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.
>
>
>
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