it was indeed a really new tibook, just bought it a month ago. that sounds like my problem, but it seems that the only distro with a feasable solution is yellow dog, so i'm going with them for now, thanks for everybody's trouble.
On Wednesday, February 13, 2002, at 09:38 AM, isaac wrote: > Is that a *really new* TiBook? I think that the newest ones have a video > card that didn't exist when MDK 8.0/PPC was released, so that would > surely keep X from starting up (no compatible driver). I think I saw > some discussion of problems with it (is it "radeon"?) recently around > the release of XF86-4.1 for PPC. > > SuSE 7.3 or the latest YDL might cover that card, but if you really want > MDK, you'll probably have to wait for 8.1 on that machine. > > I got it working (with some difficulty) on an older TiBook. > > -isaac > > > On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 00:56, Omnus Necromancy wrote: >> trying over the last several days to get linux working on my new >> powerbook titanium g4 computer and have eventually concluded defeat. > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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