Hello! First, so sorry if I'm spamming anyone, I'm new to mailing lists... Second, thank you so much for a distro aimed at ppc32 - my fallback was always Gentoo but so much of my time seemed to be spent recompiling. apk looks really promising. I've installed Adelie from the manual installer (I'd be happy to throw my hat in the ring to maybe help make that a little clearer) and set the auto boot in Open Firmware, works like a charm at the CLI. I'm now working on a DE X install. icewm, to be exact. I don't really care about speed, I'm just really after something functional. I've given up on the ati drivers and am falling back to fbdev. The X test on the config.new fails with something about the mode. I've tried forcing the mode in the Monitor config section but no joy. I've removed the blacklist entry in modprobes.d for radeonfb and modprobe radeonfb worked, and given it another go, but still no luck and I realise that frankly I don't know what I'm doing so I thought I'd just ask. Thank you all in advance Phil. Welcome Phil, Wild shot in the dark as well, There should be a Xorg log in /var/log Grep for "(EE)" Have tried to start X as root, to make sure it is not a privilege issue Also on your repositories have you checked these two additional repos? /etc/apk/repositories my list for amd64: https://distfiles.adelielinux.org/adelie/current/system/ https://distfiles.adelielinux.org/adelie/current/user/ https://distfiles.apkfission.net/adelie/1.0/main/ https://distfiles.apkfission.net/adelie/1.0/nonfree/ I don't think apkfission have ppc32 only ppc64 You probably know better :)