I'd be inclined to agree with Lars if we weren't dealing with Apple PPC's.
Seems to me that post 1995, the company never made the same computer twice. At
one point years ago, I had a basement full of them. Difficult under such
circumstances to be all things to all people, especially given that
I agree for many aspects with Lars and Jonathan. At least cd boot and
installation should work out of the box. Several years ago i had an
option to get a nice intel based powerbook for very cheap but i
renounced because of the - at that time - keyboard hassle (german keyb
here).
Anyway, just a que
Very often the target of this first linux install is otherwise discarded
hardware.
There's a lot to be said for having the installation CDs work right out
of the box. Because we do not have a foothold in the OEM market, manual
installation is very often a new user's very first serious exposure to
On 10/02/2012 01:03 PM, o jordan wrote:
> There is absolutely no reason to fail PPC over the radeon issue. It
> is not a big deal. It is easy to fix. The workaround is documented
> (and had been when the problem started back in August). Can we please
> put the radeon/nouveau problems into persp
Okay I did another install of the current daily 20121002 tonight.
Used the method in the first email in this thread to get a usable live
session.
live video=radeonfb:1024x768-32@60
Got a live session and made the install. Started doing some checking and
notice in lsmod I have no obvious graphic
s far as I'm concerned the current PowerPC setup is the best it can be.
> > The only change I still would like is for the boot message to be
> > reviewed. In my email to Colin Watson I said that no boot parameter
> > should be suggested, but instead people directed t
n get detailed and current advice.
>
> I repeat again, there is no reason to fail PowerPC that you have
> identified.
>
> Regards
>
> Adam
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 00:20:28 +0100
> Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Fwd: lubun
were they can get detailed and current
advice. I repeat again, there is no reason to fail PowerPC that you have
identified. Regards Adam
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 00:20:28 +0100
Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Fwd: lubuntu powerpc desktop 20120928 SUCCESS
From: phi...@ubuntu.com
To: rm2...@gmail.com
C
On the Radeon Powerbook yep.
wxl
On Oct 1, 2012 3:18 PM, "Phill Whiteside" wrote:
> hiyas,
>
> Can you give a "test this" and confirm if it works. As you are more than
> aware, if I am to approach an up stream group then all the individual 'I
> got it to work for my computer' means exactly zero.
Hiyas,
@Adam,. I would really prefer that you take on the chat to ubuntu-X over
this. If this is not possible, can you put up on one of the various bug
reports the email information that has been discussed and point me to the
bug number that I need to nag over.
The lubuntu PPC testers are all hea
Yes, it works here.
Ron Mitchell
From: Phill Whiteside
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 3:18 PM
To: lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net
Cc: o jordan
Subject: [Lubuntu-qa] Fwd: lubuntu powerpc desktop 20120928 SUCCESS
hiyas,
Can you give a "test this" and confirm if it works. As you are more than a
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