sumarise ppc problems

altern enrike at altern.org
Mon Dec 27 14:58:45 UTC 2004


>>>D - kernel : which one to use for your machine?
>>>THere are different kernels (note that i dont know much about this at
>>>all so i am not sure about this at all) to be installed i use the
>>>default one, however my machine is a G4 and i was thinking which would
>>>be the difference is i would be ussing the G4 kernel. Maybe some of the
>>>issues iam describing would be solved?. Also how to do this? just
>>>install in the sinaptics manager the G4 kernel? do i need to set
>>>somewhere that ubuntu uses by default the new kernel?
>>
>>I installed the current (2.6.10 ?) kernel from Hoary last night and
>>didn't have any problems. Are you thinking of the "power-4" or
>>something? I think there are a few kernel options for other PPC
>>machines - like IBM's servers.
> 
> 
> The power4 kernel is for IBM POWER4 and Apple G5 systems. There is no
> specialised G4 kernel, and come to that nothing particularly useful that
> could be done to it to distinguish it from earlier powerpc machines
> anyway; just use the default powerpc kernel.

i see, so it is very much the same. I thought there might be some 
important differences.
thanks


-- 
enrike




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