Yes, LXDE is much zippier than Gnome on this old beast. I set it up to boot into the command-line interface and only use startx occasionally.
I have given up on getting the sound card working as it will just be a development machine anyway. Any suggestions for a good development environment other than the standard GNU/GCC compiler tools collection? Cheers, Tom On Dec 17, 2009, at 11:07 PM, Risto Suominen wrote: > 2009/12/17, Gombang Nan Cengka <gomb...@gmail.com>: >> On Thursday 17 December 2009 22:35:56 Thomas Carlson wrote: >>> Is this the appropriate list to ask why Debian Lenny doesn't recognize the >>> sound card on my PowerMac G4 (Digital Audio)? Everything else works >>> fine. >>> > Definitely. > >>> Since Apple stopped supporting OS X Tiger I have been trying out various >>> Linux flavors. Any recommendations? >>> > As the computer is not especially powerful measured with today's > standards, I would recommend Debian with LXDE desktop. >> >> I don't have PowerMac G4, but I guess the fix will be to load snd_powermac >> kernel module. It works on my iBook G4. >> -- > Yes, snd_powermac should work (G4 Silver): > http://wiki.debian.org/PowerpcSoundcards > > Risto > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
