Awesome, so strange to see modern KDE running on this PowerBook. It's also surprising to see how modern these laptops look even nowadays with those bezels!
Thanks! I agree, these old PowerBooks look surprisingly modern considering their age. It’s nice to see modern KDE is usable on the hardware, even if it’s slow and a little choppy.
Nice! I’d love to track down a DSLD 15” PowerBook but they seem pretty scarce. I also run 10.5.8 on my 15” PB, having 2GB of RAM and better GPU features helps for sure.
Have you revisited this project? I did it on my Blue and white g3. I also got openbsd to work. I ordered a pci r7000 64meg card with dvi, s-video, and vga card. it won't boot into macOS with it (I think I screwed up a prior r7000 trying to flash it within osx to mac rom, so I found another one on ebay and am not going to try. I do have a r7000 32mb card in the machine now, which was flashed successfully years ago so I can have 2 video cards, one to run macos/osx, and one for openbsd and hopefully Adelie 1.0 b5. The Live CD didn't seem to recognize it, but when I booted it with the 32meg card that worked fine. I had hoped that I could just have both cards in, boot and just swap over to the dvi card but I think because it didn't load drivers during live-cd temp install, it didn't see it. Regardless, I'll keep messing with it. if it doesn't work I'll just relegate the 64meg card for when it's booted into openbsd.
I want to Install Adelie also in a powerbook g4 but in the 17 inches model . Instead of a cd, im booting to the partitions options where it shows the disk with penguin icon. But when i select it to boot, it returns to the same point, no matter how many times I select it. Any ideas what to do to make it boot to the installer? Thanks.
Why not use Firefox with flags to enable hardware acceleration and make sure you have all the updated mesa drivers installed and that nouveau is being used for acceleration?
Honestly, the video was taking a long time to create and I hadn’t figured out how to properly compile it on adelie for ppc in that timeframe unfortunately. Any tips on compiling Firefox for ppc on adelie?
Hmm there’s a few possibilities but one I recall encountering was due to system time/date being incorrect. Have you verified that yours is correct upon installation? My clock battery is dead so I had to set it manually, repeatedly. Also are you using RC2 or RC3?
I haven't messed with the machine lately but I am under the impression that you may need to wait until the RC3 release (supposedly very soon) for this to work. I have seen mention that RC2 support has ended even though it is the only option they offer for ppc currently. I managed to find some potentially helpful information in a post on macrumors below, I know it is for a G5 but it seems it may be of use. forums.macrumors.com/threads/new-installs-of-adelie-linux-rc2-and-below-are-now-broken.2371012/post-31874121 "forums.macrumors.com/members/powerpcfan.1305336/ "git.adelielinux.org/-/snippets/12 for Manual Installation instructions git.adelielinux.org/-/snippets/130 for a little more detail but the auto installer does not work for a G5. This is more for trying to follow the manual steps. At the point of the manual installation where you are to start dealing the APK keys and repositories, do this instead: mkdir -p /target/etc/apk curl -o /target/keys.apk distfiles.adelielinux.org/adelie/keys-20221101/ppc64/adelie-keys-1.0-r2.apk tar -xf /target/keys.apk && rm -r /target/keys.apk apk --root /target --initdb add echo -e "next.adelielinux.org/system next.adelielinux.org/user" >> /target/etc/apk/repositories apk --root /target update "
Why KDE? The hardware is already ancient for modern standards to handle system resources consumption of DE. Wouldn't Mate which is a for of good old Gnome 2 be better?
Awesome, so strange to see modern KDE running on this PowerBook. It's also surprising to see how modern these laptops look even nowadays with those bezels!
Thanks! I agree, these old PowerBooks look surprisingly modern considering their age. It’s nice to see modern KDE is usable on the hardware, even if it’s slow and a little choppy.
Very cool! I have the latest of these modela and also a 15’ that I upgraded with an mSata but use 10.5.8
Nice! I’d love to track down a
DSLD 15” PowerBook but they seem pretty scarce. I also run 10.5.8 on my 15” PB, having 2GB of RAM and better GPU features helps for sure.
Have you revisited this project? I did it on my Blue and white g3. I also got openbsd to work. I ordered a pci r7000 64meg card with dvi, s-video, and vga card. it won't boot into macOS with it (I think I screwed up a prior r7000 trying to flash it within osx to mac rom, so I found another one on ebay and am not going to try. I do have a r7000 32mb card in the machine now, which was flashed successfully years ago so I can have 2 video cards, one to run macos/osx, and one for openbsd and hopefully Adelie 1.0 b5. The Live CD didn't seem to recognize it, but when I booted it with the 32meg card that worked fine. I had hoped that I could just have both cards in, boot and just swap over to the dvi card but I think because it didn't load drivers during live-cd temp install, it didn't see it. Regardless, I'll keep messing with it. if it doesn't work I'll just relegate the 64meg card for when it's booted into openbsd.
I want to Install Adelie also in a powerbook g4 but in the 17 inches model . Instead of a cd, im booting to the partitions options where it shows the disk with penguin icon. But when i select it to boot, it returns to the same point, no matter how many times I select it. Any ideas what to do to make it boot to the installer? Thanks.
How do you get to the partitions
Does anybody know if there is a projected date for support for Rage128 video (MacG3 Blue and White) to be added to Adelie? Thanks.
A complex installation, but you got there!👍👍
Why not use Firefox with flags to enable hardware acceleration and make sure you have all the updated mesa drivers installed and that nouveau is being used for acceleration?
Honestly, the video was taking a long time to create and I hadn’t figured out how to properly compile it on adelie for ppc in that timeframe unfortunately. Any tips on compiling Firefox for ppc on adelie?
You already have the Mac OSX system installed. How do you install Adelie on a Mac with a blank hard disk?
How do i get to the hard drive/boot menu
mine is a dual g4-2ghz with pci-x fx5200agp 8 gb memory dual layer dvd drive
Is there a way I can get the untrusted signatures to force themselves to be trusted? It keeps saying untrusted signature and it refuses to install.
Hmm there’s a few possibilities but one I recall encountering was due to system time/date being incorrect. Have you verified that yours is correct upon installation? My clock battery is dead so I had to set it manually, repeatedly. Also are you using RC2 or RC3?
@@markdoestechthings the time/date is correct and RC2.
I haven't messed with the machine lately but I am under the impression that you may need to wait until the RC3 release (supposedly very soon) for this to work. I have seen mention that RC2 support has ended even though it is the only option they offer for ppc currently.
I managed to find some potentially helpful information in a post on macrumors below, I know it is for a G5 but it seems it may be of use.
forums.macrumors.com/threads/new-installs-of-adelie-linux-rc2-and-below-are-now-broken.2371012/post-31874121
"forums.macrumors.com/members/powerpcfan.1305336/
"git.adelielinux.org/-/snippets/12 for Manual Installation instructions
git.adelielinux.org/-/snippets/130 for a little more detail but the auto installer does not work for a G5. This is more for trying to follow the manual steps.
At the point of the manual installation where you are to start dealing the APK keys and repositories, do this instead:
mkdir -p /target/etc/apk
curl -o /target/keys.apk distfiles.adelielinux.org/adelie/keys-20221101/ppc64/adelie-keys-1.0-r2.apk
tar -xf /target/keys.apk && rm -r /target/keys.apk
apk --root /target --initdb add
echo -e "next.adelielinux.org/system
next.adelielinux.org/user" >> /target/etc/apk/repositories
apk --root /target update "
@@markdoestechthings I even tried that and the tar command says not a valid file.
@RetroPCUser What is your exact machine? I can attempt to repeat this over the weekend and get back to you with my findings.
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Why KDE? The hardware is already ancient for modern standards to handle system resources consumption of DE. Wouldn't Mate which is a for of good old Gnome 2 be better?