Originally Posted by
este.el.paz
Gents:
Since the conversation seems to have moved on to 14.04 here, I'll post my ersatz testing of a Lubun daily build on my G4 iBook & iMac here. I sent this to the Lubun mailing list, but that was like the sound of one hand clapping . . . . Portions of that email pasted below:
I burned the daily build from today 3/28/14 of Lu 14.04 . . . and it booted up OK in the iBook, we got the 14.04 splash screen, it showed a "b43 error" for the wifi, got the mouse, and a desktop with the toolbars. Only problem is/was desktop image was grainy resolution--when I tried to change the desktop image all of them were low resolution. I opened Xterm and the window was fine and I ran "lsmod"--no "radeon" & certainly no "nv" showed there. The system time was wrong so I wanted to set that before I opened my webmail, when I launched the "Time and Date settings" app there was just the frame with "Time and Date" across the top, and showing the Xterm data inside it. "User settings" was the same--empty frame; but "customize look and feel" was OK. Synaptic had the frame problem, but Firefox did not, the window showed the web stuff and I got to a Ubuntu page.
This morning I tried to boot the system in my iMac, first using live video=ofonly and got the 1/3 green and 2/3 black screen; and I rebooted and pressed tab and entered the same but added something like "driverupdatesppc" and something "check powerpc" and got a thin sliver of purple and the rest black . . . . This problem is well known to guys like "rsavage" and others working with the iMac, and there are some terms like "forcenv" that I have buried somewhere in notes from a year ago when I was trying to get the system running on the iMac, but no time.
The 800MHz G4 iMac runs best on the "nv" driver for the Nvidia card, it doesn't seem to "run right out of the box" as is claimed, second best is the what "fb" driver? I heard that the nv driver is no longer available to "retro-install" as I had to do with my 12.04 install; I'm thinking it might not run 14.04.
But, on the positive side, yes, the iBook with radeon driver ran pretty well on the Live DVD just hitting "return" and letting it do its thing. Only problem seems to be that some windows are not being rendered and others are. But, still overall the font rendering was a tad rough, I guess I usually adjust that in preferences . . . which did render OK in its window.
OK, that's my "report" on my experience with a daily build, as Al or someone said, "It's not quite ready." If there is something I can run in this build again for someone I can do that, but, time is limited; yesterday I was somewhere where the .iso could be downloaded in 8 mins, whereas at home that would take an hour, etc.
e.e.p.
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