Re: ubuntu-15.04 PPC issues

2015-06-04 Thread Israel
On 06/04/2015 09:11 PM, Herminio Hernandez Jr wrote: Hello, Isreal What video card do you have on your iBook? If it is a radeon card did you try this live radeon.modeset=1 video=offb:off video=1024x768-32 video=radeonfb:off radeon.agpmode=-1? You are going to have Xorg issues on 15.04

Re: ubuntu-15.04 PPC issues

2015-06-04 Thread Herminio Hernandez Jr
Right now I am running 14.04 and it is working great for me. I am considering running 15.04 and 15.10 as linux containers. It looks like the Xorg issue kills the ubiquity installer when it tries to partition the disk or else I would dual boot. On Thu, 2015-06-04 at 21:24 -0500, Israel wrote: On

Re: ubuntu-15.04 PPC issues

2015-06-04 Thread Herminio Hernandez Jr
Hello, Isreal What video card do you have on your iBook? If it is a radeon card did you try this live radeon.modeset=1 video=offb:off video=1024x768-32 video=radeonfb:off radeon.agpmode=-1? You are going to have Xorg issues on 15.04 unfortunately. See this thread on the ubuntuforums. Also if you

Re: ubuntu-15.04 PPC issues

2015-06-04 Thread Israel
Hi Peter On 06/04/2015 08:14 AM, Peter Golis wrote: Hello Israel, Could you please summarize your problems? You had written about issue with accessing console using Ubuntu mini. Are you talking about Mac Mini, or Ubuntu Minimal installation? Did you had try to force ofonly for video

Re: ubuntu-15.04 PPC issues

2015-06-04 Thread Fritz Hudnut
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 4:51 AM, Israel israeld...@gmail.com wrote: My issue running Lubuntu (and Mini and Debian Jessie) on PPC was much larger than a sound issue. There is little I can do to even boot to anything coherent. I cannot even get to a console reliably to even begin to try to

Re: ubuntu-15.04 PPC issues

2015-06-04 Thread Peter Golis
Hello Gentleman, As was mentioned previousely, and as is written in PPC FAQ, better is to try load missing module.If that will not help, then there is need to try 12.04 Live with old PowerPC sound modules and check type of hardware together with /proc/cpuinfo for model type. From that type can

Re: ubuntu-15.04 PPC issues

2015-06-04 Thread Israel
Hi Peter, My issue running Lubuntu (and Mini and Debian Jessie) on PPC was much larger than a sound issue. There is little I can do to even boot to anything coherent. I cannot even get to a console reliably to even begin to try to modprobe, or mess with xorg, or any of those fine things that PPC

Re: ubuntu-15.04 PPC issues

2015-06-04 Thread Peter Golis
Hello Israel, Could you please summarize your problems?   You had written about issue with accessing console using Ubuntu mini. Are you talking about Mac Mini, or Ubuntu Minimal installation? Did you had try to force ofonly for video card during boot process?   You had written about issue with