hi my powermac g4's graphics are really slow and need to know what to do to fix it, and be able to play minecraft, I dont what type of powermac g4 i have though, Please Answer ASAP!!!!

I cannot help you without knowing what machine you have.

Your question is like "My engine stopped working, I have no idea what car I have, and I want to take it drag racing. Please answer ASAP!!!!"

I put my serial number and this is my model http://everymac.com/systems/apple/power ... p_mdd.html

I need the CPU speed and the graphics card model please. The card will either be a Nvidia GeForce4 MX or an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro.

Also, please give me the output of :

You may need to run the following command first to install glxinfo:



If you have a working Mac OS X installation, you can click the apple in the upper left and hit "About this Mac".

its 1GHZ and its a ATI Radeon 9000 PRO

OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.3
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
OpenGL extensions:

frankie@Server:~$ sudo apt-get install mesa-utils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
mesa-utils is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Im going to try lubuntu and tell you how it works.

Are you using a xorg.conf? (Located within /etc/X11)

I Tried lubuntu and so far is working good, Graphics seem fine ( For now ) Ill go back to mintppc when I have faster internet connection Because I accedentally formated my hd