2009/5/17 Christopher Sawtell <csawt...@gmail.com>: >> My Kubuntu PPC 8.10 -> 9.04 upgrade locked me out of my Mac G4. > > Have you any idea why?
I did not investigate. I only use it to check email and browse the web, and OS X is still on it, so it is not something I want to spend much time on, no data I need to save. I would get a KDE login screen but could not login. Also the screen locks and slowly goes white when I try to switch to another console, or log into a text session. > > I am very interested to hear this because it is quite a possibility > that I will be asked to install a KDE based application on a PPC Mac > portable. This is a PowerBook Ti 500 - and it seems to differ from other PowerBook Ti's - most posts on the Ubuntu PPC forum about PB Ti's refer to different video cards and some other hardware. Installing was a pain - mainly because of the graphics. I had to install a text system then install X and KDE (using the alternate CD). Should not have set it up to boot into a graphical login. I never got suspend to disk to work correctly. I would check for problems with the specific hardware. I always thought that there was not that much variation with Macs - not as much as there is in the x86 world, anyway - but there seems to be more than I thought. You should really ask if it is worth it. I have been trying 9.04 - and as soon as I work out one problem, I hit another one. Can't find the CD I booted off - can't find repositories - can download but not install software ... etc All similar - but not quite the same as 8.10 :-( > > -- > Sincerely etc. > Christopher Sawtell >
