PPC g4 nVidia and nouveau white flag!!!!

[Fritz Hudnut]

> On 07/04/2014 09:26 AM, luca bellini wrote:
> >
> > hi I've tried everything to try to get my old G4 with Lubuntu 14:04
> > but at this point I give up. I've tried a hundred xorg.conf but no one
> > went well I guess I'll wait for the 14:10 ... greetings
> >
> >
> >
> Hi Luca, I am so sorry for you.
> I wish PPC was better supported, I have also had issues with 14.04 and
> an iBook... But, fortunately the base of 12.04 is supported so Ubuntu
> Mini ISO install is still viable.  And even with Lubuntu 12.04 the main
> parts of the OS will be updated, however all the LXDE components wont
> be, and there is no such thing as a PPA for PPC (as far as I know...)
>
> One can only hope Utopic is really utopic for PPC :)
>

@IsraelD:

One could "hope" that Utopic is PPC friendly, but, didn't wxl say, "there
is no 14.10 alpha for PPC due to lack of response to request for testers .
. ."????  Personally haven't had time to throw at it either on my G4's . .
. figuring that 12.04 is the extent of it . . . .  But, if there is no NV
driver or nouveau isn't, what?  "adjusted" to handle nvidia cards, doesn't
look like 14.10 will be anywhere close to being "utopia" for PPC . . . .

@Luca:  I've got a G4 iMac 800 MHz processor, with now 1GB RAM that is
running 12.04 quite well . . . using nv driver, but I also used fbdev??
driver . . . did have to set up the xorg.conf file . . . if that looks
close to you, I'm happy to email a copy of it to you???  Unlikely to work
for 14.04 though . . . I think it's beyond the capacity of the G4 to handle
that system???  But, 12.04 is perfectly fine, except because I have wifi
card, that seems to interrupt "suspend" . . . and I think the latest
kernels took sound away, other stuff . . . I mainly still use 10.4.11 w/
Ten4Fox + perian and video/Youtube is back . . . .  Linux is just for sh**s
and giggles to fill in the idle moment . . . as PPC falls below the event
horizon of Linux and so forth . . . .  : - )

Let me know on the xorg.conf for Xu/Lu 12.04 with nv driver
(retro-installed) . . . .

F/e.e.p.
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