@IA: Thanks for the reply, yes, LXDE should work as XFCE is doing fine. Getting the machine up to 2GB RAM seems to have been very good for increasing functionality. I will get around to looking at the formal testing using it as far as "listing the specs" of it . . . but that could be a short list or longer depending on who is asking. What specs would you be wanting to know?
F On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 3:30 AM, Istimsak Abdulbasir <[email protected]> wrote: > LXDE should work fine with a 450MHz CPU. Won't be bleeding edge but > operational. Do you know the specs of your AGP? You should definitely list > your PC specs when testing. The more hardware Ubuntu can be tested on the > better agile it becomes. > On Mar 22, 2015 8:57 PM, "Fritz Hudnut" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Folks/PPC testing team: >> >> Just staying in touch, making this "informal" report for now. The last >> couple of months I've been reviving my wife's old PowerMac G4 "Sawtooth" . >> . . new HD, new screen, and yesterday I replaced the old optical drive that >> only booted CDs with one that will boot DVDs . . . added some RAM. Then >> booted up a copy of U-MATE PPC, no boot params . . . and several minutes >> later I was into a good res desktop and stuff worked. >> >> I then tried a Feb 6??? iso of Vivid PPC that I believe booted with the >> "agp" params OK in my iBook . . . and we slowly (450 MHz processor) got to >> a desktop with the Lu background symbol . . . but kind of rough res images, >> and just the trash can and "install" icons on the desktop . . . icon ID >> words were not read-able and the "LXDE" launcher applet never appeared. >> While I was trying to figure out how to set the system time it seemed like >> the system and my screen "went to sleep" . . . screen went black and the >> power button turned orange from its active blue. Could not revive the >> situation . . . shut down with the power button. >> >> Rebooted the MATE DVD to see if it would work, and once again after quite >> some time on the splash window . . . back into a working liveDVD. So, this >> is a "new" machine for me, haven't done a bunch of linux installs on it to >> know whether or not what boot params would be needed; coincidentally or not >> it happens to be the "AGP" Sawtooth model. A month or so back I had a CD >> with Xu 12.04 that I was able to boot and install from the old optical >> drive, no boot params needed for that, very simple install. I would stay >> with 12 but, as we know it will soon be "unsupported" . . . will probably >> just go to 14.04 for it anyway, but does seem like there might be something >> else I need for 15 on this '00 model machine. 12 doesn't offer a working >> "suspend" at this time, perhaps now that I have 2 GB RAM I might try to >> expand the swap and see if that helps the ability to suspend without >> shutting down to revive . . . . >> >> That's the latest in my PPC testing efforts, pretty sure this unit will >> not be on the qa list, but I do plan on running it for awhile so there may >> be time to test stuff out "formally" on it. >> >> F >> >> -- >> Lubuntu-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users >> >>
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