On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 03:19:20AM +1100, Steven Hanley wrote: > well I was also kind of wondering, does the pismo have any dedicated > hardware for dvd decoding or anything in it, though I noticed playing said > dvd in macos, if I did anything else at all, even changing the volume, it > made the dvd lag and jump and skip, so maybve it was all being done on the > cpu. i don't really know a whole lot about how DVDs work on computers, i know my blue g3 has a dvd drive and a MPEG hardware decoder on the rage128. whether that has anything to do with the decryption crap i have no idea. ive been so discusted with all the crap going on with dvds i just don't buy them. though either way i am now of the opinion that dvd movies are better done on a regular tv and not the computer. > > you can also use miboot boot floppies, Dan performs some sort of black > > magic to fit a mac kernel on those. > > well for a few days while doing some kernel code to see if I could get it > working I was using the debian boot floppies and such and going in off them > to try new kernels from quik, however it got to be a huge pain booting > through two seperate floppies every time just to set up a quik environment > again (ie had to do command option p r when it locks up on boot to get back > to debian floppy booting and such) so I got sick of the itme it was taken > for any hacking on the kernel, so went and got macos back on so I could boot > in fast to linux after command option p r a serial terminal can save you all that trouble or else setting the input and output device variables properly if your machine has anything resembling a OF video driver. then you can boot into an OF prompt and enter `boot AAPL,ROM' to boot the macos rom (and thus miboot/macos) and just let it boot to get quik. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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