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luke_v

10-30-2002, 01:14 AM

I recently installed Yellow Dog 2.3 and am having two problems.

First, the only way I could get linux to correctly install on my iMac was to create a fail-safe display profile. However, the low resolution and lack of color depth make my scrren not look too good. I think I am only at 8-bit color right now. Is there any way I can change my resolution and color depth and still get linux to boot successfully?

Second, I have started to install programs in linux and have run into many binary files. How do I install these? When I try to install them in the command line, it says that it can't execute binaries.

solo

11-01-2002, 10:19 AM

Two questions...

Which iMac do you have (1st gen w/ CRT, or 2nd gen w/ flat panel)?

Are you using RPM's to install the programs, or tarballs, or what?

luke_v

11-01-2002, 11:55 AM

I have an iMac DV 400. I have gotten the colors to look better, but my on screen fonts still don't look great.

luke_v

11-01-2002, 11:56 AM

they are tar files

solo

11-01-2002, 09:52 PM

The font issue:

Have you looked at this?...

http://freetype.sourceforge.net/index2.html

If you do a Google search (in the Linux channel) for TrueType fonts, you'll find lots more links for potential fixes.

Running executables:

Not all Linux applications will run on a Linux system built for PPC. I would suggest that you get the source of the apps you'd like to use, and compile them on the iMac (still might not work though :( ).