Hi All!

So I just did an install on my iMac G5. This is the closest to working build I have gotten yet. Ubuntu 12.04 was giving me a lot of grief. However, when it boots up, the bottom half of the background is all black. However, I can still click and see the Mint menu on the bottom... In fact, I can boot up most apps.

When I launch the web browser, I can browse sites just fine, but there seems to be some graphical glitches, mostly concentrated in the lower half of the screen. And... if I scroll up, those graphical glitches seem to follow the page up.

Anyone have any ideas of how to fix this? Could it be an xorg.conf issue? I really appreciate any help i can get - excited to get this old beast up and running with a useful distro!

it looks like you have the same iMac G5 as I do. To fix your glitches, see this thread:
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=618

If you need more help, let me know. Enjoy the best Linux distro for PPC !

I appreciate the link - I've checked through, and it looks like you went back and forth with nouveau... I'm not sure what the final result is. Did you use the xorg.conf file? And where did you put it? In /etc/X11/ ?

Let me know! I'd love to get this thing fully up and running!

well, depends what you find more important. I use the computer mainly for surfing the internet, listen to music and so on. If that is your goal, go for nv. If you want to play DVD, you have to stick with nouveau. Tell me what you want and I will help you.

I don't care about DVDs... I just want to be able to use it as an internet browsing machine!

Sigh... Okay... I need some help here. I thought that maybe Ubuntu would just have the issue fixed. I tried Ubuntu, and it had the same issue. So now I just restarted with a fresh boot of MintPPC, and I have the black bar along the bottom half of the screen. I'm really confused about how to set up an xorg file, or whether i'm supposed to do that, etc. Can someone help me out with what i'm supposed to do?

hungarianhc:

I don't know if you are looking for that command that will download the xorg.conf file for your computer or if you know that already. That quote is from my thread "fresh install Mint11 next to OSX 85% successful" . . . HOWEVER you would need to change the "imac8.txt" to whatever is the correct file for your computer, in both of the places it shows up. If you read through the link that JD provided you could see that he is back to using "nv" as the driver . . . . I also am using "nv" in my G4 . . . . This is from the top of my head but if you need to modify that file you enter "sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf" to open that file and make any changes that you want . . . and then when finished hit "CTRL X" and the "y" to save the changes . . . and that would be to make the changes that JD showed in his example of the xorg.conf file he is using in the linked thread . . . except it looks like he's back to using "nv" as the more stable option. So if you nano that file you would be either changing "nouveau" to "nv" and if you were going to "nv" you would have to "wget" that "xserver - - nv" driver and then run the "sudo apt install xserver . . . . nv" . . . . . Anyway, hopefully that will help you, the details are smudged in my mind, but you can find a lot of detailed instruction by searching here or check out the posts by "str8bs" because he seemed to thrash out the G5 problems to some level of satisfaction . . . .

e.e.p.

I replied here:
viewtopic.php?f=15&t=967