![]() ![]() Now, sound and wireless won’t work out of the box. I believe just a regular apt-get upgrade would also work without disabling the PPA sources, maybe someone can chime in here. So when you do a dist-upgrade, remember to comment out the PPA sources for apt. So I did a dist-upgrade and broke the system, I had to reinstall. Now, I hadn’t really used Linux for a couple years so I was bit rusty, and I wasn’t really up to date on the whole PPA’s business. Remember to add the nouveau.noaccel=1 argument again, so the prompt will look like Go ahead and install it, I just picked the defaults and let it do its thing. ![]() The nouveau.noaccel=1 argument is very important, it disables hardware acceleration, which fixes graphical issues and random freezing. The toram argument loads the live-cd into ram so you don’t have to keep waiting while the disk drive keeps churning when loading programs etc. When booting up the computer with the live-cd, I used Now, these powerpc releases are known for having graphics issues, so I will outline as well what I did to get a working desktop with 2d acceleration. It's nice that 15.04 is an official ppc release, but it wouldn't even boot off the live-cd, spitting out an error about 'unable to open rtc device (rtc0)'. No need bleeding edge software or shorter release cycles for a simple office computer. I decided to install the 14.04 LTS release so that it can continue to receive security updates for 5 years at least. Most of this information is scattered around so apologies if it's redundant for some of you. I put in a hard drive and installed UbuntuMATE.Īfter spending about 2 weeks with it and reading blogs and forum posts, I would like to put together that steps that worked for me to get it working and stable with 2d acceleration. I decided I was going to install Linux on it to give it up to date programs and OS. It had MacOSX with outdated programs and running pretty slow at that. It is a dual core with 4gb ram and an Nvidia 6600. I had Power Mac G5 that was being used in a small office before the hard drive died. ![]()
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