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**sopranojam85** · Jan 21, 2010, 09:01 AM

Re: Installing Breezy Badger on PowerBook 3400c

Well I tried once more, this time using BootX 1.2.2 instead of 1.1.3.

I now persistently see the first set of shell lines when I try booting Linux, and my system powers down. I am not sure what gives. I seem to have digressed.

If anyone has ever experienced this, I would really appreciate it.

**sopranojam85** · Jan 21, 2010, 09:14 AM

Re: Installing Breezy Badger on PowerBook 3400c

Progress! I un-checked "force video drivers" and upped the Ram disk size to 12156k. The hda10 Linux kernel FINALLY booted, and now the installer is finishing as it's supposed to! I'll respond with the results of this.

**dibl** · Jan 21, 2010, 10:35 AM

Re: Installing Breezy Badger on PowerBook 3400c

I commend your courage and spirit of adventure!

I'm not sure I would try any KDE desktop system on that hardware, unless perhaps it was something like Slax. I think maybe I would try a new kernel with Xfce or maybe even E-Live with E17. The new 2.6.31 and 2.6.32 kernels are booting a lot faster than the old ones such as in Breezy, and might work faster on that hardware. Another idea might be the Ubuntu netbook remix, if you can stand the look of it -- even though yours is not a netbook, the "lightness" of it might help performance.

But, you're obviously enjoying the challenge there. Good for you!

**askrieger** · Jan 21, 2010, 10:41 AM

Re: Installing Breezy Badger on PowerBook 3400c

Why in the world are you installing a release from four years ago? I know nothing about macs, but I would imagine that the current version of Kubuntu (which has significantly more and better software than Breezy did) would run on your machine.

**dibl** · Jan 21, 2010, 11:09 AM

Re: Installing Breezy Badger on PowerBook 3400c

Ummm -- Al, did you catch the spec: 240 MHz, 80 MB ram? :P

**skunk** · Jan 21, 2010, 11:24 AM

Re: Installing Breezy Badger on PowerBook 3400c

Not to mention PowerPC architecture

**vinnywright** · Jan 21, 2010, 12:44 PM

Re: Installing Breezy Badger on PowerBook 3400c

Hummm sound's like a project for this weekend.......................I'll dig out a old aptiva 150Mhz(over clocked to 180) CPU with 80-90MB RAM (4 72 pin SIMM's) desined for win95 when it was new

and curentley (I think it hasent ben out the closet in years.) runing win98.

and see if I can get ANY of the current buntu's to run a GUI ........

on it.

and then any linux at all with a GUI ...... of course it wuld do a CLI but well see what we see.

of corse it's not PowerPC architecture but it sounds like fun

VINNY

**sithlord48** · Jan 21, 2010, 01:01 PM

Re: Installing Breezy Badger on PowerBook 3400c

my PPC (G3 B&W) hates linux disks... think i broke it when i installed OS X on it... for some reason since i have Openfirmware 3.1.1 it will not boot ne version of yaboot that i have found (btw New world mac)... its a shame cause i used to have ubuntu 5.04 or 5.10 on it. and it ran just fine, after the firmware upgrade (required to install os X). yaboot just laughs at me. guess that mac is going back in the closet w/ my other junk.

the slowest machine i have gotten kubuntu 9.10 on is an old hp pavilion , desgned for win95.(think its a p2 celeron @ 400mhz) its very slow. the key part was getting 256mb of ram that kde wanted. both xubuntu and ubuntu would run just fine when i had 192 mb of ram. the kubuntu live disk would hang and never load. (i know the requrements for the live disk is 256 but just wanted to try it ne way).

**sopranojam85** · Jan 21, 2010, 01:33 PM

Re: Installing Breezy Badger on PowerBook 3400c

Well, I've got a GUI

I'm in the kubuntu desktop, but I'm having graphics issues.

The X Boot graphics preferences only seem to have any effect on the shell as the kernel is booting.

My display is not filling my monitor. There's a bout a 1-inch unused border around the whole thing. And it's only at about 640x480. There's tons of vertical lines, and fuzziness, and most colors are gone, only grey and blue seem to be displayed.

I've tried the steps of: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum...fm/795356.html

Basically, I tried running sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
-- I tried configuring with the Chips driver, and with the VGA driver with no luck. I'm afraid to try other drivers listed.....
-- My video hardware is a Chips Technologies 65550. I can't know for sure how much video ram it has, it's either 1 or 2 megabytes. According to this guy's XF80Config-4 file, it uses a 119 horizontal refresh rate, and a 196 vertical refresh rate. I've tried both options, no luck.

So my primary question is -- take a look at this link: http://fare.livejournal.com/93274.html
Look for the long list of somebody's "successful" xf86 config file.
1.) Where is this file? I could not find it anywhere on this system.
2.) How do I edit, or add this file properly to make it work?

Any other ideas on kicking the graphics into gear on this thing?

**dibl** · Jan 21, 2010, 03:43 PM

Re: Installing Breezy Badger on PowerBook 3400c

That is the file known until recent times as /etc/X11/xorg.conf

It can be edited with any text editor, in root mode. Whether those particular values will make your video display better .... I dunno.

I guess you'll let us know.

**sopranojam85** · Jan 21, 2010, 04:26 PM

Re: Installing Breezy Badger on PowerBook 3400c

So I did this:

Booted to my typical GUI, open Konsole to a root console.
-- Type sudo pico /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Modified the parameters for the video card (keeping same identified and crap) to:

Driver "fbdev"
# BusID "PCI:0:17:0"

Modified the parameters of the "Screen" section (keeping same identifier and crap) to:

DefaultDepth 15
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 800 600
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
fbbpp 16
Modes "800x600"
# ViewPort 0 0
# Virtual 800 600
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
fbbpp 16
Modes "800x600"
# ViewPort 0 0
# Virtual 800 600
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 800 600
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 800 600
EndSubSection
EndSection

Saved. Rebooted. Golden

All graphics working now at full 800x600, 24-bit it seems.

**dibl** · Jan 21, 2010, 04:27 PM

Re: Installing Breezy Badger on PowerBook 3400c

Wow -- nice work!

**sopranojam85** · Jan 21, 2010, 09:39 PM

Re: Installing Breezy Badger on PowerBook 3400c

Well like I said, graphics are georgeous. There is a severe performance hit with the improved graphics but that's to be expected I guess.

I got the Ethernet working and my lucent wavelan silver PCMCIA wifi card working. Unfortunately I don't have wpa capabilities at the moment. Does kubuntu 5.10 have wpa capabilities? If not, can they be added through a package install or upgrade?

At some point I'd like to install firefox but I have no clue where to start after downloading it. I see a program called adept but am clueless about what to do with this.

If I could get pointed in the right direction I'd appreciate it.

**sithlord48** · Jan 21, 2010, 09:52 PM

Re: Installing Breezy Badger on PowerBook 3400c

adept would be your package manager... you can use it to install and remove programs. check it out you will like it

while you in there,see if you can fix your wpa search for "wpa" and see if any packages sound good (wpasupplment i think its called)

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