On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 11:15 -0600, Christopher Howard wrote: > I have a Performa 5200CD and a Performa 6320CD. The 6320 is faster with > biger hard disk and has some type of video capture card in it. The 5200 > is a one piece with the built in monitor. I figure move what I can to > it. This is a NuBus system. These are terrible machines. They're PPCs kludged onto an '040 motherboard. http://lowendmac.com/tech/x200.shtml ...So I was absolutely astounded when I was able to boot Linux on a 5200: http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/ The kernel booted, but thats all the farther I dared to go. These things are slower than molasses. My high school had a 5200 in each classroom. They were barely faster than the LCIIs that filled the computer labs... I don't think any distribution supports NuBus PPC out of the box. Hell, nothing supports OldWorld anymore. You're deep in hack-it-yourself territory here. Personally I have a 6500/275 (OldWorld PCI) running FC4. I managed this by installing Yellow Dog 3 (last OldWorld supporting version), finding a third party OldWorld compatible 2.6 kernel package, and upgrading via yum... > If posible it be nice to watch a VCR or DVD thru the video card, use it > as a TV, and then have streaming audio off the net at other times. I > know what I need to get Debian onto it, but does any one have knowledge > about the video capture card? There's a Plan B v4l driver, but near as I can tell its pretty bitrotted these days. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 191 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060310/17551c82/attachment.pgp