So I installed Linux Mint PPC. thanks so much for suggesting it. it runs better than OS X, gives me a modern OS and it runs very nicely. Now I just gotta wait till that 44-pin IDE -> LIF/ZIF adapter gets here. Then I will be rocking with Solid State.
Btw, the battery in this is all screwed up. After using it the first time and it lasted 3 hours, I charged it up and when I went to use it, it was at 4 lights for 5 minutes, then it instantly went to 1 blinking light and the machine shut off. I think there is a shorted cell. Before you ask, yes I did try Battery Reset 2.0. It didn't do a darn thing for it.
I got a BRAND NEW 6500mah battery going for it. The cells are brand new, not NOS. So that will be nice. I bought it on eBay, but it cost like $45 + $10 shipping, so kind of expensive. I am just building this up to be a relatively decked-out laptop. I am trying to reduce my vintage computing bulk by moving to laptops rather than desktops. the SCSI port on this came in handy, but I would rather have had FireWire on a Pismo (And the ATA-66MB/s would have helped too!)
Linux Mint runs very nice. I am typing this under it right now in IceWeasel. Took me a bit to figure out how to get my bookmarks to show up on the toolbar. But I got it.
Question: trying to get the one button mouse to simulate two buttons. Is there a modifier I press? I also would like to turn off the tap-to-click. It's annoying as hell having it register clicks when I barely put my finger on the trackpad. I have the plug in for the moue emulation, but i can't access the feature or tune it rather.
Thanks guys! the laptop is turning out nicely (oh and wifi has been upgraded to a D-Link DWL-G650 802.11g PC Card that does WPA2
) and it's plenty fast enough.
Btw, the battery in this is all screwed up. After using it the first time and it lasted 3 hours, I charged it up and when I went to use it, it was at 4 lights for 5 minutes, then it instantly went to 1 blinking light and the machine shut off. I think there is a shorted cell. Before you ask, yes I did try Battery Reset 2.0. It didn't do a darn thing for it.
I got a BRAND NEW 6500mah battery going for it. The cells are brand new, not NOS. So that will be nice. I bought it on eBay, but it cost like $45 + $10 shipping, so kind of expensive. I am just building this up to be a relatively decked-out laptop. I am trying to reduce my vintage computing bulk by moving to laptops rather than desktops. the SCSI port on this came in handy, but I would rather have had FireWire on a Pismo (And the ATA-66MB/s would have helped too!)
Linux Mint runs very nice. I am typing this under it right now in IceWeasel. Took me a bit to figure out how to get my bookmarks to show up on the toolbar. But I got it.
Question: trying to get the one button mouse to simulate two buttons. Is there a modifier I press? I also would like to turn off the tap-to-click. It's annoying as hell having it register clicks when I barely put my finger on the trackpad. I have the plug in for the moue emulation, but i can't access the feature or tune it rather.
Thanks guys! the laptop is turning out nicely (oh and wifi has been upgraded to a D-Link DWL-G650 802.11g PC Card that does WPA2
) and it's plenty fast enough.