{"id":198,"date":"2004-08-14T08:30:14","date_gmt":"2004-08-14T13:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=198"},"modified":"2004-08-14T08:30:14","modified_gmt":"2004-08-14T13:30:14","slug":"rawhide-status-for-ppc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/08\/14\/rawhide-status-for-ppc","title":{"rendered":"Rawhide status for PPC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I lied. Fedora News Updates still being written, so much for the attempted 2-week releases. Wanna help? Anyways, here&#8217;s what Fedora PPC as of Rawhide on 13\/08\/2004 looks like (6302MB of installed packages now):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anaconda needs to be rebuilt, because of the new glibc (probably fixed in 14th&#8217;s tree, <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.redhat.com\/bugzilla\/show_bug.cgi?id=129747\">#129747<\/a>). <\/li>\n<li>The vesa driver is used, so you can actually get anaconda to start up nicely with X, rather than using text-based installs.<\/li>\n<li>Apple Bootstrap still doesn&#8217;t show. Creating it isn&#8217;t a problem, but it isn&#8217;t graphical. This was supposed to be fixed, but now, I&#8217;ll get a screenshot soon and see what can be done about it.<\/li>\n<li>Getting screenshots are a chore &#8211; Shift+PrintScreen will not work on the iBook. It lacks a PrintScreen key!<\/li>\n<li>No mkofboot magic at the end. \/etc\/yaboot.conf exists, but without the mkofboot magic, it can&#8217;t boot Fedora. Once started, notice no rhgb present.<\/li>\n<li>If everything install is performed, Starting the IIIMF input server will result in it just hanging there. <\/li>\n<li>firstboot starts, with fbdev, maximum resolution is only 800&#215;600.<\/li>\n<li>X does not get configured on the iBook G4 yet. ddcprobe however, is fixed and works a charm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Everything else just works, as expected. Looks like its just a few minor niggles here and there, before we get something that works really well (soon).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I lied. Fedora News Updates still being written, so much for the attempted 2-week releases. Wanna help? Anyways, here&#8217;s what Fedora PPC as of Rawhide on 13\/08\/2004 looks like (6302MB of installed packages now): Anaconda needs to be rebuilt, because of the new glibc (probably fixed in 14th&#8217;s tree, #129747). The vesa driver is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-3c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}