Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:41:09 -0400 From: Justin Hibbits <justin.hibbits@alumni.cwru.edu> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on iMac G3 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> <B92388C6-458F-446F-AC4F-B36BD16E28D1@fahrners.de> <8e0ed1e00904100827k625f14c0j1da8522d0439641@mail.gmail.com> <B9A4D6D4-0AEE-448E-882F-946A7CB997FC@fahrners.de> <8e0ed1e00904100941n83a868j6b943378bd1e62d7@mail.gmail.com> <6E85EC82-0219-4BF4-9FC5-C794F2D23293@fahrners.de> <alpine.OSX.2.00.0904101332050.7604@peregrin.local> <54D0A270-642B-41CF-AD7E-7BBE1E537772@fahrners.de> <B369CBEB-97F1-48DF-8F52-CB324375988E@fahrner.name> <20090411083110.1f49eb28@narn.knownspace> <731E33BB-997D-4AC5-B64A-8A6C21CED7A2@fahrners.de>
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On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:58:57 +0200 Jochen Fahrner <freebsd@fahrners.de> 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
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