does the system live boot with video intact?
On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 2:43 PM, Jim Graham <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 11:01:44AM -0800, Luke Van Dervoort wrote: > > dude, sorry about the chemo. Mine went like a breeze this year. That > > chemical must be nasty. > > OT minute...sorry: Let's put it this way.... I was talking with my > oncologists' nurse practitioner one afternoon when I had an appointment > with them. We were talking about advancements (and my Cancer Research > Blogs site), and we got into chemo, then Cisplatin. I gave her my > description, (again, "100^% pure distilled evil in an IV bag." She just > looked at me and very flatly said, "Yeah, that's about right.") And now, > 10 years later since the worst chemo, I'm still seeing new issues because > of Cisplatin. Yeah, it's evil stuff. > > > Anyhow, here's a thought. Do you have a pc keyboard around somewhere? > > I'm thinking if you plug that in a long with the mac keyboard you might > > be able to switch to another tty to see what your doing. Tty is usual > > ctrl-alt-f1 through about f8 > > > Have you tried a later version of xubuntu? > > No, but I did try the latest version of Slackware, on the hopeful > assumption that, given that its install is text-based, that it MIGHT > work. It didn't. Oh well, a few minutes and one blank DVD-R spent > on what, if it had worked, would be a nice work-around. And just > for what it's worth, I also saw Tux (penguin Tux, not my cat, Tux) on > the Refit boot menu and on the screen for a few seconds before the > screen went black (and stayed for at least five minutes before I pulled > the cord to reboot into Mac OS X again). > > I'm not even sure if either has actually booted, or started to and quit. > I've thought of asking if someone could create an iso with the drivers > installed, but that's a LOT to ask, and I'm extremely hesitant to do so > (mentioning it is one thing, as I'm not expecting or asking anyone to > do so; actually asking is another, at least, IMHO). > > > I installed ubuntu on a mac mini about the same age, can't remember how I > > did it ... > > You may have had a different graphics card. Mac made that one of the > options, at least when I bought mine. If I'd known then what I'd be > going through now because of that choice..... > > I really hate the idea of just upgrading Mac OS X, because I didn't like > Apple's concept of a Unix variant or X11 from day one. I consider this > a major upgrade away from Apple and back home. I started out with Linux > back when Slackware wasn't born yet (only by a month or two), building > my own BSD-based Linux. But that was before cancer #1. But that's all > ancient history now thanks to cancer #1. > > Either way, thanks. And I know I've at least seen mention of people who > apparently got xubuntu working with the AMD Radeon 6630M, but that was > on Google, and the posts had either been moved or didn't exist anymore. > > Just to make sure...ubuntu and its variants do support the Intel I7 in > the AMD64 iso, right? > > On a related topic, does anyone know of any Linux variant that supports > my graphics card from the iso image? The plan with slackware, if it > worked, was to use it in text mode only, pull the drivers down via > Mac OS X from the Xorg driver modules page, and then fix up my own > distribution for xubuntu with the drivers installed. If I can just get > any Linux working in plain text mode, I should be able to do that. > > Thanks, > --jim > > -- > THE SCORE: ME: 2 CANCER: 0 > My freeware hurricane tracking system - https://jstrack.org/jstrack/ > 73 DE N5IAL (/4) ICBM/Hurr.: 30.439947N 86.635177W > > Saw something on TV about Psych-os. > Hmmmm, Psych OS. Perhaps the next freeware OS.... --me > > > -- > xubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ > mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users >
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