From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 10 15:52:37 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 35A757F7 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 15:52:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qk0-f176.google.com (mail-qk0-f176.google.com [209.85.220.176]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E55E5C38 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 15:52:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qku63 with SMTP id 63so34943648qku.3 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:52:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=i1+M+5sRrBcym5RImuaSfJd/6TgYqN6SUa0IWOR1GUY=; b=gk1G4PcNDKCKvIBNVB5FZv0fSrR/wmhEESNy1cy3psJO7YzYD3dUnwfdAgqpkQuJLI 7G+N+6m0aZ7IyUe3VsBhBShFYvuXtMl9XJYrfubR9sNzM0mrnM5y5+ftOAzx0CWL3C25 gZnU9EWhidwdUBkL6Yhho/aBt5nuvlKGbDVFiOE+vY2oO6xvMms5XJAzi4hzrQTf8tXf Gzkb9SSKQevWvMciG9IQsAm5HhnQCn393Ak44404RstmhfP25CZ8tVAela15SklaNE3e fLcJQ0K8gE1MCx1QCKPB+NZvhD7/t5dfdICcPbuiYsTucLo+BygRs3M1v3kQMy2UPPNF stSQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkw8PqOFPpPJTS1jllPrT4k1RK1idgsrUEdV97GGVRTWSCgl63nvWsrnvFS8jrTbnlwcdPw X-Received: by 10.229.66.198 with SMTP id o6mr2609684qci.31.1428681150466; Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:52:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.21.96.160] (static-74-110-169-50.rcmdva.fios.verizon.net. [74.110.169.50]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id 34sm1880842qky.7.2015.04.10.08.52.29 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 10 Apr 2015 08:52:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5527F1BD.9010409@teamblackfox.com> Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 11:52:29 -0400 From: Black Fox User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: aggaz Subject: Re: FreeBSD on eMac G4 1.25 GHz References: <5527EFCB.1000503@paranoici.org> In-Reply-To: <5527EFCB.1000503@paranoici.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 15:52:37 -0000 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". > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"