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[Jose Lopez <josewendy1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Str8bs,Keith, Lars, I don't want to interupt your work here, I just have
a quick question that maybe one of you can answer. I have that Imac G3
333.33 Mhz with 256mb of ram that I got going last week. The question is,
Is there a yaboot perameter that can get a live cd going? or is it just
wish for me and have to install the alternate in order to do testing?.

I'm just trying to see if i can do any good with the G3 for Lubuntu ppc.
Thanks
Jose


On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:10 PM, <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> HI Str8bs,
>
> The installation from the Live CD (copied to a USB flash drive) went
> normally. I entered a successful test case on the iso tracker web page. I
> used the same boot parameters as with 13.04. That is:
>
> live video=radeonfb:1920x1080-32@60 snd-powermac.blacklist=yes
>
> The machine specs are listed on the test results page, and are:
>
> http://pastebin.com/mkniESPZ
>
> Basically, a 500MHz Powermac G4 AGP Graphics (Sawtooth model), 2GB RAM,
> ATI Radeon 9000 Pro video card (Apple version).
>
>
> keith-z
>
>
> On May 14, 2013, at 10:39 AM, Str8bs wrote:
>
>  Hi Lars,
>>
>> Does booting with: "Linux snd-powermac.pinkelephant=yes" get any
>> further before errors?
>>
>> I don't have a PPC with ATI/Radeon to test, but I have some "theories."
>>
>> At anyone:
>> Please advise the best communication forum to work through this as I
>> don't want to unnecessarily spam this list.
>>
>> For now, I would leave X out of it. IE: Just see if we can get by one
>> error "fixing recursive..." Whether or not it successfully boots to
>> the desktop may be a separate issue.
>>
>> Can you get beyond error or further before the error with:
>> 1. Linux single
>> 2. Linux single snd-powermac.pinkelephant=yes (Or
>> snd-powermac.blacklist=yes if you don't have a warped sense of humor.
>> :) )
>> 3. Linux single nomodeset
>>
>>
>> If #1 fails, but both 2 and 3 get further, that would help confirm
>> snd-powermac is conflicting with drm video drivers.
>> Note that comment number 78 in the bug is actually a "good" sign of
>> getting further, but indicates a secondary video issue.
>>
>> If anyone with this problem has an existing installed with live
>> video=radeonfb:yada yada, could you confirm if removing the appends
>> from yaboot recreates the error or not?
>>
>> If anyone who has the exact error could note their video card in the
>> bug report, I think it would be helpful to identify the hardware
>> affected since it doesn't seem to be all. Attaching lspci -nnvv would
>> be even better. Note that some AMD64 users are reporting the same
>> problem.
>> snd-powermac is complicating the issue, but the root cause could be
>> framebuffer conflicts or i2c with specific cards. I think the latter
>> would need a bug for each hardware set upstream.
>>
>> I'm no expert, but enjoy digging through logs and helping
>> identify/define hardware problems. If anyone wants to work on this,
>> I'd be happy to help.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Str8
>>
>> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've taken a quick look at the disc image for the Alternate PPC
>>> installer.
>>>
>>> http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/**qatracker/milestones/270/**
>>> builds/44083/testcases/1438/**results/<http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/270/builds/44083/testcases/1438/results/>
>>>
>>> One of the first things to get past will be bug 1066435 powerpc: "Fixing
>>> recursive fault but reboot is needed!"  The installation seems to go
>>> smoothly, but the system fails during booting.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> /Lars
>>>
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