Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 11:52:29 -0400 From: Black Fox <blackfox@teamblackfox.com> To: aggaz <aggaz@paranoici.org> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on eMac G4 1.25 GHz Message-ID: <5527F1BD.9010409@teamblackfox.com> In-Reply-To: <5527EFCB.1000503@paranoici.org> References: <5527EFCB.1000503@paranoici.org>
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Hello Francesco,
We appreciate the information. Indeed, FreeBSD POWER/PowerPC is hit and
miss with a lot of stuff.
If you're looking for a neat OS to run on the eMac, you can try MorphOS.
Its commercial, and not UNIX-like, but its actively developed for 32-bit
PowerPC systems.
Best,
Black Fox
On 4/10/2015 11:44 AM, aggaz wrote:
> Dear people of the FreeBSD-PPC world,
>
> in the last few days I played with FreeBSD 10.1 RELEASE PPC and an eMac
> G4 1.25 GHz (PPC).
>
> I was able to install the base system without problems (and I add kudos
> to you because other *BSD were almost impossible to play with (yes, it's
> my fist tyme with *BSD)). Only problem (at first) was a SegFault while
> compiling Xorg (the problem was actually Mesa related), but a very
> friendly user of the #freebsd-xorg IRC channel on EFNet (called
> dumbbell) solved the issue. He told me to add these lines to
> /usr/ports/graphics/dri/Makefile just before the line saying ". if
> (${OSVERSION} >= 901500 && ${OSVERSION} < 1000000)":
>
> USE_GCC= yes
> USE_BINUTILS= yes
> LDFLAGS+= -B${LOCALBASE}/bin
>
>
> Thanks to him I compiled xorg-minimal.
>
> However, I was not allowed to use xf86-video-ati because it says that
> the port is not PPC compatible, I installed xf86-video-ati-ums instead
> (as suggested by another helpful user, called Avengence).
>
> Given that I was not able to compile any browser, I gave up, and
> switched back to Debian. I am sad, I liked the idea to start using
> FreeBSD, but I understand, nobody cares about PPC anymore, even Debian
> Jessie is too much buggy.
>
> I just wanted to tell you that it could be useful to modify the file
> above to help other users.
>
> Best regards
> Francesco
>
> P.S: I am not subscribed to the mailing list, if someone will reply, i
> would appreciate to be inserted in the "cc".
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