Hi again,
Well, since I e-mailed the list, I have tried a number of different
distros and spent a lot of hours of hard work in trying to get Linux
to work on my G5. As I am a pragmatist at heart, I have come back to
YDL 4.0.1 as it seems of all of the distros I have tried to work best
on my machine. Even though I have a thing for .deb based distros, I
am basically a pragmatist at heart and since YDL works best for me,
that is where I will concentrate my effort on getting things sorted
out. Maybe I can be convinced to love an .rpm based system as well.
Who knows? Time will tell.
Anyway, there are a number of issues like no sound, kudzo prompting
to remove and add drivers that appear to be the same, windfarm
problems, etc. The first thing I would like to do is since I just did
a default install, except for Danish language support, I would like
to try to get everything on the system updated to the latest of
everything that is available for 4.0.1 and is a "stock" version (i.e.
the same branch that is used in YDL) to see if that will help some of
the problems. Unfortunately, I don't know anything about yum or the
commands or if there is a graphic front end. As my fans are revving
so much, I don't dare be using YDL for very long at a time, so I
don't have a lot of time to do newbie picking around like I would
otherwise do. Here is what my system looks like:
Hardware Overview:
Machine Name: Power Mac G5
Machine Model: PowerMac9,1
CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (3.0)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 1.8 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 600 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.2.2f2
As I said above, I am a newbie (more or less, so any help will be
appreciated.
Cheers,
Brian
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