Paul,
Argh! Posted directly to you instead of the list again. I've requested
the list be put on Gmane, which should stop me doing this...
It would be a lot simpler to have the xorg.conf in the home directory of
the lubuntu user. That way the amount of typing could be kept down to:
sudo mv xorg.conf /etc/X11
sudo service lightdm restart
However, taking a step back, it would be even better to have the
commands in a shell script somewhere on the path so that 1) it doesn't
appear in the lubuntu user's home directory, and 2) just typing
something like g3imac would run the bash script. I've not checked what
the path is on the liveCD, but presented as a possible solution to
whoever compiles the liveCD, an xorg.conf and a two line bash script
shouldn't add too much to the space used on the liveCD. As such it
should just be a papercut fix, with maybe the echoing of the hint to try
typing g3imac if the liveCD boots to a command line. Any clues are going
to be an improvement over just dumping the user at the command prompt
without any sign of why they are there. Let the compiler of the liveCD
decide where to put the xorg.conf. What we need to do is do everything
we can think of to make sure that this fix would work for all G3
machines that need it.
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JimP
On 06/03/12 22:27, Paul Gorski wrote:
Jim
No problem, but it looks like someone beat you to your great idea.
http://mac.linux.be/files/xorg/imac6.txt
(and imac1-5.txt files)
are all variations on the xorg.conf theme.
something like yours, but
sudo mv imac6.txt /etc/X11/xorg.conf
What would the proper command and path be if we simply put those files on the
CD-ROM, and didn't use wget?
sudo cp /cdrom/imac6.txt
sudo mv imac6.txt /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Sincerely,
Paul Gorski
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Price<[email protected]>
To: lubuntu-qa<[email protected]>
Sent: Tue, Mar 6, 2012 2:57 pm
Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Mac G3 testing - desktop .iso
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.
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