Don't forget to use the boot parameters for your card. To boot the live dvd for that gfx card requires this:
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Lubuntu 16.04 Remix (updated)
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Well I mentioned Ubuntu, Debian and others still got the same black screen after the boot strap ( scrolling system lines)
Nice. I had found that info on the ubuntu powerpc wiki. I have to use that param with my fx5200, otherwise black screen, or almost as bad, a funky 8 color very low res display.
Hi, just installed the 16.04 version 4 on my iMac G4, and I've got to say I'm impressed with the performance. Now I can actually use MODERN webpages (for the most part). Much faster and easier to use than 12.04 as well in my opinion.
How can I get the resource overlay on my desktop that 12.04 had? I'd like to see what exactly it's doing.
Thanks, and great job. If I knew where you were (and the world wasn't ending) I'd buy you coffee.
How can I get the resource overlay on my desktop that 12.04 had? I'd like to see what exactly it's doing.
Thanks, and great job. If I knew where you were (and the world wasn't ending) I'd buy you coffee.
@ProCat : That's unfortunately a known issue on some machines with certain versions of ubuntu/debian. Ubuntu 16 server edition should fix that (but you lose all the remix modifications and additions). Otherwise try 12.04 remix or macbuntu which are linked on the first post.
@CYB3RBYTE : Thanks. There is a menu shortcut for conky, otherwise type: conky in the run box (menu -> run).
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@CYB3RBYTE : Thanks. There is a menu shortcut for conky, otherwise type: conky in the run box (menu -> run).
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@ProCat : Hmm. I only have a couple g4/g5 machines. Maybe someone with a g3 could chime in. My only other suggestion is try the Void live CD and see if that boots, or gets the same freeze. Maybe it'll shed light on the issue.
@CYB3RBYTE : Geany is quite nice. Its what I prefer to use anyway. I'm away from home so i can't look, but in system settings or prefs there is a menu to enable/disable startup programs. You can add conky there, or system-wide through /etc/xdg/autostart
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@CYB3RBYTE : Geany is quite nice. Its what I prefer to use anyway. I'm away from home so i can't look, but in system settings or prefs there is a menu to enable/disable startup programs. You can add conky there, or system-wide through /etc/xdg/autostart
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I have lost the yastboot as default boot partition, and under StartupDisk the Linux Partition is not available. Can I set the default boot disk somewhere under Linux? If not, can anyone help me with the OF command?
You should still be able to boot it by holding the 'option' key at power up. Select the drive with penguin on it. Once booted you can 'sudo ybin -v' to make yaboot the default boot loader again. This usually happens when you choose a startup disk from within osx, it will overwrite yaboot.
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Looks like 1) has everything but the kitchen sink. Bummer. Was worth a shot. I'm not aware of another way to reverse the touchpad scroll. There may still be a way with enough duckdukgo-ing.
2) Ah sorry. I thought you meant for right click. For system wide changes that probably requires something like xbindkeys or xloadkeys. Nothing i'm familiar with, but should point you in the right direction for searching the web.
3) The inxi -G output confirms 2d is working using software rasterizer and the radeon framebuffer driver. Myself and @Dronecatcher prefer this driver for much better video playback. However if the tearing (i've not seen this on my mini, pb, or g5) is bad, we may need to try enabling the 3d driver and see if that works better on your system. Let me know if the tearing is bothersome and i'll walk you through it.
4/5) I don't see that on my PB, so it might be machine related. You can however (if you havent already) install the updated 3.13 kernel i included on the iso, which does have much better freq scaling than the stock kernel (stock kernel never scaled on my PB).
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Hi @wicknix, I've found solutions to a couple of the issues, so figured I should share them here.
Also, I still can't thank you enough for your awesome work on this distro. It is truly fantastic stuff!
1) Execute the following to reverse the touchpad scroll (found solution here: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=86724)
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echo "pointer = 1 2 3 5 4 7 6 8 9 10 11 12" > ~/.Xmodmap && xmodmap .Xmodmap2) To set up Mac keyboard shortcuts, I ended up using autokey. This doesn't completely swap the Ctrl and Super keys, but rather just lets me set up custom shortcuts that send a different key combination when I enter the shortcut. For example, when I press Super+c, it sends Ctrl+c. This mostly covers it - the only place that its annoying is I need to remember not to use it in the terminal.
- sudo apt-get install gtk-autokey
- create a file: ~/.config/lxsession/Lubuntu/autostart
- Add a single line to that file with text "autokey"
- Reboot
- The Autokey (blue "A") should appear in the taskbar near the clock.
- Open Autokey and set up desired rules (example in attached screenshot).
The tearing isn't that bad, just didn't expect to see any if acceleration was working. Can't remember exactly where now, but I think I remember seeing you post a glxgears output that was much higher from either Void or Fienix in another thread. What makes the difference there? (or am I just misremembering?)EDIT: Found the post: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/void-linux-for-powerpc.2129245/post-28474614
I added a screenshot of running glxgears the same way on Macbuntu. Should I be expecting comparable values to what you got in Void? Also, I notice that the CPU pegs at 100% (with frequency scaled to max) with that running. I wouldn't expect that to happen if it was drawing with the GPU, but maybe my expectation is wrong?
4) That one's still happening...haven't figured it out yet.
5) You guessed it. It was the kernel. I had already updated, but it was overwritten when I updated. I had to manually recreate the symlinks for vmlinux and initrd.img, and the frequency scaling went back to working as expected.
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Glad you like it. Thanks for the touchpad and auto-key info. I'll add it to the readme.txt when i get around to another release. As for glxgears, your output looks good. You can also try "vblank_mode=0 glxgears" which should report roughly 400fps-800fps (as it bypasses the vsync of your monitor which is typically 55-70hz). Your cpu is spiking because you are using the default framebuffer driver. Basically you are using software to render 2d/3d graphics, hence the spike. This is normal and nothing to be alarmed about. Enabling "true" 3d will cure that, but at some weird costs. Colors can become reversed, your computer can lock up tight, etc. Sticking with the radeonfb driver is the safe and stable choice.
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That was what I expected, based on your post in the Void thread, but if you look at my screenshot above, that's what I did, and was still only getting ~55fps.
Thanks for explaining that.
Hi, I tried to-create-a-bootable-usb-drive-etc on an IDE HD in a USB+FW caddy following above instructions, but my mac-fdisk made apple partition table wasn't recognised on a gentoo64 vm (although it created it ok) .. (ls /dev just showed me sdb, not sdb1,2,3) I couldn't mkfs ext2 on it, so I tried it on my debian64 vm...
My debian64 vm didn't like sdb3 (although ls /dev shows sdb1,2,3) and said it didn't exist, this after seemingly successfully mkfs-ing ext2 on sdb3. GParted shows the partitions as expected, i.e. ?/?/ext2...so that's ok.
So it looks ok but I can't mount sdb3 to copy an iso to it. Curses! Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
The Flash / Boot From USB Drive guide under the Guides section in The PowerPC Linux Wiki may be useful to you.
Ta for that, dd-ing is much easier than doing all those pesky partition setup. I burnt the macbuntu iso onto my magnetic disk and OF booted fine, although it whinged about
Bootstrap partition type is wrong: “Apple_HFS”
type should be: “Apple_Bootstrap”
still booted ok ... anyhow all great and very smart looking and snappy, wow my old TiBook 1GHz hasn't moved so fast since OS 8.6 ! Thanks a bunch for this...but the installer didn't seem to be doing much after the first try. Is this just because I'm doing it through a USB 1 input? Also the network manager didn't start the second time reboot. Sorry, I haven't read the whole thread yet, I will tomorrow.
Glad you like it. As for the installer... i'd recommend installing offline (not connected to the net, as it can cause hangs), then once the installer finishes, reboot. After reboot plug in your ethernet, or connect to wifi, then in terminal run: sudo apt-get update then sudo apt-get upgrade. Once both of those are finished, reboot once more. Now there should be nothing left to do but enjoy your newly installed OS (and check the readme.txt on the cd for tips and hints for blocking ads, playing youtube etc.)
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Thanks. 'S all good man. Open Firmware was more straightforward than I remembered from a few years ago and I managed to shoehorn macubuntu onto my tibook HD with two Leopards, a Tiger and a MintPPC. I did what you said and installation was bugless. Afterwards I connected, apt-upped and all ok. Today there's nothing left to apt-up but Update Manager is hassling me to upgrade to Lubuntu 14.04.6 LTS. Would this be a Bad Thing? In the past I've regretted jumping straight onto updates and upgrades and I'm pleased at the way it's looking so far, having revived my old G4 (which I prefer in build quality to my other old banger, a 2007 Santa Rosa), and don't want it to end in tears.