Mac On Linux

[Peter Garrett]

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:24:40 +1100
Peter Gort <pgort at iprimus.com.au> wrote:


> 
> 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>

Hi Peter,

I had mol working on warty, including networking and sound - with breezy I
haven't been able to get sound working, and it freezes totally when I try
to use any sound
apps like vlc or
itunes etc

I found the URL below, in conjunction with the howto you used, useful. I
have a feeling there might have been a problem with using gcc-4 when the
kernel was compiled with gcc-3.4, but attempting to use gcc-3.4 didn't
solve my problem.

 http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~ctwardy/mol-debian-benh.html

I would also like to hear from anyone who got mol working fully with an
iBook G4 1.2Ghz , and breezy.

Peter

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