Help - Grey Screen

joel chouinard joelhp at proaxisweb.com
Thu Nov 2 22:04:43 UTC 2006


Thanks for the thoughts on that.  I am coming to the same conclusion for
the intel architecture.  Linux seems to be running decently on the g5,
however it is freezing (and/or really sluggish) when trying to exit from
open windows. Other than that I have gotten around the issues i'm finding.
 

On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 07:33 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
> joelhp at proaxisweb.com wrote:
> > Thanks for the suggestions.
> > 
> > I did try >linux text and >linux nofb to no avail and then ended up using an
> > adapter to a vga monitor from the DVI out and just used a standard vga monitor
> > and it seems to be installing fine so far.  I hope later to be able to get the
> > driver working for my monitor after the full install.
> 
> Ah well that's not too bad, looks like it was just coming out of the 
> other head in the end.
> 
> > A separate question,  If I had the choice to install Fedora onto an intel/mac
> > rather than the G5 dual 2.7 I have now, could I be limiting my ability to grow
> > with linux releases and functionality by staying with the non-intel chip?  I am
> > trying to avoid building myself into a box (yes..pun intended) that could raise
> > issues in the future if those issues could be eliminated with the newer
> > intel/mac.  The overall object of this install was to turn this box into a
> > reliable testing server for beta postgresql projects.
> 
> PowerPC appears to be, well, not dying, but moving into non-PC niches 
> like Xilinx FPGAs and Playstation 3, so I guess the main worry would be 
> about Fedora eventually dropping support for it in the next years.  I 
> guess if it costs something to move to Intel, I would stick with the 
> PowerPC box for now since you mainly want serving action from it which 
> should be easy to deliver well, and if PowerPC continues its decline you 
> can move in a couple of years.  Yellowdog is a distro that is predicated 
> around PowerPC so you could always migrate to that as a backup plan. 
> But if it costs nothing to use an Intel box, you are on a safer bet with 
> Fedora on an Intel architecture I would think.
> 
> -Andy
> 




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