Re: [Lubuntu-qa] lubuntu powerpc desktop 20120928 SUCCESS

2012-10-01 Thread Greg Faith
Guys, Please I found it on a website no magic in that.. Greg nm_geo On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Ron Mitchell wrote: > > You are indeed a miracle worker! > > > Works here too from the live CD and from the Alternate. > > Thank you so much! > > Ron Mitchell > > > > On 2012-09-28, at 9:

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] lubuntu powerpc desktop 20120928 SUCCESS

2012-10-01 Thread Arild Lindseth
Anyhow, a good find. It works both on Ubuntu and Lubuntu ppc on my white iBook G4. I can boot live CD !! Regards On 10/01/2012 08:35 PM, Greg Faith wrote: Please I found it on a website no magic in that.. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to : lubuntu-qa@l

[Lubuntu-qa] Fwd: lubuntu powerpc desktop 20120928 SUCCESS

2012-10-01 Thread Phill Whiteside
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. What is required is a fix that works for all. PPC is running out of time, you have 'fixes' b

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Fwd: lubuntu powerpc desktop 20120928 SUCCESS

2012-10-01 Thread Ron Mitchell
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

[Lubuntu-qa] Graphs

2012-10-01 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi, next time anyone asks why I call Julien "Boss", have a look at the graph[1]... No, we cannot do everything but it is a good looking graph :) Thanks boss, you, the other devs, artwork, support, testers et all are the team that make up Lubuntu... All of you are amazing and is a pleasure to

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Fwd: lubuntu powerpc desktop 20120928 SUCCESS

2012-10-01 Thread Phill Whiteside
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

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] lubuntu powerpc desktop 20120928 SUCCESS

2012-10-01 Thread Greg Faith
ff video=radeonfb:off video=1024x768-32 radeon.agpmode=-1 All I get is a frozen screen with some text: __ Then I used> *live video=radeonfb:1024x768-32@60 * Bingo that is what worked for me. I am doing a zsync to test to

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] lubuntu powerpc desktop 20120928 SUCCESS

2012-10-01 Thread UH
This seems working for me as well with the only slight customization in the video related yaboot option to my screen 1400x900 -32@59,9. I only booted and didn' t install right now. Will try tomorrow (after cleaning a hd). Just a question regard what Phill said: Do i understand right that means, if

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Fwd: lubuntu powerpc desktop 20120928 SUCCESS

2012-10-01 Thread
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.

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] lubuntu powerpc desktop 20120928 SUCCESS

2012-10-01 Thread Jonathan Marsden
mean the end of PPC, just six months of no official PPC GUI release from Ubuntu. I can't yet get the Lubuntu Desktop or Alternate ISOs to boot to a GUI on a borrowed Powerbook G4 with an nVidia card in it. But Ubuntu Server installs and runs fine for me on that hardware. Will try t

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] lubuntu powerpc desktop 20120928 SUCCESS

2012-10-01 Thread Phill Whiteside
tu Desktop or Alternate ISOs to boot to a GUI > on a borrowed Powerbook G4 with an nVidia card in it. But Ubuntu Server > installs and runs fine for me on that hardware. Will try the 20121001 > daily tonight if I can. > > Jonathan > -- > Jonathan Marsden > jmars...@fastmai

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] lubuntu powerpc desktop 20120928 SUCCESS

2012-10-01 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 10/01/2012 07:16 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote: > For server-ppc, what is needed is where the test cases are simply > wrong (such as check the processor you have) etc. and which are > applicable. Whilst I can try to do an install via qemu (and most > certainly will), what would really help is if yo

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] lubuntu powerpc desktop 20120928 SUCCESS

2012-10-01 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi Jonathan, in answer to how it passed at 12.04? I have no idea. I cannot find an PPC-Server edition for 12.04. I am sure you have the link Main thing is now that I'm aware of a PPC-Server edition, we may as well do the tests and get the little critter approved :) Regards, Phill. On 2 Oct

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] lubuntu powerpc desktop 20120928 SUCCESS

2012-10-01 Thread
I'll let you guys chat about server and all amongst yourself. Meanwhile… > Meanwhile, if anyone has successfully got a 12.10 GUI Lubuntu working on > PPC (G4) with an nVidia video card, please let me know the secret :) Johnathan, I see that you've got a nVidia chip. This is exciting because most

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] lubuntu powerpc desktop 20120928 SUCCESS

2012-10-01 Thread Jonathan Marsden
On 10/01/2012 09:22 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote: > in answer to how it passed at 12.04? I have no idea. I cannot find > an PPC-Server edition for 12.04. I am sure you have the link http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-server/precise/daily/20121001.1/precise-server-powerpc.iso That's a daily, but

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] lubuntu powerpc desktop 20120928 SUCCESS

2012-10-01 Thread Jonathan Marsden
X display at all, just text mode. Working ttys on Alt-F1 to Alt-F6, and a couple of "starting" messages from services on Alt-F7, where I would expect X to show up in a perfect world :) Now you know why I started testing the PPC server ISO instead of the Lubuntu one! But today, using