Linux on the Nintendo GameCube and Wii

Totakeke wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I'm having a problem running GC-Linux. I couldn't find the right place 
> to post this. There isn't a forum for it, so I'm posting it here. I 
> apologize.

This is the right place more or less, so no need for apologies.

> Whenever I run GC-Linux, the screen turns green, mixed with pink and 
> yellow, and black. It just freezes and stays like that. I'm using a 
> U.S. Gamecube and a U.S. Broadband Adapter, and I am on Mac OS X 
> 10.3.2, using PSOLoad.

Sounds like you GC is switching into PAL or PAL-60 and your tv can't 
take the PAL color sync. Someone else can probably elaborate on this 
further.

> I'm excited about this project, and I can't wait to see KDE work. 
> Would it be possible at all for the developers to release some sort of 
> tool kit so we could port existing programs to GC-Linux? And I was 
> thinking... how would we be able to have a virtual hard drive for it? 
> Would it be possible to somehow insert our own files into the .dol 
> file, or compile it ourselves so we can insert our own files into it? 
> That would be neat. :)

Whoa there! KDE? on 24MB ram? dont think so. Unless of course you mean 
use the GC as a X Terminal for a machine running KDE.
Even then, X over 10MB with 16/24bpp is kinda painful, you'd have to use 
TightVNC, LBX, or something else to get decent speeds.

> Arigato!
> -Totakeke

-DCG

On 15.02.2004, at 01:18, Totakeke wrote:
> Whenever I run GC-Linux, the screen turns green, mixed with pink and 
> yellow, and black. It just freezes and stays like that. I'm using a 
> U.S. Gamecube and a U.S. Broadband Adapter, and I am on Mac OS X 
> 10.3.2, using PSOLoad.

Looks like the kernel crashes before the framebuffer driver is up. 
Please ask someone in the CVS to compile a kernel with gamecube-console 
(tmbinc's old code) instead of the framebuffer, and you should see some 
output - then we see where it hangs.

> I'm excited about this project, and I can't wait to see KDE work. 
> Would it be possible at all for the developers to release some sort of 
> tool kit so we could port existing programs to GC-Linux? And I was 
> thinking... how would we be able to have a virtual hard drive for it? 
> Would it be possible to somehow insert our own files into the .dol 
> file, or compile it ourselves so we can insert our own files into it? 
> That would be neat. :)

Yes, we can ship data with the DOL file, i.e. a complete root 
filesystem. But we only have 24 MB or RAM, plus possibly 16 MB of swap 
= 40 MB of RAM.

   Michael

On 15.02.2004, at 03:55, DCGrendel wrote:
> Whoa there! KDE? on 24MB ram? dont think so. Unless of course you mean 
> use the GC as a X Terminal for a machine running KDE.

As soon as we have a swap driver for ARAM, we would have ~ 40 MB. I 
don't think native KDE is impossible. Just not too fast. Gnome should 
be better.

> Even then, X over 10MB with 16/24bpp is kinda painful, you'd have to 
> use TightVNC, LBX, or something else to get decent speeds.

I don't agree. I have been working with X over a 10 MBit connection for 
a long time. Using the GIMP is no good idea, but everything else is 
fine. Just don't use themes that use too many colours.

   Michael