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Re: [PPC] Kubuntu

 

Lars,

Saw symptom you describe in unofficial LMDE KDE port once on AMD64 and it
was slideshow problem. Workaround there was:
sudo mv /usr/share/live-installer/slideshow/index.html
/usr/share/live-installer/slideshow/index.html.bak
and then start the live installer

Might be worth noting that many PPC users are having to boot with video=
parameters that force non-accelerated graphic driver.
I would expect KDE to be very slow in this case unless it is a G5 dual or
better. YMMV

If no installer logs in /var/log, I have no other ideas. :)

Regards,
Str8

-----Original Message-----
From: Lubuntu-qa
[mailto:lubuntu-qa-bounces+str8bslinux=gmail.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Lars Noodén
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 5:08 AM
To: Lubuntu QA
Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-qa] [PPC] Kubuntu

On 4/24/13 1:03 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> On 2013-04-24 10:36, Lars Noodén wrote:
>> On 4/23/13 1:15 PM, Ho Wan Chan wrote:
>>> Sorry we are currently respinning. The PowerPC Kubuntu image should 
>>> appear soon.
>>>
>>> Thank you all for helping us test!
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Howard Chan (smartboyhw)
>>> Kubuntu member
>>
>> Thanks for getting the respin up there.  I do hope there will be a 
>> PPC Kubuntu for 13.04
>>
>> I went through the tests this morning and could not get the graphical 
>> installer to run to completion.  It would just fail without warning 
>> or error messages at various intervals, I tried several reboots and 
>> within those several times each with the installer.  Each time it 
>> just quit quietly.  On the Live session, rekonq wouldn't run nor 
>> could the system sucessfully install the needed debugging tools to file a
report on that.
>>
>> If there's another respin I might be able to try later tonight, or 
>> definitely tomorrow.
>>
>> Maybe it works on different hardware.
>>
>> Regards,
>> /Lars
>>
>>
> How much RAM is there? My experience tells me that the alternate 
> installer works better when there is less than 768 MB RAM (but this is 
> with the i386 version, not PPC). The symptoms with the desktop version 
> (graphical installer) are the same as you describe.

I guess there's 1 GB (1024700 kB).  The full specs are here:
	http://people.ubuntu.com/~larsnooden/Hw/g4.ti.hwinfo

I've not had a problem like that with the Lubuntu installer, but that is
clearly different.  Even though the Kubuntu installer quits quietly, there
might be a place were the errors are reported to a log.  Any ideas?

Regards,
/Lars

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