eMac G4 700mhz doorstop

What sort of video problem? Do you plan on repairing or parting? Perhaps it's easily fixed?

I hate to part it but do not know how to fix. Tried loadind a live ppc linux disk but no luck. It seems fine with text and basic colour, but will not switch to higher resolutions

What exactly is it doing? Sounds interesting

I will take it back to the G3,G4, G5 section

That sounds like a linux problem, not a hardware problem. Try OS X.

Yeah it could be that the GNU/Linux distribution is the problem, although I've never encountered that with New World Macs. Then again, I've never tried on an eMac so you might want to make sure it's not the hardware by following John8520's recommendation.

It is worse with Mac OS X (various versions).

Do you have the Apple Hardware Test disc that you could run on it? Maybe it will find something.

Tried the glorious pram reset?

which card does it have? do you have a way of finding out?

700MHz eMacs all had the same graphics if I remember correctly, it was a 32mb nVidia GeFORCE2mx, not too bad for 10.3 or 10.4, pretty awesome if the intent is to boot OS 9.

uh... I think his board is going out ^_^ . Just encounted a problem like that on mine. It's the board, but not sure what on the board. The logic board should be fine, you just need to find another case/CRT/PSU for it. I wouldn't suggest that unless you can find another one on a local listing that has something like a bummed ethernet or something. Speaking of which, i will be posting on another topic about my recent acquisition

Success. Took a G4 9.22 disk and booted, wiped the the drive, and partitioned it properly. Loaded 9.22 on then Tiger. It works perfect.

I think linux gave it a video resolution that it did not support.