I installed Debian/MintPPC 11 on my 12 inch (?Aluminum) Powerbook G4 PPC machine (867 MgHz G4, 640 megs RAM, 80 gig HD). I am pretty sure, but not absolutely positive it is this machine on everymac:

http://www.everymac.com/systems/appl...g4_867_12.html

It boots into X11 and runs reasonably well but the color depth is not set correctly (very low color depth). Resolution is probably correct.

This is occruring with no xorg.conf file in /etc/X11 that I could see.

I had a similar experience when I experimented briefly with MintPPC 9.3 a few months ago, before the HD died, after re-installing a HD, I installed MintPPC 11. At that time with MintPPC9.3 installing a xorg.conf file with (done as root):

fixed the problem; this time however (with Mintppc 11 instead) it does not work and crashes the X-server on booting. Changing the Driver to "nouveau" also makes no difference and still crashes the X-server.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thanks.

So that we have more information to investigate, please post (at least) the output of:
after an X crash.

And append the whole log as well (renamed as xlog.txt for instance).