namaui
June 20th, 2007, 07:11 PM
Hi, I just got Ubuntu 5.10 up and running on an old Beige G3 of mine, and I've ran into a couple of deal breaking snags along the way.
I've been trying to move away from installing OS X on this machine for a number of reasons, most of them being speed issues. So after setting up BootX and installing Ubuntu 5.10 on it, I grabbed a kernel and ramdisk image from the wiki somewhere and got up to teh ubuntu desktop. Everything is running smoothly except for a few small issues that are keeping me from using it full time.
The first issue is that I cannot see an ethernet card anywhere in the network settings. Ive tried looking for help, but i can find a thread about it or anything on the web. Also there is no sound, but if I cant get that working, I dont mind too much. And I also cant get a higher resolution than 800x600. Its been a while since ive played around with ubuntu, and linux overall, and I now theres something calle x.conf, but i dont know how to configure or access that. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
I've been trying to move away from installing OS X on this machine for a number of reasons, most of them being speed issues. So after setting up BootX and installing Ubuntu 5.10 on it, I grabbed a kernel and ramdisk image from the wiki somewhere and got up to teh ubuntu desktop. Everything is running smoothly except for a few small issues that are keeping me from using it full time.
The first issue is that I cannot see an ethernet card anywhere in the network settings. Ive tried looking for help, but i can find a thread about it or anything on the web. Also there is no sound, but if I cant get that working, I dont mind too much. And I also cant get a higher resolution than 800x600. Its been a while since ive played around with ubuntu, and linux overall, and I now theres something calle x.conf, but i dont know how to configure or access that. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.