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Doctor J.
January 11th, 2009, 02:39 PM
I accidently wiped the drive on my trusty PowerBook and when i went to reinstall the Feisty side of things i came to realize the enormity of my mistake: all the repositories are gone due to no longer being supported. I'm not going to reinstall Hardy: i've already had my fill of frustration trying to get that beast to do simple things like recognize my Bluetooth mouse or take KDE online via wifi [things that i was able to in Feisty].

So before i try out debian or fedora, how is Intrepid handling these tasks. And will it be able to put the nVidia GeForce FX Go5200 display to sleep?

mkvnmtr
January 11th, 2009, 03:35 PM
I am having good luck with 8.04 on my G4 Ibook. There are several that I have read are using 8.10.There are a few work arounds to get installed but nothing to complicated.