Knoppix on Mac

[gill1109]

Do you actually have a iBook with a ATI Rage 128 card? AFAIK only the clamshells (aka. toilet seat) had this card, later models have ATI Radeon cards. If your machine has a Rage128 then (and I'm assuming this does not work with fbdev ) there is a m3mirror utility that will enable Rage128 based powerbooks to drive the external VGA connector for mirroring.
`lspci -v | grep ATI` should show you which card you have.

I think I have the ATI Radeon, so the m3mirror is not for me. But I did find this extraordinary suggestion at

http://mij.oltrelinux.com/ibook/ppc_linux.html

> You should shut down your machine, plug in the vga adapter then
> push the power button to power it up and suddendly close the lid.
> OpenFirmware's gonna detect you want to use an external monitor
> and will enable it itself.

You also have to set up XF86Config. I'll report back if this works, it would be cool if it did (in front of 200 students...!)

The clamshell/toiletseat has also been known as the lady's "powder compact" (from the old days when there were still ladies and they had powder compacts...).

[kayD]

thanks a lot csel ,
i just got the cds !
i'll go back and check them out.
thank you,
by the way can i have your email i.d?
regards,
kayD

[gill1109]

[But I did find this extraordinary suggestion at

http://mij.oltrelinux.com/ibook/ppc_linux.html

> You should shut down your machine, plug in the vga adapter then
> push the power button to power it up and suddendly close the lid.
> OpenFirmware's gonna detect you want to use an external monitor
> and will enable it itself.

You also have to set up XF86Config. I'll report back if this works, it would be cool if it did (in front of 200 students...!)

IT WORKS!!!!

little problems:
* nothing visiible on computer's screen
* if it goes to sleep and then wakes up chaos ensues
... but otherwise fine

[kayD]

hey csel,
tried the cds!
gentoo booted but went blank after booting at default. Failsafe takes me up to the root login
i try to set up X.i tried default mostly.the screen goes blank when i startX.
any suggestions?
will get back to you,regards,
k

[kayD]

hi everyone,
i recently ran knoppix-MIB-ppc-alpha-2e on a G4 with 15" monitor and nvdia 32mb card.(thanks to csel)
it won't boot
i tried passing the xserver=fbdev but the screen would just go blank....i even chose to wait...a long time but nothing would happen.it would just be blank.any ideas?
k

[gill1109]

it won't boot
i tried passing the xserver=fbdev but the screen would just go blank....i even chose to wait...a long time but nothing would happen.it would just be blank.any ideas?
k

did you try getting into text-only mode? i.e. ctrl-alt-F1 ?

[kayD]

yes gill,i tried to boot into text.but in vain.any other suggestions that i should try at boot?

[fleny68]

hi everyone,
i recently ran knoppix-MIB-ppc-alpha-2e on a G4 with 15" monitor and nvdia 32mb card.(thanks to csel)
it won't boot

Hi,
try
knoppix video=ofonly flatpanel
that works on my pmac mirrored door nvidia apple studio 15.

[kayD]

Hi,
try
knoppix video=ofonly flatpanel
that works on my pmac mirrored door nvidia apple studio 15.

i tried to do that and it worked up to a point.
the debian logo came up and then the welcome sign.the kernel was forced boot,and then all kinds of errors.input /output errors.read err's from the cd rom drive.
well any suggestions.
thanks fleny

[Stephen]

Hi,
try
knoppix video=ofonly flatpanel
that works on my pmac mirrored door nvidia apple studio 15.

i tried to do that and it worked up to a point.
the debian logo came up and then the welcome sign.the kernel was forced boot,and then all kinds of errors.input /output errors.read err's from the cd rom drive.
well any suggestions.
thanks fleny

Looks like it might be a bad CD have you tried knoppix testcd to check it for errors.