![]() Then I started to configure WLAN, which gave me the trouble I always had to manually reconnect to the network when rebooting. The repos do not work perfectly well for the PPC version so I removed the videolan repo but added packman but also the Gnome, OpenOfficeOrg and Mozilla repos from the list of community repos, not sure what sense it makes thoughįinding out vlan client did not work, I installed MPlayer but that only works smooth with the SMPlayer frontend, playing most formats I used as long. If someone finds a mistake please tell me.ĮndSectionAs the sound was very low only, I was using alsaconfig (like described here SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE which worked fine. Who changes the configuration of an old laptop anyhow? At the Section "Module" I added Load "dri" for general video acceleration hoping that this is correct The other important sections of my nf look like the following now. Yes sax2 will complain that this resolution will not work but I don't care about this. Changing my /etc/X11/nfig to the fbdev did the trick then. Later researching it i found out my video card is not supported by the ATI driver. Switching to a console (ctrl-alt-F1) and loggin in as root I found the video not working properly. ![]() I decided for Gnome for several reasons and one of them was performance, but how do they say? No recommendations.Īfter rebooting the configuration went through only to leave me with a black screen. So I had a partitioned hard disk that also would accept a boot loader and installing went on. After looking around here i found a how-to in here and following these steps PPC Partitioning - openSUSE did the trick. a dhcp server was present in the network i expected network setup to be automated for the first.įirst trouble I stumbled into was, that I was not able to setup partitions correctly as the bootloader would not have been installed on any partition so this would have left my PowerBook unbootable. I downloaded the DVD and plugged the ehternet cable in as i did not expect wlan to work flawless. I want to share all of that, maybe it helps someone on some similar hardware. Not all bells and whistles indeed as I use Gnome and not KDE for performance reasons and as my personal preference. Just finally made it to install openSUSE 11 PPC with all bells and whistles on a Apple PowerBook G4 with 667 MHz.
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