Re: [PD] Pd on Mac OS X

Patrick,

Two things:

1. Be careful that you install OS X first, and reserve a large empty

space at the START of the disk for your Linux partitions. This is because the Open Firmware steps through the partitions in _order_ searching for a boot loader. If it doesn't find Yaboot - the Linux bootloader first, it will boot straight into MacOS.

2. You might not get anything like the full graphics functionality that

your chipset supports. CK is right about the nvidia cards being largely unsupported, but even with an ATI card, I have only ever been able to get XFree86 to run in 8-bit mode!

To bring things back on topic though - Debian on PPC should work great for PD - I don't know about GEM and the video stuff...

Jamie

Patrick Pagano wrote:

i would love an assessment of how hard it was getting debian to run on a mac