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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