ve tried video=ofonly, to no avail. Thats okay, because Fedora Core 5 has been placed on the G5 just as well. Fan control seems to be broken. I eventually got Dapper (6.06.1) on the iMac, thanks to the power of blogs (really, Google).
August 21st, 2006 at 11:52 pm
pictures pictures!