So New I have an Umbillical Cord

[Markus Deistler]

On 22.02.2003 3:45 Uhr  Nick wrote:

> Is the general consensus then that an upgraded 9600 to G3 (200/300mhz)
> with a 4gb hard drive and 96mb won't run it at all except on a command
> line basis?

If you would like to get beyond the command line you'll need a working
Xserver. Keep in mind: You will never get far on Linux/Unix without being
very familiar with the command line, even if you run nice desktops like KDE=
,
which has all sorts of configuration utilities  ...

YDL unfortunately just installs "XFree86-4.2.0" as an Xserver, which doesn'=
t
support old Powermac's video hardware very well (very often slooooooooow
16-bit-color or even 8bit-color is all you'll get though you have 4MB VRAM
for 24bit-color-video in MacOS, and quite a few old ATI cards don't work in
acclerated mode at all with XF4.0.2 and really require "Xpmac", another
Xserver that isn't part of the newer YDL-distros anymore but can be ftped
from YDL's ftpsite).

What kind of video hardware does your box use? Third party PCI-card, or
onboard-video?=20

Markus

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