On Apr 15, 2021, at 4:57 PM, Alex McKeever <alex.mckeever@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

It’s been a long time since I last heard anything on this. I’d like to run Linux on my G3 iMac in some form (after some experimentation with the few leopard betas that can be hacked to run on here), and Ubuntu 16.04 is not a good option today. I

tried Adelie and Void-ppc, but those are more involved than what Debian provides in terms of installation.
(…)

So what is your question?

Are you wondering whether your particular hardware works? If yes, I don’t know, you have to give it a try yourself and reporting back.

Adrian

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It’s been a long time since I last heard anything on this. I’d like to run Linux on my G3 iMac in some form (after some experimentation with the few leopard betas that can be hacked to run on here), and Ubuntu 16.04 is not a good option today. I
tried Adelie and Void-ppc, but those are more involved than what Debian provides in terms of installation.

The last version/distribution the system ran smoothly that I last tried was Ubuntu 6.06 or 6.10, which are extremely old. In addition to this, I was limited to installing via alternate CD, due to the broken live environment.

Sent from my iPad

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On Apr 15, 2021, at 5:53 PM, Alex McKeever <alex.mckeever@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

As in, are the drivers actually working now?

I don’t know. I know the drivers are back in Debian as Adrian Bunk is now maintaining them but I don’t know whether this particular bug has been fixed.

Just try it yourself and report back.

Adrian

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Hi,

On 4/15/21 5:53 PM, Alex McKeever wrote:

As in, are the drivers actually working now? The last time we discussed this, someone built it and it didn’t seem to work. This effects all Linux distributions, including Adelie, which is a new distribution that uses an APK package format (not

Android though).


Ii you tweak your Xorg by disabling a lot of stuff, it should work. I
have ATI 64 working on my iBook G3... admitted, about 1 year ago it was
working much better... I don't know if Adrian did some work lately
though. I need to check if I have some x86 hardware with a Rage 128.
Playing with 16bit 24bit, shadowFB and hardware mouse helps usually
getting something decent out of these older cards.

A similar fate is suffering the S3 Virge, not used in any Mac, but used
in prominent x86 laptops and I think also some Amiga PPC cards... wonder
if Adrian works on them too?


Riccardo

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On 4/18/21 2:16 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:> Hi,

On 4/15/21 5:53 PM, Alex McKeever wrote:

As in, are the drivers actually working now? The last time we discussed
this, someone built it and it didn’t seem to work. This effects all Linux >> distributions, including Adelie, which is a new distribution that uses an
APK package format (not Android though).

Well, I cannot just fix all the issues alone, there should be some other people helping me out. If Adelie has a PowerPC port, I would expect them to fix bugs as well and forward their patches upstream so that the issue gets fixed on all distributions.

Ii you tweak your Xorg by disabling a lot of stuff, it should work. I have ATI
64 working on my iBook G3... admitted, about 1 year ago it was working much better... I don't know if Adrian did some work lately though.

There was no mach64 driver anymore in Debian one year ago. However, recently, Adrian Bunk adopted the driver and among others and it's now available for installation again.

I need to check if I have some x86 hardware with a Rage 128. Playing with 16bit
24bit, shadowFB and hardware mouse helps usually getting something decent out of
these older cards.

You should test on PowerPC and report bugs upstream if you find any if you want issue to get fixed.

A similar fate is suffering the S3 Virge, not used in any Mac, but used in prominent
x86 laptops and I think also some Amiga PPC cards... wonder if Adrian works on them
too?

Amiga PowerPC is a completely different platform and support for it is currently not
even in the kernel.

Adrian

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