FreeBSD on eMac G4 1.25 GHz

[aggaz]

Dear people of the FreeBSD-PPC world,

in the last few days I played with FreeBSD 10.1 RELEASE PPC and an eMac
G4 1.25 GHz (PPC).

I was able to install the base system without problems (and I add kudos
to you because other *BSD were almost impossible to play with (yes, it's
my fist tyme with *BSD)). Only problem (at first) was a SegFault while
compiling Xorg (the problem was actually Mesa related), but a very
friendly user of the #freebsd-xorg IRC channel on EFNet (called
dumbbell) solved the issue. He told me to add these lines to
/usr/ports/graphics/dri/Makefile just before the line saying ". if
(${OSVERSION} >= 901500 && ${OSVERSION} < 1000000)":

USE_GCC=        yes
USE_BINUTILS=   yes
LDFLAGS+=       -B${LOCALBASE}/bin


Thanks to him I compiled xorg-minimal.

However, I was not allowed to use xf86-video-ati because it says that
the port is not PPC compatible, I installed xf86-video-ati-ums instead
(as suggested by another helpful user, called Avengence).

Given that I was not able to compile any browser, I gave up, and
switched back to Debian. I am sad, I liked the idea to start using
FreeBSD, but I understand, nobody cares about PPC anymore, even Debian
Jessie is too much buggy.

I just wanted to tell you that it could be useful to modify the file
above to help other users.

Best regards
Francesco

P.S: I am not subscribed to the mailing list, if someone will reply, i
would appreciate to be inserted in the "cc".