On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 18:07 -0600, Bret Hughes wrote: > I used a graphical install with no problem other than the fact that > anaconda never asked me to to configure x and left the box in a butt > ugly 640X480 8 bit vga mode. Hmm, thats the job of firstboot > I also never had a chance to add a non root user. Isn't all this a > firstboot thing. I saw something in the list archives but thoutght I > would mention it for another data point. Bugzilla, though iirc, firstboot not starting seemed to be a heavily reported bug > I ran system-config-display and selected the 9200 and a generic LCD > 1024X768 monitor and it looks fine. > > dmesg and Xorg.0.log report drm and dri in use. Very nice. No Xautoconfig foo required > glxinfo says direct rendering is used. glx gears gets about 9 fps, And > no I did not froget to put a 0 in there it reports nine frames per > second. Hmm, I don't think you're getting accelerated 3d tbh. In fact, with a Radeon 9200 on x86, you might not be getting it either If its a Radeon 9200SE, it almost always fails. I don't know what exact video card the minimac has, so lspci output might help > Next I dl'ed MPlayer and tried to compile it. gcc 4x is not supported > in the configure script so I used --disable-gcc-checking and after the > warning about using a non supported complier, configure completed OK export CC=gcc32 then make mplayer You need the compat packages > Is there a 3.x compiler for FC4 or does anyone know the magic to get > Mplayer to compile? Mplayer and hardware decoding of mpeg2 is the > primary reason for this exercise. > I can post any logs or info anyone needs/ wants to help me figure out > what to do. fedora-ppc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx might offer more help too :) -- Colin Charles, byte@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.bytebot.net/ "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi