Linux xuxu 2.6.12-10-powerpc #1 Mon Jan 16 17:38:57 UTC 2006 ppc GNU/Linux 

Finalmente criei coragem e instalei o Ubuntu em meu laptop, um iBook. Primeiramente fiz um teste com o live cd, que funcionou bem (basta apertar "c" durante o boot do MacOSX para selecionar boot pelo cd). Fiz o bom e velho backup (tar cvf - -C / . | ssh backupserver -l helio "dd of=/usr/local/BKP/xuxu-fullbackup-macosx.tar") e mandei ver. Apanhei um pouco com o particionamento até descobrir que a mídia do cd de instalação estava ruim. Passado por isso, tudo correu normalmente e sem sustos.
Infelizmente acabei errando a restauração do backup e apaguei tudo o que estava salvo, perdendo duas semanas de trabalho e mails, ou seja, nada preocupante. Depois de tudo instalado, atualizei o sistema para o Kubuntu, a versão do Ubuntu baseada no ambiente kde, uma vez que concordo com Linus Torvalds sobre o fato do ambiente Gnome ser extremamente espartano em relação à usabilidade.
Os resultados foram:

  • Processador: PowerPC 400 MHz (new world)
  • Memória: 384 MB
  • Modem: Não funciona
  • Som: Não funciona
  • Serial USB: OK
  • Mouse touchpad: OK
  • Mouse USB: OK
  • X windows (xorg): OK
  • APM: Não funciona
  • Ethernet: OK
  • Wi-Fi USB (DWL-122): Parcialmente funcionando
  • Drive DVD: OK
  • Botão de ejetar o DVD: OK

O resultado do dmesg segue abaixo:

[ 0.000000] Total memory = 384MB; using 1024kB for hash table (at c0400000) 
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.12-10-powerpc (buildd@ross) (gcc version 3.4.5 20050809 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 3 .4.4-6ubuntu8)) #1 Mon Jan 16 17:38:57 UTC 2006 
[ 0.000000] Found UniNorth memory controller & host bridge, revision: 192 
[ 0.000000] Mapped at 0xfdf00000 
[ 0.000000] Found a Pangea mac-io controller, rev: 0, mapped at 0xfde80000 
[ 0.000000] Processor NAP mode on idle enabled. 
[ 0.000000] PowerMac motherboard: iBook 2 
[ 0.000000] Found UniNorth PCI host bridge at 0xf0000000. Firmware bus number: 0->0 
[ 0.000000] Found UniNorth PCI host bridge at 0xf2000000. Firmware bus number: 0->0 
[ 0.000000] Found UniNorth PCI host bridge at 0xf4000000. Firmware bus number: 0->0 
[ 0.000000] via-pmu: Server Mode is disabled 
[ 0.000000] PMU driver 2 initialized for Core99, firmware: 0c 
[ 0.000000] nvram: Checking bank 0... 
[ 0.000000] nvram: gen0=592, gen1=593 
[ 0.000000] nvram: Active bank is: 1 
[ 0.000000] nvram: OF partition at 0x210 
[ 0.000000] nvram: XP partition at 0x1220 
[ 0.000000] nvram: NR partition at 0x1320 
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 98304 
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 98304 pages, LIFO batch:31 
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 
[ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists 
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 ro quiet splash 
[ 0.000000] PowerMac using OpenPIC irq controller at 0x80040000 
[ 0.000000] OpenPIC Version 1.2 (4 CPUs and 64 IRQ sources) at fc62f000 
[ 0.000000] OpenPIC timer frequency is 4.160000 MHz 
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes) 
[ 0.000000] GMT Delta read from XPRAM: -360 minutes, DST: off 
[ 0.000000] time_init: decrementer frequency = 16.640000 MHz 
[ 27.752076] Console: colour dummy device 80x25 
[ 27.752130] serial8250_console_init: nothing to do on PowerMac 
[ 27.752196] pmac_zilog: i2c-modem detected, id: 1 
[ 27.754628] Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) 
[ 27.756631] Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) 
[ 27.813619] Memory: 378752k available (1920k kernel code, 1104k data, 172k init, 0k highmem) 
[ 27.813634] AGP special page: 0xd7fff000 
[ 27.813863] Calibrating delay loop... 995.32 BogoMIPS (lpj=497664) 
[ 27.832800] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 
[ 27.833375] device-tree: property "l2-cache" name conflicts with node in /cpus/PowerPC,750@0 
[ 27.836117] checking if image is initramfs... it is 
[ 29.242549] Freeing initrd memory: 6308k freed 
[ 29.245349] NET: Registered protocol family 16 
[ 29.246802] PCI: Probing PCI hardware 
[ 29.251318] Registering openpic with sysfs... 
[ 29.254087] Thermal assist unit using timers, shrink_timer: 2000 jiffies 
[ 29.254451] Registering PowerMac CPU frequency driver 
[ 29.254470] Low: 400 Mhz, High: 499 Mhz, Boot: 499 Mhz 
[ 29.255903] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) 
[ 29.255944] audit: initialized 
[ 29.256502] devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) 
[ 29.256522] devfs: boot_options: 0x0 
[ 29.256661] Initializing Cryptographic API 
[ 29.257354] PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:10.0 (0086 -> 0087) 
[ 29.258072] aty128fb: Invalid ROM signature 63c7 should be 0xaa55 
[ 29.258124] aty128fb: BIOS not located, guessing timings. 
[ 29.258144] aty128fb: Rage128 LF M3 AGP [chip rev 0x0] 8M 128-bit SDR SGRAM (1:1) 
[ 29.292471] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48 
[ 29.302580] Registered "ati" backlight controller,level: 15/15 
[ 29.302602] fb0: ATY Rage128 frame buffer device on Rage128 LF M3 AGP 
[ 29.309177] Generic RTC Driver v1.07 
[ 29.309326] Macintosh non-volatile memory driver v1.1 
[ 29.309465] serial8250_init: nothing to do on PowerMac 
[ 29.309594] pmac_zilog: 0.6 (Benjamin Herrenschmidt ) 
[ 29.309634] ttyS0 at MMIO 0x80013020 (irq = 22) is a Z85c30 ESCC - Internal modem 
[ 29.309793] ttyS1 at MMIO 0x80013000 (irq = 23) is a Z85c30 ESCC - Serial port 
[ 29.309959] io scheduler noop registered 
[ 29.310029] io scheduler anticipatory registered 
[ 29.310045] io scheduler deadline registered 
[ 29.310079] io scheduler cfq registered 
[ 29.311538] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize 
[ 29.311893] MacIO PCI driver attached to Pangea chipset 
[ 29.313584] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation 
[ 29.313996] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 
[ 29.314025] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx 
[ 29.314274] adb: starting probe task... 
[ 29.560449] adb devices: [2]: 2 c3 [3]: 3 1 [7]: 7 1f 
[ 29.566465] ADB keyboard at 2, handler 1 
[ 29.566492] Detected ADB keyboard, type ANSI. 
[ 29.566613] input: ADB keyboard on adb2:2.c3/input 
[ 29.566714] input: ADB Powerbook buttons on adb7:7.1f/input 
[ 29.581559] ADB mouse at 3, handler set to 4 (trackpad) 
[ 29.640209] input: ADB mouse on adb3:3.01/input 
[ 29.640218] adb: finished probe task... 
[ 30.326674] ide0: Found Apple KeyLargo ATA-4 controller, bus ID 2, irq 19 
[ 30.326735] Probing IDE interface ide0... 
[ 31.127004] hda: FUJITSU MHN2200AT, ATA DISK drive 
[ 31.534982] hdb: MATSHITADVD-ROM SR-8176, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive 
[ 31.585677] hda: Enabling Ultra DMA 2 
[ 31.586836] ide0 at 0xd900e000-0xd900e007,0xd900e160 on irq 19 
[ 31.587690] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice 
[ 31.588110] Found KeyWest i2c on "uni-n", 2 channels, stepping: 4 bits 
[ 31.588376] Found KeyWest i2c on "mac-io", 1 channel, stepping: 4 bits 
[ 31.588529] NET: Registered protocol family 2 
[ 31.597939] IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes 
[ 31.598874] TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) 
[ 31.599982] TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) 
[ 31.600533] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384) 
[ 31.600849] Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k init 4k chrp 32k prep 
[ 32.927282] NET: Registered protocol family 1 
[ 33.018626] hda: max request size: 128KiB 
[ 33.018677] hda: 39070080 sectors (20003 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=38760/16/63, UDMA(33) 
[ 33.344988] hda: cache flushes supported 
[ 33.345328] /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [mac] p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 p7 p8 
[ 33.388833] hdb: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache 
[ 33.388865] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 
[ 34.211273] Attempting manual resume 
[ 34.235905] swsusp: Suspend partition has wrong signature? 
[ 34.454211] usbcore: registered new driver usbfs 
[ 34.454340] usbcore: registered new driver hub 
[ 34.458820] ohci_hcd: 2004 Nov 08 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) 
[ 34.459029] PCI: Enabling device 0001:10:18.0 (0000 -> 0002) 
[ 34.459084] ohci_hcd 0001:10:18.0: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Pangea USB 
[ 34.459501] ohci_hcd 0001:10:18.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 
[ 34.459542] ohci_hcd 0001:10:18.0: irq 27, io mem 0x80081000 
[ 34.490073] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found 
[ 34.490121] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected 
[ 34.510730] PCI: Enabling device 0001:10:19.0 (0000 -> 0002) 
[ 34.510768] ohci_hcd 0001:10:19.0: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Pangea USB (#2) 
[ 34.511015] ohci_hcd 0001:10:19.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 
[ 34.511045] ohci_hcd 0001:10:19.0: irq 28, io mem 0x80080000 
[ 34.541934] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found 
[ 34.541997] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected 
[ 34.583693] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2 
[ 34.721406] sungem.c:v0.98 8/24/03 David S. Miller (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) 
[ 34.783980] PHY ID: 4061e3, addr: 0 
[ 34.784771] eth0: Sun GEM (PCI) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:03:93:4b:41:0a 
[ 34.784791] eth0: Found BCM5221 PHY 
[ 38.481584] Attempting manual resume 
[ 38.505096] swsusp: Suspend partition has wrong signature? 
[ 38.618018] ReiserFS: hda3: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal 
[ 38.654076] ReiserFS: hda3: using ordered data mode 
[ 38.674348] ReiserFS: hda3: journal params: device hda3, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30 
[ 38.686037] ReiserFS: hda3: checking transaction log (hda3) 
[ 38.717364] ReiserFS: hda3: Using r5 hash to sort names 
[ 40.103690] md: md driver 0.90.1 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 
[ 45.693555] Adding 976552k swap on /dev/hda7. Priority:-1 extents:1 
[ 56.138380] apm_emu: APM Emulation 0.5 initialized. 
[ 56.780247] ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394' 
[ 56.823978] SCSI subsystem initialized 
[ 56.836025] sbp2: $Rev: 1219 $ Ben Collins 
[ 63.745657] device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
[ 64.911717] cdrom: open failed. 
[ 81.095122] ReiserFS: hda6: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal 
[ 81.652372] ReiserFS: hda6: using ordered data mode 
[ 81.667138] ReiserFS: hda6: journal params: device hda6, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30 
[ 81.678856] ReiserFS: hda6: checking transaction log (hda6) 
[ 81.738702] ReiserFS: hda6: Using r5 hash to sort names 
[ 81.791037] ReiserFS: hda4: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal 
[ 81.825153] ReiserFS: hda4: using ordered data mode 
[ 81.845801] ReiserFS: hda4: journal params: device hda4, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30 
[ 81.857437] ReiserFS: hda4: checking transaction log (hda4) 
[ 81.875450] ReiserFS: hda4: Using r5 hash to sort names 
[ 81.918332] ReiserFS: hda8: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal 
[ 82.864317] ReiserFS: hda8: using ordered data mode 
[ 82.890590] ReiserFS: hda8: journal params: device hda8, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30 
[ 82.902167] ReiserFS: hda8: checking transaction log (hda8) 
[ 82.990436] ReiserFS: hda8: Using r5 hash to sort names 
[ 83.118379] ReiserFS: hda5: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal 
[ 83.215631] ReiserFS: hda5: using ordered data mode 
[ 83.228877] ReiserFS: hda5: journal params: device hda5, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900,max commit age 30, max trans age 30 
[ 83.240584] ReiserFS: hda5: checking transaction log (hda5) 
[ 83.287336] ReiserFS: hda5: Using r5 hash to sort names 
[ 86.059385] Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones 
[ 86.107308] agpgart: Detected Apple UniNorth/Pangea chipset 
[ 86.107791] agpgart: configuring for size idx: 4 
[ 86.140162] agpgart: AGP aperture is 16M @ 0x0 [ 88.391535] ohci1394: $Rev: 1250 $ Ben Collins 
[ 88.422556] ohci1394: fw-host0: Unexpected PCI resource length of 1000! 
[ 88.475133] ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[40] MMIO=[f5000000-f50007ff] Max Packet=[2048] 
[ 89.753747] ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[000393fffe4b410a] 
[ 91.572039] prism2usb_init: prism2_usb.o: 0.2.2 Loaded 
[ 91.572074] prism2usb_init: dev_info is: prism2_usb 
[ 91.615937] usbcore: registered new driver prism2_usb 
[ 92.624477] ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output 
[ 96.041571] NET: Registered protocol family 17