From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 11 14:40:43 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA6D61065673 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:40:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from justin.hibbits@alumni.cwru.edu) Received: from mpv4.tis.cwru.edu (mpv4.tis.CWRU.Edu [129.22.105.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 897818FC15 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:40:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from justin.hibbits@alumni.cwru.edu) Received: from mpv8.TIS.CWRU.edu (mpv8.tis.CWRU.Edu [129.22.105.116]) by mpv4.tis.cwru.edu (MOS 3.10.5-GA) with ESMTP id CTR21456 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:40:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from beta.eecs.cwru.edu (beta.eecs.CWRU.Edu [129.22.150.110]) by mpv8.TIS.CWRU.edu (MOS 4.1.5-GA) with ESMTP id EDE49589 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:40:33 -0400 Received: from narn.knownspace ([::ffff:69.250.50.210]) (AUTH: LOGIN jrh29, SSL: TLSv1/SSLv3,168bits,DES-CBC3-SHA) by beta.eecs.cwru.edu with esmtp; Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:40:40 -0400 id 00008EA3.49E0ABE9.000072AD Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:41:09 -0400 From: Justin Hibbits To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090411104109.3aa7c6c0@narn.knownspace> In-Reply-To: <731E33BB-997D-4AC5-B64A-8A6C21CED7A2@fahrners.de> References: <6F7FDA78-ED86-4319-B25D-DA532FBB5716@fahrners.de> <8e0ed1e00904100128u6b548ec6w811db700c75f8480@mail.gmail.com> <8e0ed1e00904100827k625f14c0j1da8522d0439641@mail.gmail.com> <8e0ed1e00904100941n83a868j6b943378bd1e62d7@mail.gmail.com> <6E85EC82-0219-4BF4-9FC5-C794F2D23293@fahrners.de> <54D0A270-642B-41CF-AD7E-7BBE1E537772@fahrners.de> <20090411083110.1f49eb28@narn.knownspace> <731E33BB-997D-4AC5-B64A-8A6C21CED7A2@fahrners.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1 (GTK+ 2.14.7; powerpc-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/49, host=mpv4.tis.cwru.edu X-Junkmail-SD-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A010205.49E0ABEA.0151,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=129.22.105.116, so=2009-03-06 19:59:02, dmn=5.4.3/2007-10-18, mode=single engine X-Junkmail-IWF: false Subject: Re: FreeBSD on iMac G3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:40:44 -0000 On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:58:57 +0200 Jochen Fahrner wrote: > Hi Justin, > > > > > That's a well-known issue, and the fix is on the project web > > page. Add: > > > > hw.ofwfb.relax_mmap=1 > > > > to your /etc/sysctl.conf. > > Are you sure that helps? On the procject web page is documented that > this is for ATI Radeon based systems. Mine is a ATI Rage. Given the error message, it's worth a try at least. The sysctl is for ignoring the mmap checks, and is most needed by the Radeon driver, but given the error message, it would probably work for the Rage as well. > In the meanwhile I have cleared the disc and I'm installing Gentoo > Linux. This seems to have great Mac support. Even booting should be > easy with yaboot. If I'm not satisfied with Gentoo I can return and > try this sysctl setting. > > Are there more well-known issues a newbie has to consider? > > Jochen Your best bet is to just read through the mailing list. A lot of work has been done in the last 6 months that hasn't been updated on the wiki, but most issues are documented in the mailing list archives somewhere. - Justin