On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:13:23AM -0500, Michal Seta wrote: > > I have a PPC7200, with 601e chip, it's similar to the original > poster's setup, minus the G3 upgrade. I don't know about upgrade cards, > never tried it on a ppc, but this was my first linux machine with YDL > 1999 and then YDL2000 (actually, before YDL1999 I had installed > MkLinux!, around 1997-98 and then linuxppc). Obviously, I haven't upgraded in 4 years(!) > but it's still running, I use it mostly as a file server and for > burning CDs... If I find my old keyboard I will prolly try to install > a newer distro... > > However, I was able to use audio, although in those days a lot of apps > had endianess issues. > > IIRC this was one of the first PCI machines apple did (I think 6400 & > 6500 came first) and I believe that all PCI based powermacs will run > linux. > > Haha, I think that this would make me a veteran apple hardware user for > sound applications. All the other linux mac users didn't seem to be > interested in sound, beyond playing CDs and mp3 files. ALSA was > nonexistent and I had to deal with OSS, and I believe I even purchased > the license for the full-duplex support. > > I used to run MixedViews (or somesuch), csound, pd > > <boring note> > I used to dual boot with MacOS8.6 and used to compare performance of > various apps. Csound run better (faster) on that machine on linux > side (compared to csoundPPC) and Pd seemed more efficient than > Max/MSP. > </> > > > ./MiS > > Joe Hartley <jh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: Thanks. That's encouraging. -Eric Rz.
