Re: [Lubuntu-qa] [PPC]

2013-10-17 Thread James King
I have an external DVD burner which has worked in the past with PPC, though not everyone has that. I'll use that for my tests this weekend. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 17, 2013, at 6:09 AM, Lars Noodén lars.noo...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/16/13 11:59 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote: The iso tracker

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] release notes (was: Re: PPC Image size)

2013-10-13 Thread James King
I have to do the same thing when installing to get usable graphics, but on my Mac Mini, after the installation, I don't have to retype the video=radeonfb... on every reboot. I only have the video configuration that I enter, though: I don't have an option to change from 1024x768 to 800x600 or

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] release notes

2013-10-13 Thread James King
No, this was definitely from the alternate. I burned it to a CD from my Mac Mini then installed it from that CD. (Entire Disk) I did make a report to the tracker. On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Lars Noodén lars.noo...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/13/2013 04:02 PM, James King wrote: On Sat, Oct

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] PPC Image size

2013-10-10 Thread James King
I'll try the alternate when I get back to my studio this weekend. (I'll also burn the desktop installer to a DVD to be sure it works, too.) Since a lot of Mac Mini users have just the SuperDrive that only burns CDs, the alternate will probably see more use this time around. Is there a way to

[Lubuntu-qa] [PPC] Installation from live disc results in soft lockup

2013-08-19 Thread James King
The 9/18 PPC disc booted up great from my Mac Mini and installation was flawless until the time to reboot. I got this error as it was trying to reboot: BUG: soft lockup CPU#0 stuck for 23s [modemmanager:1310] I did a hard poweroff, then rebooted, and am sending this from Firefox in the new

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] [PPC] 13.10

2013-08-17 Thread James King
I'm looking forward to being able to test as I have a chance. On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Phill Whiteside phi...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hi folks, as of when the next rebuild happens [1] the kernel for ppc should now boot okay. This has been tested with servers (G3 G5) only and how it

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] [PPC] Request to test

2013-07-25 Thread James King
I went ahead and did a full install (no encryption, fluendo option disabled) using the 7/23 build on my Mac Mini, and it was successful (I'm using Firefox on my Mini with the 7/23 build to post this). Before I download the 7/26 builds. I want to test the live section of the disk and try to

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] [PPC] Request to test

2013-07-25 Thread James King
. Regards, Phill On 26 July 2013 04:47, Phill Whiteside phi...@ubuntu.com wrote: thank you for your time, but the rebuild is what needs testing, we are looking to the future, not at history. Regards, Phill. On 25 July 2013 23:46, James King jlki...@gmail.com wrote: I went ahead and did

[Lubuntu-qa] Crap crap crap I'm sorry guys

2013-07-23 Thread James King
I got delayed over at a doctor's appointment that was scheduled for 1:00pm ... just got back to my studio and saw the time and realized that I missed the IRC meeting. Man, I let you guys down. I apologize. I'll go commit seppuku if it will help. -- Mailing list:

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] [PPC] Bugs going into Alpha 2

2013-07-18 Thread James King
Phill, I'll plan on being there. On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Phill Whiteside phi...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hi, I've asked, and been given a list of bugs that are preventing ppc to run in 13.10. Could at least one person from the PPC side of testing make them selves available at the next

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] [PPC] mac mini won't boot

2013-07-14 Thread James King
If you don't even get to the yaboot screen white text on a black background), I'm at a loss to figure out what to do next. On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Jackson Doak nosk...@ubuntu.com wrote: Netboot probably does work, just my mac is having issues with the display On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] PPC: Live CD will not boot to GUI

2013-07-13 Thread James King
Just an addition to what I reported earlier: from the terminal window in Ubuntu Server, I tried installing lubuntu-desktop. When I rebooted, I had the same hang at the flashing dots that normally happens. I ctrl-alt-f1'd to get to a screen, I could login. Since lubuntu-desktop was installed, I

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] [PPC] post alpha 1

2013-07-13 Thread James King
). Regards, Phill. On 12 July 2013 19:28, James King jlki...@gmail.com wrote: The last Live CD that worked for me is one from June 13. (I did not try another daily build for 8 days after that.) I have yet to have a Live CD boot up for me since then. Alternate CDs will go through

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] [PPC] post alpha 1

2013-07-12 Thread James King
The last Live CD that worked for me is one from June 13. (I did not try another daily build for 8 days after that.) I have yet to have a Live CD boot up for me since then. Alternate CDs will go through the installation process, but afterwards, the computer hangs on reboot in a similar fashion to

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Booting Saucy PPC Alternate disc

2013-06-25 Thread James King
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Nio Wiklund nio.wikl...@gmail.com wrote: On 2013-06-25 18:30, ke...@refaceplace.net wrote: On Jun 25, 2013, at 11:47 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: On 2013-06-25 17:39, ke...@refaceplace.net wrote: On Jun 25, 2013, at 11:30 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: On

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] [PPC] Saucy Daily Build for 6/21 hangs on Plymouth Text Screen

2013-06-23 Thread James King
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 12:52 PM, ke...@refaceplace.net wrote: On Jun 23, 2013, at 10:10 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: On 06/23/2013 03:12 PM, ke...@refaceplace.net wrote: Once you learn how to do it, it's very easy and faster than using a cd drive. At least it seems faster to me. And, if you

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] [PPC] Saucy Daily Build for 6/21 hangs on Plymouth Text Screen

2013-06-23 Thread James King
Back to the original topic of the email, I just downloaded the 06/23 PPC isos (both desktop and alternate). The desktop hung on me the same as on 06/21 and 06/22. I put my 1GB chip back into my system thinking that having only 256MB RAM might be the problem, but it still hangs with 1GB RAM.

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] [PPC] Saucy Daily Build for 6/21 hangs on Plymouth Text Screen

2013-06-22 Thread James King
, at 9:03 PM, James King wrote: I downloaded the image and burned it with Xfburn on the Mac Mini. Booting up from the CD is typical with yaboot: I put in the radeon line to boot to the Mini. Then the Plymouth text screen starts, first with a cyan background, then after about 3-4 minutes

[Lubuntu-qa] [PPC] Saucy Daily Build for 6/21 hangs on Plymouth Text Screen

2013-06-21 Thread James King
I downloaded the image and burned it with Xfburn on the Mac Mini. Booting up from the CD is typical with yaboot: I put in the radeon line to boot to the Mini. Then the Plymouth text screen starts, first with a cyan background, then after about 3-4 minutes it switches to a black background and

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] About 'gnome-disk-utility' as a default app

2013-06-18 Thread James King
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Erick Brunzell lbsol...@yahoo.com wrote: On 06/18/2013 05:26 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: On 2013-06-18 09:18, Erick Brunzell wrote: I've always wondered why we, or any OS, would include a potentially dangerous app in the Accessories column of a menu. IMHO Red

[Lubuntu-qa] [PPC] Thunderbird as PPC Email client?

2013-06-18 Thread James King
I'm actually not sure how important it is to have a dedicated email client. I suspect many people are using their web browsers for email access at Gmail, Yahoo, etc. But since sylpheed isn't available for PPC, and Thunderbird is, it might be the solution for the PPC side if there is space on the

[Lubuntu-qa] [PPC] yaboot video options

2013-06-15 Thread James King
Hey, Just curious: I know that there's some text when you boot up from the LubuntuPPC disk that suggests a video option if the default doesn't work. At least on my Mac Mini, that option live video=ofonly doesn't work either. I have to remember to type: live video=radeonfb:1024x768-32@60. Is it

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Compiling Xombrero for PPC

2013-05-28 Thread James King
The source package I tried unsuccessfully (I'm very new at this, so I'm sure someone else will have a better chance at success) to compile is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/xxxterm/files/xombrero-1.5.0.tgz/download There are anonymous source packages available at

[Lubuntu-qa] Fwd: Compiling Xombrero for PPC

2013-05-27 Thread James King
I accidentally sent this privately, along with a second message. Oops. -- Forwarded message -- From: James King jlki...@gmail.com Date: Mon, May 27, 2013 at 3:42 PM Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Compiling Xombrero for PPC To: Phill Whiteside phi...@ubuntu.com Phill, you