Testing Vivid PPC liveDVD on G4 Sawtooth

[Fritz Hudnut]

@IA:

Thanks for the reply, yes, LXDE should work as XFCE is doing fine.  Getting
the machine up to 2GB RAM seems to have been very good for increasing
functionality.  I will get around to looking at the formal testing using it
as far as "listing the specs" of it . . . but that could be a short list or
longer depending on who is asking.  What specs would you be wanting to
know?

F

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 3:30 AM, Istimsak Abdulbasir <saqman2060 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> LXDE should work fine with a 450MHz CPU. Won't be bleeding edge but
> operational. Do you know the specs of your AGP? You should definitely list
> your PC specs when testing. The more hardware Ubuntu can be tested on the
> better agile it becomes.
> On Mar 22, 2015 8:57 PM, "Fritz Hudnut" <este.el.paz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Folks/PPC testing team:
>>
>> Just staying in touch, making this "informal" report for now.  The last
>> couple of months I've been reviving my wife's old PowerMac G4 "Sawtooth" .
>> . . new HD, new screen, and yesterday I replaced the old optical drive that
>> only booted CDs with one that will boot DVDs . . . added some RAM.  Then
>> booted up a copy of U-MATE PPC, no boot params . . . and several minutes
>> later I was into a good res desktop and stuff worked.
>>
>> I then tried a Feb 6??? iso of Vivid PPC that I believe booted with the
>> "agp" params OK in my iBook . . . and we slowly (450 MHz processor) got to
>> a desktop with the Lu background symbol . . . but kind of rough res images,
>> and just the trash can and "install" icons on the desktop . . . icon ID
>> words were not read-able and the "LXDE" launcher applet never appeared.
>> While I was trying to figure out how to set the system time it seemed like
>> the system and my screen "went to sleep" . . . screen went black and the
>> power button turned orange from its active blue.  Could not revive the
>> situation . . . shut down with the power button.
>>
>> Rebooted the MATE DVD to see if it would work, and once again after quite
>> some time on the splash window . . . back into a working liveDVD.  So, this
>> is a "new" machine for me, haven't done a bunch of linux installs on it to
>> know whether or not what boot params would be needed; coincidentally or not
>> it happens to be the "AGP" Sawtooth model.  A month or so back I had a CD
>> with Xu 12.04 that I was able to boot and install from the old optical
>> drive, no boot params needed for that, very simple install.  I would stay
>> with 12 but, as we know it will soon be "unsupported" . . . will probably
>> just go to 14.04 for it anyway, but does seem like there might be something
>> else I need for 15 on this '00 model machine.  12 doesn't offer a working
>> "suspend" at this time, perhaps now that I have 2 GB RAM I might try to
>> expand the swap and see if that helps the ability to suspend without
>> shutting down to revive . . . .
>>
>> That's the latest in my PPC testing efforts, pretty sure this unit will
>> not be on the qa list, but I do plan on running it for awhile so there may
>> be time to test stuff out "formally" on it.
>>
>> F
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