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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys,

some of you will know Adam who has been looking after a lot of ppc stuff
(ojordan), he asked that I emplore you guys to read fully the links at the
bottom of the ppc testing page[1]. As you will realise when you finish the
below, this has now taken on a much greater importance.



> Please remind people again to read the PowerPC documentation.  The Ubuntu
> PowerPC documentation (the FAQ and KnownIssues pages) is the most
> up-to-date and comprehensive of any PowerPC distro. Failure to read the
> documentaion is wasting their time, the time of others (importantly Colin
> Watsons),  causing them to repeatedly miss bugs and generally giving a
> skewed account of the state of ppc.
>
> There are genuine bugs with the PowerPC installs that could be solved with
> a few minutes of Colin Watsons time (the patches are lined up), yet it is
> hard to identify these out of the white noise that is the lubuntu-qa team's
> bugs.  There are also PowerPC Lubuntu specific problems and these have not
> been addressed or even identified by the qa team.
>
> Over the weekend I cleaned up all the bug reports the lubuntu team had
> made, merged duplicates etc.  I've explained why they are not installing
> and how they can install.  I've put forward the action I think should be
> taken to resolve the problem, but since Lubuntu is doing the testing they
> should be deciding what to do.  Nobody from the team has grasped this.
>
> >>>i really need someone to help me with doing it all by usb.
> >>>that would make it possible for me to do this easily on more than one
> machine.
> >>>i can't seem to find anything that isn't as old as hardy and i'm not
> sure it's relevant.
> >>>openfirmware is too buggy to rely upon for usb boot. believe me, i've
> tried.
>
> Comments like this from wxl/spam_forwards just show he doesn't read the
> FAQ.  There is a large section on USB booting.
>
> >>>Ok! When there is a kernel upgrade the symlink files (vmlinux,
> >>>initrd.img and initrd.img.old) are placed to "/" and not to "/boot"
> >>>(where they should be!).
> Again, the above as reported by UH was a **huge** bug in 12.04, but the
> Lubuntu team are oblivious to it.  It was fixed in the end, but if you
> installed from alpha/beta then you need to alter a config file.  It is
> documented on the Known Issues page.
>
> On a happier note, this guy is very pleased with Lubuntu
> http://powerpcliberation.blogspot.co.uk/ , so all your effort (and
> putting up with grumpy people like myself) is worth it.
>
> I've updated the PowerPC known issues page with the radeon problem and
> solutions.  I've gone over the options (again) and I think the current
> kernel config setup is the best.  The boot message on the CDs could do with
> improving, but there is just no ideal setup.  The kernel as I understand it
> (could do with somebody who know what they are talking about on this)
> reverts to 8 bit framebuffer to save memory for KMS (it didn't used to do
> this).  The only improvement could be is if the radeonfb framebuffer was
> set automatically at a higher colour depth (like it used to be).
>
> It's down to you guys to take over the Known Issues and Faq pages.  I am
> not doing 12.10 testing.  I just don't have the time (or put it another way
> I should be spending time doing other things).  I need to finish building
> my house, I REALLY need to put it back together what with winter coming.
>
> All the best for 12.10
>
> Adam



Regards,

Phill.
1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Testing/PPC%26Mac64

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