Hey. A friend of mine bought an iMac from good will for $50, took it home, then phoned me to ask what was up with it. I went over and saw it was running Debian (not sure what specific ver.) I fiddled with it, only to find X wouldn't work, so I popped in my Ubuntu disc (5.10 PPC) and tried that. It installed correctally, and loads the OS fine, but X still wont load. It just goes to a black screen. What should I do? My thoughts were check the version of X, and see if I could get an older one, perhaps the video card wont handel this version.
I'm not an expert, well, I'm more so a novice, so I came to the people that know ever thing; X86 (hopefully PPC is well known here, too!)
What should I do, any tips, or tricks to find more information so I can be more specific?
Thanks, Guys. (Girls, too. If Ergot's gotten that opperation.)
Check what error x is giving you. xorgconf or modify xorg.conf as appropriate.
Quote from: Newby on October 24, 2007, 09:39:47 PM
Check what error x is giving you.
That can be done by looking at /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Quote from: Super_X on October 24, 2007, 09:33:19 PM
Hey. A friend of mine bought an iMac from good will for $50, took it home, then phoned me to ask what was up with it. I went over and saw it was running Debian (not sure what specific ver.) I fiddled with it, only to find X wouldn't work, so I popped in my Ubuntu disc (5.10 PPC) and tried that. It installed correctally, and loads the OS fine, but X still wont load. It just goes to a black screen. What should I do? My thoughts were check the version of X, and see if I could get an older one, perhaps the video card wont handel this version.
I'm not an expert, well, I'm more so a novice, so I came to the people that know ever thing; X86 (hopefully PPC is well known here, too!)
What should I do, any tips, or tricks to find more information so I can be more specific?
Thanks, Guys. (Girls, too. If Ergot's gotten that opperation.)
I don't know PPC but I can tell you that my G3 iMac runs Ubuntu just fine. It might be something specific to your box. Try getting your hands on an Apple diagnostic CD.
In my experience, Linux, FreeBSD, and even NetBSD don't do so well on PowerPC. While I am not a fan of OpenBSD, it is the only one that ran extremely well on PowerPC. All the ports all compile and run properly...X runs properly...everything works well. There are a few gotchas but overall, you won't notice them.
If you're curious, I installed and configured OpenBSD on an iMac G4.
NOTE: I do NOT recommend OpenBSD for the faint of heart.
OpenBSD's a megabitch.