Upgrade Problem: Lubuntu PPC G3 13.04 to 13.10

[Israel]

On 05/06/2014 05:32 PM, Michael Dean Neukirchen wrote:
> Greetings; newbie here!
>  Old PowerBook PPC G3, 500 Mhz, 650 Mb ram; Mac PowerBook 'Pismo'.
>  Lubuntu resurrected it, but for how long?!
>  I've tried to update, twice, to newer, supported version 13.10, with
> bad effects: white screen - without the ability to toggle to terminal.
> Would an upgrade not have backward support for the graphics on this
> old thing (purchased in 2000 AD), or is this not to be expected?
> Could this finally be the twilight for this old machine? If so, is
> this old machine finally ready for the heap? Recycleable in any way?
> Many thanx! - Michael
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Have you tried booting with a yaboot parameter like
video=nomodeset

Your processor is slow, but you have a decent amount of RAM (for an old
computer)
It should run (even though it will be slow).
It sounds like an xorg problem to me...
This page is always helpful
http://mac.linux.be/content/apple-powerpc-wiki
particularly
http://mac.linux.be/content/xorgconf-files

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