SUSE Linux 10.0 Beta 3 on PPC
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o'wolf
18 years, 8 months ago
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Usually, I don't post job related stuff here, but to be honest: running Linux on my Apple Titanium PowerBook (in short: TiBook) is just too cool :-)
Yesterday I gave it a try, I installed SUSE Linux 10.3 Beta 3 on the TiBook. Granted, it still has some minor issues, but those are just minor annoyances.
On the positive side (coming from SLES9 on ppc):
- Suspend to RAM and Suspend to disk work. The latter unfortunately not via pbbuttonsd (#113633), but an echo disk >/sys/power/state does what you'd expect from it. Now, if only OpenFirmware would start faster...
- As I just mentioned pbuttonsd: yes, the special keys to adjust volume and display brightness, the eject key and the power button do work as well. I haven't tried switching video output, but I'm afraid that won't work with the current Radeon driver anyway.
- OpenOffice.org 1.9 (2.0 pre-release). It even seems to work.
- A working keymap on the text console. Well, PC-style, but at least it has a pipe symbol.
- While the KDE desktop probably isn't as cool as the MacOS Tiger desktop, the whole system has a much more, well, fluent feeling to it. And chances are that it does not only feel but that it actually is faster than MacOS. ;-)
- Most stuff simply works without any manual intervention.
Issues encountered, most of them just of minor importance:
- pbbuttonsd switches the meaning of the function key: you need to press fn to get to the special keys instead of F1..F12, which is the other way around I'm used to from MacOS. Well, it can be changed easily in /etc/pbbuttonsd.conf if you don't like it.
- How do I get to a context menu in KDE with a one-button mouse?
- Sound does not start up on boot automatically (will be fixed in Beta 4)
- Sound presets are weird. It took me quite some time to figure that I either have to mute the DRC functionality or pull up DRC Range to get some noticable volume. Whatever DRC is supposed to mean. (#113630)
- KDE complains about powersaved not running, even though it is. Maybe because pbbuttonsd is using it already? (#113632)
- The ide_cd driver does not get loaded automatically, rendering the DVD writer unaccessible until I load the driver manually. Huh? (#113628)
- The airport WLAN card driver still lacks the hooks needed for wpa_supplicant. (#113631)
- The airport driver does not get found automatically by YaST (will be fixed in Beta 4.)
- Had to rename ifcfg-wlan0 to ifcfg-wlan-id-$MAC for the WLAN interface to get started on boot.
- YaST cannot partition a disk with a Mac disklabel; it does not know about yaboot, either. Luckily, The Olafs have provided instructions on how to do it manually.
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