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Gentoo + KDE 4.3.0 now going on the Yeeloong

2009/08/16 Redhatter (VK4MSL) 2 comments

Well… after much building by one of the older Lemote systems, I finally have a Gentoo desktop with KDE 4.3.0 on the Lemote Yeeloong.

I’m still working on the rest of the KDE suite… and will have to track down the necessary bits and pieces for battery monitoring and other goodies… but it seems everything is working. It also is slightly more responsive on Gentoo than Debian (which I still have in a chroot).

This post is being written in Konqueror 4.3.0 on the said installation… it passes the Acid 2 test, but has a few stability glitches here and there… so far both the Acid 3 test, and Google Groups crashes it. I’ll sort this out later.

In short, this does mean I’ll be coaxing my O2 into making the same journey and making the necessary tree modifications in order to allow KDE 4.3 on Gentoo/MIPS.

#1 | Written by gs about 2 years ago. Log in to Reply

Two questions.
Where did you get the Leemote Yeelong?
I have an old SGI Indy, but I have never turned it on. Do you connect yours to a SGI monitor or do you have a special cable to convert the output to VGA (or DVI even)?
#2 | Written by Redhatter (VK4MSL) about 2 years ago. Log in to Reply

Where to get a Yeeloong? It’s dependant on where you live, there are some distributors around the world. In my case, I contacted Lemote directly.

As for the Indy… you need a monitor that supports Sync-on-Green, and perhaps a 13W3->DB15 adaptor. I’ve got a few CRT monitors that do the Sync-on-green, one Samsung SyncMaster 17GLsi 17″ (DB15 and BNC inputs), a Sun GDM-5410 20″ (which has both DB15 and 13W3 inputs), a SGI GDM20D11 (13W3 input) and a Hitachi 20″ (13W3 input, came with DB15 adaptor for IBM PC use).

If you decide to make your own adaptor cable (I did), to plug into a SoG-compatible monitor, just cut a good quality VGA cable and a good quality 13W3 cable in half, and solder the three coax feeds together — they should be colour coded.

If you lack a suitable monitor, there’s serial console (just boot without the keyboard plugged in, and use a Macintosh serial cable into the serial port). Or, there are circuits you can build to extract the sync signal out of the green signal.

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