12/30/06 02:32 , Categories: Gentoo

I finally was able to find a PS3 in my neck of the woods and snapped it up. Two other Gentoo devs, tgall and dostrow, got one too. All of this LiveCD work thus far had been done on speculation and with generous folks testing for me. It was quite a process and moving iso images around was terribly time consuming. The Gentoo end of development on the PS3 should therefore pickup.

I also have a real handle on the kboot bootloader now and am to build my own from source. The work will likely pay off. I have even built a safe-mode image in case you blow up the kboot file on your hard-drive.

I also spent the best part of the day trying to understand the video behind this PS3 and what its requirements were. With only old composite TVs in-house, I was really struggling with making this thing useful in a Linux way. I bought a HDMI to DVI adapter hoping to get it to work on my LCD, but it didn't. It seems you need a hdcp capable LCD if you go that route. Grr... I bought a Gateway monitor that was hdcp capable. So far, so good. I had my eyes on a Samsung LCD HDTV with PC input, and hdcp-capable DVI but they are on their way out.

Well best of luck to you fellow PS3 Linux gearheads. We have a couple of very interesting projects in mind and could always use another set of hands.

Peace,

Ranger

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Comment from: cruisx [Visitor]

how can i install this? can someone give me instructions pls?

12/30/06 @ 18:20

Comment from: Brent BAUDE [Member]

· http://dev.gentoo.org/~ranger/

Cruisx,

When you say "how do I install this?"; is the this referring to the LiveCD or kboot images?

The LiveCD can be found on the Gentoo mirrors -> http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml . Find a decent mirror and then look under experimental/ppc64. Using the LiveCD is easy. Install the otheros images from Sony, and then put the Livecd in the drive.

If you are talking about the other images I referenced in my post, I haven't put them anywhere yet as I am putting final touches on them and also enabling vi inside the kboot image so an editor is there.

Join us on irc.freenode.net on #gentoo-ppc64 if you would like help. Lots of capable, friendly people there.

12/30/06 @ 19:48

Comment from: cruisx [Visitor]

thanks i will join there, i was wondering about how i would get it to run on my ps3, like thw whole installition process.

12/31/06 @ 23:12

Comment from: Brent BAUDE [Member]

· http://dev.gentoo.org/~ranger/

I have been working on documenting the relevant facts around the LiveCD here. See if this URL helps:

http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/cell/wiki/LiveCDDocumentation

01/01/07 @ 01:15

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