Dear Digger, I have just successfully installed a preliminary version of Gutsy, but it was not without problems.
First of all, the CD that I had here was from 2007-07 and it didn't work. With the CD from the version 2007-08-08, I was able to go on yaboot, type "livre break=top" and I was dropped into a shell command. There, as you said, I had similar problems with those that you did with ide: /proc/devices doesn't list the ide module loaded and /proc/ide doesn't exist. After manually loading ide-core, the CD starts to spin up and, when I exit the shell, the installation *now* goes as intended up to X being launched and having gnome loaded. Unfortunately it seems that gnome- settings-daemon insists to die (unless I freeze it with C-z) and the general installation went well, despite four things: 1 - I don't get any sound because, apparently, both OSS and ALSA modules get loaded. I could get the computer to produce sound (beeps on the command line) removing some modules (I forgot which, as I am not using that notebook right now). Despite this, the gnome volume adjuster couldn't be loaded when I got to the Desktop loaded. :-( It *seems* to be segfaulting (but I can inspect that more cautiously). 2 - I don't get hardware acceleration (saw that via glxinfo), but I did when I used Debian proper (at least when I downgraded the number of colors of the desktop to 16 bit per pixel). The card is a ATI Rage 128 Mobility M3 with 8MB, with AGP x2, and the notebook's LCD has a resolution of 1024x768. 3 - I couldn't get in any way my wireless adaptor to work (which is the only option that I have to use the Network when I am not at home). I tried loading the rt2x00usb, but it didn't work, unfortunately. I tried loading the ieee80211_*wep and siblings, but iwconfig only told me that none of the adaptors present (lo and eth2) didn't have wireless extensions (eth2 is the proper ethernet card). 4 - Upon finally installing Ubuntu and booting, I get dropped on the initramfs prompt again. :-( Well, that's the status right now, but I am slightly more hopeful since it at least installs (with quite some handholding, but it works). BTW, the kernel that is distributed is 2.6.22-6, if I am not mistaken. Thanks for any help, Rogério Brito. -- gutsy doesn't boot completely on powerpc https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/126146 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
