Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Fwd: Success: PPC 14.04 with the desktop freeze/radeon driver

2014-11-01 Thread Israel
On 11/01/2014 04:50 PM, Aere Greenway wrote: > On 11/01/2014 03:24 PM, Boris Reinhard wrote: >> >> Almost there Fritz, >> >> you will need to run >> >> firmware-b43-installer >> >> the legacy one is for oder cards, yours is one of the newer Airport >> extreme cards. >> > You might need to remove th

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Fwd: Success: PPC 14.04 with the desktop freeze/radeon driver

2014-11-01 Thread Aere Greenway
On 11/01/2014 03:24 PM, Boris Reinhard wrote: Almost there Fritz, you will need to run firmware-b43-installer the legacy one is for oder cards, yours is one of the newer Airport extreme cards. You might need to remove the legacy installer, and then possibly re-install the newer installer.

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Fwd: Success: PPC 14.04 with the desktop freeze/radeon driver

2014-11-01 Thread Boris Reinhard
I guess the other installer won't do anything as it's simply for different hardware, you could uninstall or leave it, if there could be conflicts I think the other installer would mention them vor simply overwrite stuff, but likely it just would "coexist" :) Am 01.11.2014 22:34 schrieb "Fritz Hudnu

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Fwd: Success: PPC 14.04 with the desktop freeze/radeon driver

2014-11-01 Thread Fritz Hudnut
Boris: Ah, right, that's what I was wondering . . . so if I run "firmware-b43-installer" . . . will that override the "firmware-b43-legacy-installer" command that I already ran? I got confused in thinking about my experiences with my older iMac, which I think took "legacy" . . . and the iBook, wh

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Fwd: Success: PPC 14.04 with the desktop freeze/radeon driver

2014-11-01 Thread Boris Reinhard
Almost there Fritz, you will need to run firmware-b43-installer the legacy one is for oder cards, yours is one of the newer Airport extreme cards. Am 01.11.2014 21:30 schrieb "Fritz Hudnut" : > @Aere: > > Thanks for that, but right, it's all about "cost/benefit" ratio . . . I've > been through

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Fwd: Success: PPC 14.04 with the desktop freeze/radeon driver

2014-11-01 Thread Fritz Hudnut
@Aere: Thanks for that, but right, it's all about "cost/benefit" ratio . . . I've been through this wifi thing a number of times but ubuntu sort of made me "lazy" as it and LM both offer the "additional drivers" option, and budda-bing . . . wifi was installed. Even thinking that in my previous in

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Fwd: Success: PPC 14.04 with the desktop freeze/radeon driver

2014-11-01 Thread Aere Greenway
On 11/01/2014 11:58 AM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: I eagerly ran those commands, and stuff happened . . . but on reboot the same error message showed up, checked add'l drivers--no drivers available. Maybe the G4 iBook isn't "b43-legacy"?? Same commands but without "legacy"?? I know that traditional

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Fwd: Success: PPC 14.04 with the desktop freeze/radeon driver

2014-11-01 Thread Fritz Hudnut
@Aere: I eagerly ran those commands, and stuff happened . . . but on reboot the same error message showed up, checked add'l drivers--no drivers available. Maybe the G4 iBook isn't "b43-legacy"?? Same commands but without "legacy"?? I know that traditionally wifi has been one of the "snafu's" . .

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Fwd: Success: PPC 14.04 with the desktop freeze/radeon driver

2014-11-01 Thread Aere Greenway
On 11/01/2014 11:16 AM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: Only other issue of minor concern . . . no "b43-legacy driver" is found in software updates "additional drivers" . . . in the splash an http address shows fast to where the b43 driver can be found . . . can't read it. Forgive my ignorance, but would

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Fwd: Success: PPC 14.04 with the desktop freeze/radeon driver

2014-11-01 Thread Fritz Hudnut
BR: Added "radeon.agpmode=-1" to the append line . . . as "video=ofonly" was ***already there***?? But, that didn't seem to be "recognized" until I added it in second window, i.e., "Linux video=ofonly radeon.agpmode=-1"??? The freezing problem remained when I just used "radeon.agpmode=-1" . . .

Re: Fwd: Success: PPC 14.04 with the desktop freeze/radeon driver

2014-11-01 Thread Boris Reinhard
sudo nano /etc/yaboot.conf add these to the append=”” lines and save changes to the file, after that sudo ybin -v and after a reboot it all should stick :) Am 01.11.2014 16:04 schrieb "Fritz Hudnut" : > Forwarding this: top posted comment: Boris R. has been giving me some > pointers towards get

Fwd: Success: PPC 14.04 with the desktop freeze/radeon driver

2014-11-01 Thread Fritz Hudnut
Forwarding this: top posted comment: Boris R. has been giving me some pointers towards getting 14.04 PPC into more use-able state on my G4 iBook . . . seems to have made a difference using "Linux video=ofonly radeon.agpmode=-1" at the second Yaboot window . . . now I would wonder how to make that

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2014-11-01 Thread Nio Wiklund
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