Hi, Sorry to disturb your methods, I am putting the order from first to last and answering at the bottom.
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 14:20:15 -0700 Walter Lapchynski <w...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Mari <saltyca...@gmail.com> wrote: > > But I am disappointed by the lack of PPC support-they are old computers > > people like to keep. Its mainly the issue with the old ATI rage Pro 128 > > cards which is slowing down the install and keeping it from running > > optimally (it should, in my opinion, run at least as well as OS X Tiger does > > and, in fact, should run faster). While there seems to be a fix out there > > that Debian still maintains, Ubuntu dropped support for the PPC some time > > ago and I had trouble compiling the necessary files for installation on the > > powermac. I'm sure I will sort it out eventually but its clearly not for the > > novice. > > > > I wonder if there might be a way to maintain a Lubuntu repo for these old > > PPC computers, since Lubuntu is great for older hardware. > Changes in Debian get synced downstream to Ubuntu. Where do you think > the fix is? Doesn't xserver-xorg-video-r128 work? This is what is supposed to work for ATI Rage Pro 128: https://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo I see the package in the list of files for PPC: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/trusty/daily/20150219/trusty-alternate-powerpc.list Perhaps some "dri" or "libdri" version 1 would not be available anymore ?? So? Mari, what would be missing you think? And why should it be faster than the operating system built for this architecture? (On a chan recently I've been told that Linux boxes dont make old Apple machines as optimally as the original OS'es, but I don't know that, I am not a Mac user). Best regards, Mélodie -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to : lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
