iMac 600 MHZ

[Peter Gort]

Thanks to everyone who replied both list and back channel, and  
especially for the "idiot's guide" to how to get around it.

On 29/12/2006, at 8:28 AM, Ubence Quevedo wrote:

> Check this forum thread on how to get the graphical install to work  
> properly.
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=296870
>
> Here is the pertinent text from the link:
>
> After booting is complete,
> 1. ctrl-option-F1 (should give you a command prompt)
> 2. type: sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf (return)
> 3. Modify "HorizSync" to 58-62 and "VertRefresh" to 75-117. Both  
> are in the monitors section.
> 4. Disable DRI (in the modules section, put a hash mark (#) at the  
> beginning of the line containing "load dri").
> 4. ctrl-O (return) to write edited file
> 5. ctrl-X to exit nano back to command line
> 6. type: sudo killall -HUP gdm (return) to restart Gnome
>
> I tried this and it worked, no slow down or anything after the  
> install.
>
> However, when I did a distro upgrade from 6.06 to 6.10, things just  
> broke again, I couldn't get it fixed, so I gave up.
>
> The iMac I installed on was a 500Mhz Graphite G3 with 512MB of RAM.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> -Ubence
>