Rawhide status for PPC
OK, I lied. Fedora News Updates still being written, so much for the attempted 2-week releases. Wanna help? Anyways, here’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’s tree, #129747).
- The vesa driver is used, so you can actually get anaconda to start up nicely with X, rather than using text-based installs.
- Apple Bootstrap still doesn’t show. Creating it isn’t a problem, but it isn’t graphical. This was supposed to be fixed, but now, I’ll get a screenshot soon and see what can be done about it.
- Getting screenshots are a chore – Shift+PrintScreen will not work on the iBook. It lacks a PrintScreen key!
- No mkofboot magic at the end. /etc/yaboot.conf exists, but without the mkofboot magic, it can’t boot Fedora. Once started, notice no rhgb present.
- If everything install is performed, Starting the IIIMF input server will result in it just hanging there.
- firstboot starts, with fbdev, maximum resolution is only 800×600.
- X does not get configured on the iBook G4 yet. ddcprobe however, is fixed and works a charm.
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).
