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hey i would be willing to try stuff on my powerpc imac g3 i cant really use it for much in all honesty and i am trying to learn more about the coding and infrastructure of ubuntu

also to rsavage i...

so i put it to the 800 600 resolution but it didn't do anything

so i did sudo ddcprobe and that gave me the output i wanted but when i went into xorg.conf the refresh rates where the same so i dont know what to do on that path

for modelines i don't know what i...

i tried the ddcprobe command from the lubuntu instructions to change the frequency rates but it came up with this error

Framebuffer ioctl failed. Exiting.
VESA BIOS Extensions not detected.

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so i set DefaultDepth to 16 because of no 1024x768 but that froze my computer up

also the adding of those two lines froze my computer had to go into single user mode with each to get rid of them
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i forgot to say that the dri looks like it is found now

second i cant find where to change the preferredmode line in the xorg.conf file in the lubuntu instructions but i dont know if i need that
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also in initramfs-tools/modules i had already added r128 before so i dont know what to do
here is the Xorg.0.log just for the fun of it

[ 39.672]
X.Org X Server 1.10.4
Release Date:...

lspci output

0000:00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth AGP
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 16
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use:...

33.507]
X.Org X Server 1.10.4
Release Date: 2011-08-19
[ 33.507] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[ 33.507] Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.35-30-powerpc64-smp ppc Ubuntu
[ 33.507]...

first off i had to have firefox open to copy and paste into the post

second the reason i didnt get the whole is that it wasnt scrollable and so i dont know how to copy it and post it here can you...

looked up on the internet where the Xorg.0.log file is and i found so here it is

[ 33.507]
X.Org X Server 1.10.4
Release Date: 2011-08-19
[ 33.507] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[ ...

adminubuntu@iMacUbuntu:~$ glxinfo
name of display: :0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
server glx extensions:
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for the first output i get yes
the second is Software Rasterizer and approx. 25 FPS then 28 and 29 eventually it declines to around 16 and goes up to 28 again

it worked after changing everything...

worked after noint10 this time so im happy also is there any cleaning up i need to do/can do to make startup time faster or is my computer so old it just wont go faster

secondly how can i...

i tried the framebuffer=false option and the framebuffer was bypassed but it still ran to cli

then i added the noint10 line since i couldn't find it so i thought that would be good except now it...

oh also i dont see the noint10 in my xorg.conf file so i dont know what to do to edit that if the framebuffer fix doesn't work

couple of questions

first how do i set useFBdev to false i am going to try putting false in the bool parantheses but i don't know if i need to uncomment the line

second how can i send the...

ok so this is new to ubutnu and i am having a similar problem

i tried to do the Linux video= fixes but when entering them in the Linux video=offb:off caused the white screen to freeze up

in your article there is a place for no gui just a blank screen which i dont have i have a cli environment

also where should we go for new thread about gui thanks

ok i had only added pata_macio, modprobe pata_macio, modprobe pata_macio and on the next line exit but when i went back to just pata_macio it worked so thank you rsavage for the help

one more...

Ok so I reinstalled then updated to 11.10 again same error and I did exactly what you said with adding the modprobe pata_macio line to the initramfs file and I confirmed it with the update line and I...

i had made the changes to the root= parameter and modprobe pata_macio and that didn't do anything also i had upgraded from 11.04 to 11.10 so i think doing changing the yabootconfig with sudo nano to...

i used sudo yabootconfig -r /dev/sdb because the external hard drive was sda and nothing else looked like a drive and i confirmed to writing a yaboot.conf file on there or something and when i...

for the gui i think i used your article on how to install lubuntu on ppc at this website http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11020435&postcount=1
so i should have the gui after the code there
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i got past the busybox error with the pata_macio command with ctrl+d
but now i have a different problem it was supposed to boot to gui but it just went to cli and it wont let me change the yaboot...