__ On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Raymond Rehayem <[email protected]>wrote:
> Matthew Sorry for your ongoing troubles. Like I said I'm a linux newbie > and have exhausted my know-how on this problem. > I'll be honest- I installed linux (starting with Fedora, then trying > Debian, Opensuse, community Ubuntu jaunty…) on my iMac to see if I'd be > comfortable running Linux on a cheap pc laptop (the Compaq I bought) at > first I was amazed it worked and frustrated with screen problem. All the > help I found in the forums from Richard and others really impressed upon me > the sense of community among Linux users and I felt very comfortable getting > a PC laptop and not having to splurge on a Mac laptop. I started with Fedora > on my laptop - but the constant troubleshooting convinced me Fedora is > really not for a casual user like myself and I switched to Mint which > overall Im very happy with. > > In the meantime, between Fedora 10 & 11 and also with various things in > Suse and Ubuntu not working (at one point I had successfully setup a > quarduple boot with Mac OS Tiger, Ubuntu 9.04, OpenSuse, and Fedora 11 all > running on my ppc G5!) I started to feel that a basic working powerPC linux > OS was too difficult for me to maintain (I kept having trouble with media > files, even open source FLACS and OGGS playback in Fedora and OpenSuse, > couldn't RIP/Encode in Ubuntu; GNASH failed to play most FLASH content and > there's no FLASH from Adobe for PPC linux, etc) > > I'm not a developer. I'm just a desktop user (writer, artist, web / email > user, etc) wanting a working desktop and very attracted to open source > idea/l . However, in the short time I've been using linux, the already > dwindling support for PowerPC has shrunk further, and more directly I > finally accepted that everything I need to do worked better in Tiger (I'll > never pay to upgrade my 5 year old iMac to Leopard) and so just recently > removed all Linux partitions from my iMac. > > That being said, just the other night for some reason I was thinking of > installing whatever next version of Linuc for PPC update comes along (not > Fedora though, I think since 11 came out it seems my PPC install just wasn't > working right) > > and, I must add- on my laptop I bought in April I almost never boot into > Windows. I used to rarely sometimes when running Fedora 10; after a certain > Fedora 11 update my display wouldn't work so I switched to Mint and I love > using Linux compared to Windows on a PC (I've always disliked Microsoft > products- functionality and design). But on my PowerPC, I think I'm > sticking with an old Apple OS till the thing just stops working. However, it > looks like OpenSuse (which I believe the open source community has some > understandable issues with due to some Novell-Microsoft dealing) will still > be releasing their upcoming OS for PPC and also perhaps the recently release > Ubuntu will be ported to PPC by the community and resolve this display > problem) > > Sorry to be a naysayer, but my experience and hate to say is that if you > want on OS that 'just works' on your old iMac (same model I have) the only > thing know of is OSX. If you really want to get into Linux, maybe someday > pick up a cheap PC to play with. > > RAy > > > > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Matthew <[email protected]> wrote: > >> sorry to repost...the display is centered and looks great. The problem >> of the flickering screen ( dashes appearing rapidly) is not a major >> problem but is annoying so would be grateful if someone can help. It >> seems to appear after about 20 mins and if i switch off leave for a time >> it disappears on reboot. >> >> -- >> [Hardy-Alpha 4 PPC] Screen resolution correct but shifted to the right >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/189844 >> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber >> of the bug. >> >> Status in X.Org X server: In Progress >> Status in “xserver-xorg-video-nv” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed >> >> Bug description: >> On my PPC G5 iMac 20" built-in display with Hardy-Alpha 4, using the >> standard NV driver, the resolution of 1680x1050 is detected correctly but is >> shifted to the right by about 1/2 inch, which continues back to the left >> hand side. In other words, the trash can and quit icons are mostly cut off >> on the right, and appear on the left! >> >> Unfortunately, the mouse won't go past a boundary on the left hand side to >> access them, even if I did want to live with the display shifted like this. >> This issue first appeared for me in Gutsy as well, and nothing seems to be >> able to move the display back to the left a little. I have tried xrandr, >> xvidtune, custom modelines, etc. Only Feisty and below have the 1680x1050 >> screen centered properly. With an Imac, there are no manual screen movement >> adjustments that can be made. It feels as though something is locking out >> any attempt to center the screen, since the resolution seems correct. >> >> Interestingly enough, if I take a screen-shot and view it, the screen-shot >> looks perfect, but isn't centered properly in real life. I've tried the >> usual dkpg-reconfigure routines, but it's not that the resolution is >> incorrect, it is just that the screen want to dive over to the right and >> wrap back to the left.... >> >> [lspci] >> 0000:f0:10.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV34M >> [GeForce FX Go5200] [10de:0329] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) >> Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device [10de:0010] >> >> > -- [Hardy-Alpha 4 PPC] Screen resolution correct but shifted to the right https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/189844 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
