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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/29/2014 01:45 AM,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:farinet@arcor.de">farinet@arcor.de</a> wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">I sucessfully installed lubuntu 14.04 ppc. That's great.
By far less great is the experience with. Below i list the errors i
noticed at a first glance (the machine is a pb g4, 1,3 ghz + altivec
with 2 gb ram):
- Suspend does not work. It only blanks the screen and from that it's
impossible to wake the pb up.
- the restart in the logout menu of lubuntu does not work
- <Alt><F2> does not work. And alot of other shortcuts as well.
- The macintosh 3rd level chars are not accessable. I did a
sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
(i tried as keyboard Apple and Apple Alluminium; may be i should try
another one? Which?)
- The combination of xkeyboardmap setting and ibus setting is somewhat
confusing. Which overrules which one. (On an amd laptop i turned the
ibus off with no harm, apparently ...).
- Moving windows, even with low charged cpu is dead slow (the windows
follow the grab like in slow motion (generally the pb is feeling
absolutely not snappy; in comparison an even older and slower thinkpad
feels like jet)
- network manager works not correctly. I substituted it by ceni, which
at least correctly recognizes the b43legacy (eventhough up to now, for
some reason it does not store the settings and i have to configure it
newly at any restart.
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Hi,<br>
Do you have sound? That is something that doesn't work one of the
PPC machines I have.<br>
If so be glad, the work around involves recompiling a kernel :(<br>
<br>
I installed xcompmgr and that seemed to help with moving the windows
around. (just add it to the startup list) You can install it and
test it in your session<br>
<tt>sudo apt-get install xcompmgr</tt><br>
and test it:<br>
<tt>xcompmgr &disown</tt><br>
&disown references the terminal you launch it from disowning it
so you can close the terminal when you want to.<br>
<br>
I have not gotten suspend to work on either PPC fully, yet either.
There may be a work around for it, if it was working in a previous
release. I am going to test out 12.04 on one PPC to see what works
there, and what doesn't.<br>
<br>
WiFi in PPC can be very funny. In the old Debian install I had I
had to remove the firmware from the installed directory until the
computer decided to randomly to start using the firmware on the
internal chip.<br>
<br>
Have you tried using xev yet to see if the keys produce any results?<br>
If you are unfamiliar with it, open a terminal and type<br>
<br>
<tt>xev</tt><br>
<br>
Then look at the output starting with<br>
<br>
<b>KeyPress event, </b><br>
<br>
and find the line with this info:<br>
state 0x0, keycode 37 (keysym 0xffe3, <small><b><big><big>Control_L</big></big></b></small>),
same_screen YES,<br>
<br>
I pushed the Control key on the left....<br>
<br>
You can then map the keys appropriately in your lubuntu-rc.xml file.<br>
Lubuntu doesn't yet have a graphical application for mapping keys.<br>
<br>
There was a post earlier about Alt+F2 not working, so you can mark
the bug as affecting you as well.<br>
<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Regards</pre>
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