Hi Sean, well done! Great to here that both machines are up and running.
If you are happy to set up SSH access to both machines I can log in and use them to generate Debian packages for Linux/ppc to add to the v1.6.0-rc1 official release kits. As we discussed Yesterday, there may be a good few old PowerPC MacBooks and towers around the amateur radio community that could do good service as shack computers rather than gathering dust in the attic ;) 73 Bill G4WJS. On 18/11/2015 17:26, Sean Sharkey wrote: > Gentlemen, > > Following some extensive testing yesterday by Bill it soon became apparent > that there might be an inherent issue with QTimer and Lubuntu 14.04 > (which I was using as a testbed on the MacMini G4), and which was preventing > WSJTX from going to Tx. In short, the QTimer function would appear to be > broke. > > This morning I did a clean install and upgraded to Ubuntu Mate 15.10 PowerPC. > I’m pleased to say that as we speak I have a fully working version of > jtsdk-nix-2.0.16 and WSJTX v1.6.1 r6124 running on a MacMini with a G4 (32 > bit) PowerPC processor. > > As you may recall that would now be two of the PPC platforms successfully > running WSJTX v1.6.1, the G5 (64 bit) IMac and the G4 MacMini. > > I still have a little tweaking to do regarding hardware / linux / sound > setting but nothing that is an issue with WSJTX. > > If it is helpful I’d be happy to put together a PowerPC install read me file > detailing what I had to do to get all of this working. > > Thank you once again for all of the hard work getting these programmes > together, it’s greatly appreciated from this end. > > > Kind regards, > > > > Sean. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
