Xubuntu- lil' mouse anyone?

darklight55 · 01-11-2007, 09:22 AM

Hello,

I have a Mac Powerbook circa 2000-2001 that I was going to install ubuntu on. Because this is just basically going to be a test box so I can learn to build and recompile kernels, I thought "What the heck" maybe I'll try xubuntu. Its supposed to be much lighter and sreamlined than ubuntu/kubuntu. The only thing that I'm wondering is if it has the same video card support that the full distros have. Because this is an older Mac, I'm worried about having trouble with graphics. Thoughts?

Thanks,

dl

camorri · 01-11-2007, 10:03 AM

The main difference between Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Xubuntu is the desktop, other than that, they are the same. I'm running Xubuntu on an old laptop. I have had the other flavours installed on the same system. All worked with the old graphics adapter I have. So, if your works with the U or K flavour, X should work also.

Try booting the Xubuntu CD as a live CD. If that works, you should be good to go to install.

aquaboot · 01-12-2007, 12:18 AM

Boot takes forever. Resolution only takes 800x600 and XFCE freezes. Hmm... think I'll go back to Etch- much faster.

-ab

IndyGunFreak · 01-13-2007, 07:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aquaboot

Boot takes forever. Resolution only takes 800x600 and XFCE freezes. Hmm... think I'll go back to Etch- much faster.

-ab

Obviously, any distro, different hardware will give different results. Xubuntu works quite well on my laptop(older 1ghz), and my PC(newer 2.4ghz). I had the prob with X being only 800x600 on my PC before, and it is solved by editing xorgsever.conf.

After I followed Redeye2's instructions in the thread below, it worked perfectly.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=495248

Hope that helps..

IGF

aquaboot · 01-13-2007, 09:03 AM

Thanks for the insight and the link. I'll fiddle around with it and see what I get.

Thanks