Ubuntu on PowerBook 17'' Rev A

[Mikel]

Hey guys! I just finished installing Ubuntu last night, I had always used Debian on my PowerBook along with Panther, but I somewhat got sick of it, plus some things werent working fine and I couldnt be bothered to look around to fix them, so I donwloaded Ubuntu and since the same partition tree works I just went ahead with the installation. Everything went fine till it asked me to log in, thats when it supposedly loads the gdm and all that, well, as I had expected, nothing popped up, just an "x" cursor that showed up for like 2 seconds and a drums noise, but nothing after that, just a black screen. I kinda expected this to happen cuz I remember configuring some file in order to get Debian to work with this graphics card, at its default resolution and all that. I recall having to edit the file from the command line, but here in Ubuntu i'm a little lost, plus I dont even know what the right configuration for that file would be. So yeah any help guys would be extremely appreciated! Ubuntu seems like a very nice distro and I cannot wait to get my hands on it. Thanks again and thanks for reading my long post. ;-)

[Mikel]

I've even tried opening a text terminal while it boots but i didnt get it to work, some dude told me control alt f4 would work, that way i'd just modify xf86config-4 so that the xserver could work, but unfortunately it didnt work since it wouldnt let me access the text mode terminal that every linux system has, any ideas? :?

[TekMate]

On a Mac you have to hold down ctrl then hit the fn key to use alt then one of the f keys. SO it would be ctrl+fn+alt+f1

[Mikel]

Well, thanks for the help, I did manage to access a terminal window from where I edited my XF86Config-4 file with my old configuration for Debian. Unfortunately it did not work, its starting to get pretty annoying, I'm so dying to get Linux back on my PowerBook. Anyone got any clue of what exactly should the XF86Config-4 be like? Or could it just be something else? Keep in mind this is a Revision A PowerBook 17-inch, with an Nvidia chip. Thanks :-)