PowerMac G4 17" and YDL 3.0.1 and 3.0 problems

[Pierre Jomain]

I'm not really up to date ... but I think 2 months before or maybe more  
the thermal management was not good as you can see on this page :  
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/hardware/breakdown/index.php? 
hw_cat_id=4
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Pierre-Olivier Jomain
mailto:pojomain@free.fr


On Jan 9, 2004, at 12:59 PM, Jeroen Zwartepoorte wrote:

> What are you basing this on? I'm typing this on my powerbook 17" in
> evolution under YDL 3.0.1, and powermanagement works fine.
>
> Which powerbook do you have btw? The one with an NVidia graphics card  
> or
> the one with the ATI card? The former works fine with YDL 3.0.1. The
> latter doesn't work with any available YDL ISOs. You have to build your
> own 2.6 kernel to get the console working without bugs, and then you
> have to build your own XFree86 since the one shipped with YDL 3.0.1
> doesn't support the radeon card properly (crashes when run with 2d
> acceleration).
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeroen
>
> On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 11:51, Pierre Jomain wrote:
>> I think it's not a good idea to install YDL on you're PowerBook,
>> because YDl doesn't supply power management for this computer
>> ___________________
>> Pierre-Olivier Jomain
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>>
>>
>> On Jan 9, 2004, at 10:52 AM, Devaney Michael wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>   Ive got a new PowerBook G4 17" and I want to use YDL on it.  I got
>>> the
>>> ISOs for version 3.0 and the install seemed to go on fine (albeit in
>>> textual
>>> mode - not graphical) until the reboot, where my powerbook booted
>>> straight
>>> into MacOS X - yaboot didnt seem to install or work or whatever. So
>>> Question
>>> 1 is what they heck is the problem?  Do I have to press or hold some
>>> keys to
>>> get yaboot to work with YDL 3.0?
>>>
>>> Anyway, I couldnt work out why it wouldnt work, so I downloaded the  
>>> YDL
>>> 3.0.1 ISOs and tried again.  This time YDL installed fine and yaboot
>>> worked
>>> too - BUT the screen was all horribly flickery and i was getting text
>>> shadows all over the screen.  It was flickery all the way through
>>> installation, and also at command prompts and in X.  So Question 2  
>>> is,
>>> why
>>> does it do this? And how do I fix it?  I didnt get any flickering  
>>> when
>>> I
>>> tried to install YDL 3.0, what has changed that makes my screen
>>> flicker? :(
>>>
>>> This link describes a bit more of the problem
>>> http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2003-
>>> Novembe
>>> r/010748.html
>>>
>>> Please help chaps,  I havent found much on this problem on the web at
>>> all.
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>>   Mike.
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