Opensuse 10.3 Not Working On Imac G5

First off, what I want most of all is for someone to say that my computer isn't broken. I'm worried that it may be a hardware problem.

Installation seemed to work just fine. The computer boots up into Suse without too much difficulty. Though there are some really weird glitches. http://s143.photobucket.com/albums/r...t=SSPX1014.jpg

There are no errors or warnings that pop up. But the glitches get worse pretty quickly. http://s143.photobucket.com/albums/r...t=SSPX1018.jpg

Until it freezes and I have to hold down the power button to reboot. http://s143.photobucket.com/albums/r...t=SSPX1019.jpg

I might be wasting everyone's time by posting here. Booting in Mac OSX only works in safe mode. But I'm hoping that in Linux I can find what might be causing the problem.

Thanks in advance for your time.

My computer:
New World iMac G5
64-bit PPC
ATI 9600 graphics card
Now running OpenSuse 10.3, 64-bit version

Hi,

Sounds like the graphics card has failed or hardware issue.

Apple has an extended warranty fix certain S/N.

http://www.apple.com/support/imac/re...ensionprogram/

You could try running the hardware diagnostics on the mac boot dvd. Put the dvd in, boot while
holding down the "d" key.

This forum at apple support has suggested trying a graphics debug utility called quartz debug for similar issues when running 10.5.1

http://discussions.apple.com/thread....sageID=6968726

Quartz Debug would be locate at the root of your hard disk, at: Developer:Applicationserformance Tools.

If you do not have a "Developer" folder, that's because you haven't installed the optional XCode tools that came on your Leopard DVD (I think it's on the SECOND DVD).

Hope this helps...

Ok, I tried all of that. My computer doesn't qualify for the extended warranty plan. The Quartz Debug program is really neat but it didn't give me any practical information. My computer passes the Hardware test with flying colors.

Do you have any other ideas?