Testing the lubuntu 14.04-ppc live iso

[Israel]

On 05/03/2014 10:15 AM, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
> Gents:
>
> Booted the LiveDVD of Lu 14.04 in my iBook last night, using
> "live-powerpc video=radeonfb:1024x768-32" as boot parameters, and that
> got me into a clean GUI display, so that part was fine.  But, no sound
> was found, and that in and of itself isn't putting me off using 14.04,
> but rather it is the slowness of xorg. Window dragging seems to be
> slow, and doesn't follow the mouse movement, but seems to be
> independent of it. And also scrolling in firefox, e.g., in a long
> forum thread, is sluggish . . . .  Doesn't seem to be tailored to PPC
> users?
>
> On the flip side, Xubun 14 in my MBPro runs OK, albeit does seem to
> run at higher temps than LM16, which I thought was running hot . . . .
>
> F/e.e.p.
>
>
Hi,
The sound is a known issue inherited from Debian, please mark this bug
as affecting you!
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hw-detect/+bug/1296373
There are currently not very pretty workarounds for this issue.

But, I suppose we could start a thread here on working on it.  In
essence it seems to be an issue with the Kernel.  Someone on this list
(sorry I can't remember who right this moment) worked around this issue
by installing an earlier kernel.  The hw-detect module is messed up so
now it detects the wrong hardware, or something like that.  To fix this
you have to basically compile your own kernel after fixing the errors. 
There may be a simpler work around, but so far I have tried blacklisting
modules, and modprobing other modules in to see if I can get it to
work.  So far, I have not had any progress in getting it to work....
sound should work just fine in 12.04.

I found that installing xcompmgr helped make my iBook seem to display
things better, so you can try that and see if it helps.

It is nice to see so many people using Lubuntu on the iBook!  Hopefully
Utopic will be a good testing ground for the iBook and we can get some
things SRU'd back into trusty for all of us that want a nice stable
release to run for a while.

@Devs there are a lot of iBook users on this list apparently, so please
sen out an e-mail to let us all know what to test, and when to test it.

-- 
Regards

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