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by Steven Didier
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I had the very same problems with versions 5-7. I would end up
tweaking the Xorg config file each time I upgraded. That was not the
case in the latest Jaunty 9.04 it installed without a hitch and my
graphics chip is the ATI mobility 900.
If you haven't tried the latest release I'd suggest that you download
it and give it a try again. As another option Yellow Dog Linux, based
on Fedora, is compiled for ppc, Sony Playstation (it has the motorola
ppc processor) may work for you
Good luck,
SteveD
On May 25, 2009, at 6:31 PM, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> Steven Didier wrote:
>> I moved away from Open Suse also, I now run Ubuntu 9.04 (I've been
>> using Ubuntu on my TiBook for a couple years now) This version works
>> very well for everything except the usb image creator tool (it is an
>> i-386-586 specific tool as syslinux hasn't been ported to ppc).
>> Java,
>> the app and JRE work as does flash.
>> Cheers, SteveD
>
> Thanks for the input. I spent 2 day trying to install Ubuntu on
> iBook G4
> and turn to opensuse after everything I can do failed. The main
> problem
> being X, no matter how I tweak or try to compile a driver for my ATI
> Radeon Mobility card, starting X server always puts the notebook to
> black screen where the only thing can do is to login to the notebook
> through SSH and shut down the host (killing X server wouldn't get
> console back). I'd love to use Ubuntu if I could, because I had
> switched
> from OpenSuSE to Ubuntu 3 years ago and liked it for its lack of
> problems e.g. occasionally not able to print (which happens in
> OpenSUSE), slowness on starting "Computer" menu (now better in 11.1),
> defaulting to banshee which I hate (where ubuntu default tools for
> multi
> media works better) and having to struggle on package management to
> figure out how to install VLC etc (where Ubuntu have them 2 clicks
> away).
>
> Now switching back to OpenSuSE I have found a few new problem that
> wasn't there 3 years ago, e.g. GIMP doesn't print (most other
> application prints, even 2/3 times fail 1/3 time works, but GIMP
> always
> fail). However it do fixed some major problem that existed 3 years
> ago,
> e.g. huge (and growing amount of) memory consumed by the start menu
> replacement (where Ubuntu have simple start menu).
>
> I cannot help but feeling Ubuntu is for use, while OpenSUSE sells
> because it have several "advantages" like nicer beagle integration,
> wired start menu (now I think it is a bit more useful than Ubuntu's
> because of "favorites"), XEN integration, Mono and its applications
> like
> banshee. When you want to buy an OS, you may consider which have
> advantages, but when you actually use an OS, these special OpenSUSE
> advantages helps little in my daily business, while stability and less
> number of problems counts.
>
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tweaking the Xorg config file each time I upgraded. That was not the
case in the latest Jaunty 9.04 it installed without a hitch and my
graphics chip is the ATI mobility 900.
If you haven't tried the latest release I'd suggest that you download
it and give it a try again. As another option Yellow Dog Linux, based
on Fedora, is compiled for ppc, Sony Playstation (it has the motorola
ppc processor) may work for you
Good luck,
SteveD
On May 25, 2009, at 6:31 PM, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> Steven Didier wrote:
>> I moved away from Open Suse also, I now run Ubuntu 9.04 (I've been
>> using Ubuntu on my TiBook for a couple years now) This version works
>> very well for everything except the usb image creator tool (it is an
>> i-386-586 specific tool as syslinux hasn't been ported to ppc).
>> Java,
>> the app and JRE work as does flash.
>> Cheers, SteveD
>
> Thanks for the input. I spent 2 day trying to install Ubuntu on
> iBook G4
> and turn to opensuse after everything I can do failed. The main
> problem
> being X, no matter how I tweak or try to compile a driver for my ATI
> Radeon Mobility card, starting X server always puts the notebook to
> black screen where the only thing can do is to login to the notebook
> through SSH and shut down the host (killing X server wouldn't get
> console back). I'd love to use Ubuntu if I could, because I had
> switched
> from OpenSuSE to Ubuntu 3 years ago and liked it for its lack of
> problems e.g. occasionally not able to print (which happens in
> OpenSUSE), slowness on starting "Computer" menu (now better in 11.1),
> defaulting to banshee which I hate (where ubuntu default tools for
> multi
> media works better) and having to struggle on package management to
> figure out how to install VLC etc (where Ubuntu have them 2 clicks
> away).
>
> Now switching back to OpenSuSE I have found a few new problem that
> wasn't there 3 years ago, e.g. GIMP doesn't print (most other
> application prints, even 2/3 times fail 1/3 time works, but GIMP
> always
> fail). However it do fixed some major problem that existed 3 years
> ago,
> e.g. huge (and growing amount of) memory consumed by the start menu
> replacement (where Ubuntu have simple start menu).
>
> I cannot help but feeling Ubuntu is for use, while OpenSUSE sells
> because it have several "advantages" like nicer beagle integration,
> wired start menu (now I think it is a bit more useful than Ubuntu's
> because of "favorites"), XEN integration, Mono and its applications
> like
> banshee. When you want to buy an OS, you may consider which have
> advantages, but when you actually use an OS, these special OpenSUSE
> advantages helps little in my daily business, while stability and less
> number of problems counts.
>
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