Mac On Linux
Peter Gort
pgort at iprimus.com.au
Thu Dec 29 07:24:40 UTC 2005
Hi All,
I'm a very occasional user of Ubuntu...I'd like to use it more.
I've just installed Breezy on a 2004 model Apple Titanium Powerbook,
1.5Ghz model. I've been very pleasantly surprised at how many things
not only "just work", but work well. I haven't touched Ubuntu in about
a year, and it's really come on...so much so that I'd like to see if I
can stay in it more in my professional time, which means I HAVE to be
able to run Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.
Anyway, I thought I'd have another go at getting Mac-On-linux working. I
tried to get it working once before about a year ago, and failed.
Seeing that the instructions at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MacOnLinuxHowto
seem to have been updated for Breezy, I thought it might be a successful
venture, but alas, I've got the same problem I had a year ago. This
time I thought I'd ask for help. I'm not an experienced Linux user, so
I'm probably missing something blindingly obvious, so be gentle with me.
I followed the instructions very carefully, including copying and
pasting the exact instructions given into the terminal, to avoid my
dyslexic typing. I got up to the section on running as a normal user,
edited
/etc/mol/molrc.osx
and allocated 256MB to MOL. I've got 1G Ram in the Powerbook so I
thought this a reasonable amount.
When I started it with
startmol --osx
the first time, I got an error about missing modules. I rebooted the
system to make sure all variables are in the default state and tried
again, and this time I got a window with the Penguin hugging the Apple
to it's nose. "Hooray" I thought, but it never went any further, and
the terminal window I invoked it in has hundreds of lines of
RVEC-DEBUGGER <1882>
in it.
I tried
startmol --loadonly
and that apparently succeeds.
I tried
startmol --test
and got a bunch of stuff that starts out
Running in PowerPC 7400 mode, 48 MB RAM
Timebase: 18.43 MHz, Bus: 73.72 MHz, Clock: 749 MHz
Failed to lookup IRQ
Using USB mouse on /dev/input/mice
Could not open '/var/lib/mol/x11.kbd'
Failed to register sound card
*******************************************
* Testing performance *
*******************************************
-- SUPERVISOR SPRs -------------------------
and ends with
*******************************************
* Self-test successful *
*******************************************
I'm guessing there's some setting in the config file I haven't got
right, but I really don't know what I'm doing. Does anybody know how /
got experience with getting Mac-On-Linux working?
--
Peter Gort <pgort at iprimus.com.au>
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