[plug] Linux on Macintosh 8500/120

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Wed Mar 2 00:20:05 WST 2005


On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 23:06 +0800, Gavin Rogers wrote:
> Hi All.
> 
> Anyone have any luck on running Linux on an elderly Macintosh 8500/120? I'd 
> be specifically be interested in how successful the onboard audio/video 
> input output support is. Does it work?

I had an old MkLinux running on my 7200/66 once. Video worked OK -
though it was an unaccelerated framebuffer (like VESA console -
sloooow).

What Linux distro to choose will depend a lot on the machine, in
particular whether it's a NuBus or PCI based mac.

-- 
Craig Ringer




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