Still some issues

Post #192,306 by tjsinclair 1/30/05 9:47:49 PM Reply	Still some issues Debian PPC is nice and stable (no pun intended) but there are still a few nits: - It sees my FireWire CDRW drive, but k3b can't burn to it. (Apparently there's an issue with the 2.6 kernel.) - Video is still stuck at a max of 800x600, even though I know this card and monitor can do better. I'm still searching the mailing lists and usual suspects. (I found a note from our own Peter Whysall describing his own issues with a Rage 128 card. Unfortunately his solution won't work for me, if I understand correctly.) I've been playing with some other PPC discs: - Yellow Dog 4.0 - hangs at boot when trying to initialize my SCSI bus. - Knoppix PPC - Not updated since 2003, but I thought it might be worth trying. No go, doesn't correctly ID my video either. - Gentoo PPC - promising and I was going over the installation note when I suddenly remembered that I already had a job. (I'm sure Gentoo is fine for its intended audience and I've heard nothing but good things from those who use it.) Mandrake and the BSDs are something of a last resort for me at this point. I did notice, however, that Ubuntu has a PPC install ISO available. I've heard raves from those here and elsewhere who've tried and it's Debian-based to boot (once again, no pun intended) so I'm going to give it a try. Tom Sinclair "This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here." -- The Bursar is a man under a lot* of stress (Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies)
Post #192,308 by Another Scott 1/30/05 9:51:59 PM Reply	ICLRPD (new thread) Created as new thread #192307 titled [link\|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=192307\|ICLRPD]
Post #192,333 by folkert 1/31/05 12:50:28 AM Reply	Should Mention, Ubuntu PPC works as advertised I have given away quite a few pre-packaged ones. Install on the ones we tried. But were all laptop (ibook, powerbook etc...) -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* [link\|http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134485&cid=11233230\|"Microsoft Security" is an even better oxymoron than "Miltary Intelligence"] No matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link\|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp\|source]
Post #192,334 by tjsinclair 1/31/05 1:26:50 AM Reply	Having trouble with the Warty ISO I've downloaded copies from three separate sites, one through BitTorrent, the others with wget. When I try to burn a CD, I get a segmentation fault. I used both Disk Utility and the command line (hdiutil). The image seems to mount all right, though. Tom Sinclair "This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here." -- The Bursar is a man under a lot of stress (Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies)
Post #192,442 by pwhysall 2/1/05 5:27:06 AM Reply	Re: Having trouble with the Warty ISO Known problem Apologies for brief answer, am on 28.8K dialup :-O [link\|http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:iOwHNwPMiaUJ:www.intencha.com/adrian/burning_ubuntu_linux_iso_on_os_x.php+ubuntu+iso+ppc&hl=en\|http://64.233.183.10...ntu+iso+ppc&hl=en] Peter [link\|http://www.ubuntulinux.org\|Ubuntu Linux] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
Post #192,468 by tjsinclair 2/1/05 9:35:34 AM Reply	Thanks for the link I'll give that a shot today. Tom Sinclair "This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here." -- The Bursar is a man under a lot of stress (Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies)

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