8.04 On Quicksilver !

**woopud** · April 27th, 2008

Just installed Ubuntu 8.04 on my Quicksilver 733, I used the alternate cd which worked flawless !

Bert

**stream303** · April 27th, 2008

Yes! I took a look at your specs at

http://www.everymac.com/systems/appl...wermac-g4.html

and it seems you have an nvidia card. Second success story I've heard today without too much to do if you have nvidia. Seems the ati cards need just a bit more tlc to get running.

Are you running an lcd monitor?

**oswaldkelso** · April 27th, 2008

Originally Posted by stream303

. Seems the ati cards need just a bit more tlc to get running.

it worked on my digital audio with ati 9800 pro fine Second time? The joys of older hardware

**stream303** · April 27th, 2008

Whoa! You mean no additional kernel parameters at boot? That's great news.

**woopud** · April 28th, 2008

Originally Posted by stream303

Whoa! You mean no additional kernel parameters at boot? That's great news.

Nope, just use the alternate CD and type "install", that's all.

**stream303** · April 28th, 2008

That's great news. Along with the nvidia card, if you are using an lcd monitor, you may want to see if dithering gives you a better image, especially if you look at small fonts or graphics details.

Depending on your eyesight and monitor quality, this may not do anything for you, but it sure does on my 20" iMac screen - while it is large, it is not Cinema Display quality.

I just added the FPDither option in my xorg.conf:

Code:

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
        BusID           "PCI:240:16:0"
        Option          "FPDither" "true"
EndSection

If your monitor is very high quality, or it just doesn't seem to make a difference, no need for it, but it makes a big difference on mine, whether it is ppc or not. Any box running the standard nv driver with lcd seems to look better to me with this.

**woopud** · April 28th, 2008

Originally Posted by stream303

That's great news. Along with the nvidia card, if you are using an lcd monitor, you may want to see if dithering gives you a better image, especially if you look at small fonts or graphics details.

Depending on your eyesight and monitor quality, this may not do anything for you, but it sure does on my 20" iMac screen - while it is large, it is not Cinema Display quality.

I just added the FPDither option in my xorg.conf:

Code:

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
        BusID           "PCI:240:16:0"
        Option          "FPDither" "true"
EndSection

If your monitor is very high quality, or it just doesn't seem to make a difference, no need for it, but it makes a big difference on mine, whether it is ppc or not. Any box running the standard nv driver with lcd seems to look better to me with this.

I have an 21" Sony triniton Monitor with a resulution of 1920x1440, picture is very sharp.

Bert