what Linux is best for a PPC7300 with a Sonnet G3 card and a MacPicasso540?

From: Frank O. Fackelmayer (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 10/25/04

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    Hi all,
    I want to try Linux on my "old" Powermac 7300 (originally 7300/200),
    which now has a Sonnet G3 card (340MHz), 192MB of RAM and a MP540
    graphic card.
    I tried YDL 3.01, but - although it ran well on the Mac when I bypass
    the graphic card and use on-board graphics only - I was not able to run
    it with the MP540. It its fine in text mode, but the X server does not
    perform well (wrong colors with lot of purple, I guess its a screen sync
    problem but find no way around it)

    Is there a Linux distribution that you can recommend, and that works
    with the MacPicasso card?

    Frank

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