On Tue, Apr 22 2008, at 10:23 -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > I switched back to etch on this laptop and everything worked like > magic. > > So right now I am back to running etch on this machine, which is > great. I just had to recompile a lot of the software that I needed > (claws mail 3.4.0, pidgin, etc.) but it didn't take too long since I > knew what I was doing and which libraries to install.
Ever having considered to install sid/unstable? Most of the time it works like a charm on ab old titanium here: ****** processor : 0 cpu : 7455, altivec supported clock : 667.000000MHz revision : 0.2 (pvr 8001 0302) bogomips : 66.56 timebase : 33331438 platform : PowerMac machine : PowerBook3,5 motherboard : PowerBook3,5 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh detected as : 80 (PowerBook Titanium IV) pmac flags : 0000001b L2 cache : 256K unified pmac-generation : NewWorld ***** Graphics hardware: 0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] (rev 01) ***** I don't know which "Powerbook G4 Titanium 500MHz" you have, but the one from cpuinfo, etc., above (maxm. 867 MHz), is having Debian/unstable on it since a very long time with few software problems, IIRC, over the last 2 or 3 years. There are problems from time to time ("unstable", sic!), sure enough, but most of them not difficult enough that even a lazybones like me would not be able find some solution to solve them ... :) HTH Best Regards Wolfgang -- http://heelsbroke.blogspot.com/ http://keyserver.mine.nu/pks/lookup?search=0xE3037113&fingerprint=on -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]