Re: iMac G3 support in Sid, Impossible?
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 05:46:19PM +0000, Alex McKeever wrote:
> I was told that the kernel is why it doesn’t work 100%... that it needs User Space Modesetting and thus needs an older kernel like 2.6, 3.13 or 4.4.0-187 to work properly at all with the Rage128. I’d hate to say it but I’ve lost faith in Debian/Ubuntu. I will be giving Adelie Linux a shot because nothing else modern enough supports the iMac G3’s in terms of Linux. BSD is a nightmare.
You have lost faith in Debian because a 20 year old machine (made by a
company that did tons of hack jobs and had lots of bugs in the firmware)
running an architecture that is no longer a release architecture (because
apparently there wasn't enough people to maintain it at a high enough
level) has a problem with the video card (and the video card happens
to be one of the hack jobs given the card was only ever really designed
for x86 machines and not fully documented)?
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Len Sorensen
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