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[Jim Price <d1version@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul,

Sorry I accidentally sent an earlier version of this post directly to 
you email address.

Anyway, I got my iMac G3 working again and tested the following with the 
beta1 liveCD on my G3 iMac:

Boot from CD and wait until command prompt appears then type the 
following commands:
wget doiop.com/xorg.conf
sudo mv xorg.conf /etc/X11
sudo service lightdm restart

I ended up with working X, but still got the Software Centre error. I've 
set up doiop.com/xorg.conf from your example xorg.conf for me to test 
this. Ideally I suppose something equivalent to this could be done for 
the G3 iMac from the liveCD.

--
JimP

On 06/03/12 16:43, Paul Gorski wrote:
> Yes, lighdm and not gdm, but my point being we shouldn't have to do this manual entry. (And that this has been a known problem for a while.)
> The original note applies to "hacking" the live CD install.
> We'd just as well tell folks to use the alternate and modify the xorg.conf file.
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> What I do know is that there is a "fglrx error, module not found" when booting from the live CD on an iMac G3.
> Also, there is a frame buffer erro
> Most of the xorg.conf custom settings include: Option FBDev "false".
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> live video=ofonly  and live video live video=ofonly no splash, do not avoid these problems.
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> One, I'd like prevent the system from trying to load "fglrx" and two I'd like to disable the FBDev.
> It seems that by default FBDev is "on" or "true" for PowerPC, and this may cause a problem with the ATI Graphics in the iMac G3.
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> I have found some information that I am testing, and should be done testing tomorrow.
> Instead video=ofonly, changing some other video attributes.
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> I'll keep you posted.
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> Sincerely,
> Paul Gorski
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phill Whiteside<PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: UH<uhtlmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Gorski<paul@xxxxxxxxxxx>; lubuntu-qa<lubuntu-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tue, Mar 6, 2012 6:12 am
> Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Mac G3 testing - desktop .iso
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> Inthe case of lubuntu, it most likely is lighdm and not gdm. You good people with the kit can tell us and we can ensure any instructions are updated
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> Regards,
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> Phill.
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> On 6 March 2012 07:45, UH<uhtlmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
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> Shouldn't that be lightdm in place of gmd?
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> > > > . . .Use sudo killall -HUP gdm instead