Hello there,

I have spent a couple of hours on these forums, and I thought I was doing well when my eMac computer set everything up really fast and smooth, until I had a couple of the issues that a few others have had here. My computer specs are here:

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/emac/stats/emac_700.html

It's 700/512/17 inch/Combo Drive

Everything sets up fine using the 200+ MB file, ethernet connects and downloads even, and I can get into X11, but it's 256 colors I think, and I have the same "window drifting down off the screen" as a few others have reported. I tried looking on the mac.linux.be site for my specific configuration, but I got a couple of the txt files and tried them, and ended up getting a black screen on my mac. If I let the computer sit for a while and go to sleep at the login screen (GUI) I can hit the space bar, and catch a glimpse of the really nice, multi thousand at least, display, and then it blinks back to black an instant later.

I know Wonblows inside and out, and got REALLY tired of it, and someone finally talked me into trying a Mac. I am REALLY ignorant when it comes to Linux, and just recently (within the last 2 years) got rid of all my Winblows PCs and switched to a 24 inch iMac at home, and 21.5 at work, with iDevices (2 iPads) to compliment them. I purchased the eMac for 35 bucks, but I want to toy with Linux, frankly because I think it will run faster on the old hardware, and I want the experience networking it.

I would really appreciate it if someone could talk to me like I'm a 4 year old and point me in the right direction (step by step) to get the file and "mv" it into place so my machine will display more than 256 colors. I succeeded to get myself added to sudoers, and I know how to use nano thanks to this forum. That's the extent of it. It would be really helpful for my learning experience if you could tell me why each step is being taken too, so I understand the process.

Thanks a ton in advance.

ok, try this one:
http://mac.linux.be/files/xorg/emac6.txt

boot up into single user mode, at the yaboot prompt type:

then give your root password and do:

CTRL-D to resume booting
then see if X works well, if not, go to a tty (CTRL-ALT-F1 for example) and login as root
root
root password
then try to get the output of the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log

without the log file I can't help you

That one worked like a charm, thanks. I also did the apt-install xorg because I saw others here saying theirs wasn't installed by default, just to be safe.

Oh, and I didn't boot into single user mode. I just logged in as su, and downloaded the file and moved it into place. Everything works great for me and a test user I set up. Even Gnome is looking smooth.

I was also able to run remote desktop from my Mac, and login to the eMac running Mint. Screenshot attached. Everything working great. Sound, video, perfect.

You logged into a standard lxde session. Try mint-lxde instead.

Yeah I tried a few of them... just messing around at this point.

Thanks !!!!

I follow this instructions and my Emac G4 700mHz and 384 Mb memory
is flying

Thanks !!!!

I am working with 1024x768 and 16k colors !!!!!!