Hi, Which driver are you using ? I have Debian on my Apple G4, G5 and Acube machines and I don't have any problems with graphic driver and lxde. Try to look at your xorg config. Maybe it's broken.
On 28 October 2014 08:48, Athanasios Anastasiou <athanastas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone > > Thanks for the replies. Debian wheezy powerpc installed without any > problems at all. I can't really control the writer's speed. I used a CDRW > which listed only one speed (10x) but everything worked out alright in the > end. > > Unfortunately, I got a bit greedy and selected the LXDE desktop which > boots properly all the way to the graphic environment and then into a black > screen. > > I tried to cycle through different graphic modes but I may be doing > something wrong here, is it still Ctrl-Command- (plus or minus) to cycle > through valid modes? > > If i double click "enter" I can see the monitor flicking. > > Worst case scenario would be to re-install, which I would like to avoid if > possible. > > All the best > AA > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 2:14 PM, gw-isJ-aB-superstar < > gw-supers...@mp3groupie.de> wrote: > >> Try installing Debian (stable aka Wheezy), and in the installer it will >> let >> you chose the server "tasks" (meta packages) you want, be sure to chose >> web >> server, print server, etc. for your goals... >> >> The old macs' CD drives can only read disks that were burned at very slow >> speeds, so, I know you said before the cd had integrity, but it it may go >> beyond that, so when you burn your Debian cd or net-installer cd, make >> sure it >> was created at 1-4x >> >> gw >> Debian user >> >> -- >> On Monday 27 October 2014 12:36:03 Athanasios Anastasiou wrote: >> > installation starts alright, scans for hardware and then starts >> > downloading packages from the CDROM. Towards the end of this process it >> > fails with something like "apt-cdrom-install could not be located for an >> > unknown reason, installation is aborted". :( >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > Here is what I have tried: >> > >> > 1) Checked the CD's integrity (pass) >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >> listmas...@lists.debian.org >> Archive: >> https://lists.debian.org/201410271514.32665.gw-supers...@mp3groupie.de >> >> > -- Best regards Marcin Spoczynski e-mail: mar...@spoczynski.com
