tekwerx Posted February 23, 2004 Report Share Posted February 23, 2004 Ok, I have installed different flavors of Linux on PC's a few times, enough to kind of know what I'm doing (still pretty much a newbie, in other words). Recently though, I switched to Macs foor the power...ok, and the looks. B) Anyhow, I wanted to install Mandrake 9.1 PPC on my old Beige G3, except I find out its too old. So I go out and buy a new iBook G4 933, except to find out its too new, and Mandrake doesnt know the vidcard, I believe. Ive tried all the different options I can think of for the installer, only to get garbled junk when the GUI comes up. I was wondering if anyone had found a fix for this that I dont know of, or if I'm just gonna have to be patient for a few more months when updated versions start getting released. Thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted February 23, 2004 Report Share Posted February 23, 2004 What video chipset is in your iBook? It might be that you just need to install the drivers for it to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tekwerx Posted February 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2004 ATI Radeon Mobility 9200. Ive found tons of sites that tell how YDL, Mandrake, SuSE and others wont work with the iBooks with this card in it, yet...but no solutions...grr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tekwerx Posted February 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2004 *bump* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tekwerx Posted February 25, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2004 *another bump* Need some help...please...even if MDK doesnt work with the new cards, or nobody knows of any fixes, maybe someone can tell me about a distro that does... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fissy Posted February 26, 2004 Report Share Posted February 26, 2004 silly question, can you not do a text install? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tekwerx Posted February 26, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2004 Not a silly question. Yes, I can. Do I understand what I am doing? Nope...if I were on a PC, yeah, NP. Since I'm on a Mac now though, I dont know what works where when. LoL So I'm pretty stuck till then... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fissy Posted February 26, 2004 Report Share Posted February 26, 2004 damn, perhaps if you're getting stuck on a particular point you could ask here? theres a chance someone will know, you're probably not the only mac user on the boards :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tekwerx Posted February 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2004 No particular point, its the whole install. X is completely jumbled up when the GUI installer comes up. Ive done a lot of searching, and found that theres no "good" drivers for the ATI Radeon Mobility 9200 in the G4 iBook yet. No workarounds yet either. Since PPC flavors are on the back burners, I dont think that there will be any for a little while. Eh, well. I'll just just have to find an old PC and use it I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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