Brent Baude

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