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The main issue I had was no WiFI, but managed to sort it, so anything else was extra. It is not a deal breaker anyway, more of a luxury really. There seems to be some error message on boot as well that mentions i2c and after the installation others were evident.įor now I am going to start afresh with 14 and maybe give it a go from there. Nevertheless, I persevered and followed your instructions, but sadly it did not work. Thanks for your help, but in my impatience I upgraded from lubuntu 14 to 16 and that introduced several problems. Then use sudo with your favorite text editor (nano? vim?) to edit and save the /etc/modules file.
#UBUNTU FOR MAC POWERBOOK G4 INSTALL#
I believe you just need to install the libi2c-dev package.
#UBUNTU FOR MAC POWERBOOK G4 HOW TO#
The removal of snd_aoa from the was to address a sound issue.įor the keyboard backlight I *added* i2c-dev to the /etc/modules file.Īny chance you can elaborate how and where to get i2c-dev from and how to add it to the /etc/modules file please? (For a complete newbie). (this is where you fixed the Backlit issue)? But now where do I find for example this: Installed lubuntu 14.4 succesfully on my old powerbook, so far so good. I was using 13.10 in this post, and between that and the various chipsets these systems shipped with, there are a variety of solutions :) Thanks for clarifying the Lubuntu version. Kept trying the solution outlined here would continue to crash. I had to use:Īppend=”radeon.modeset=1 radeon.agpmode=-1″ I have an iBook G4, 14 inch, 1.42GHz with a Radeon 9550 card. Typo append=”quiet splash splash video=radeonfb:1024×7 pleia2 Wish I could have found this 3 hours ago… but WOOHOO. All the other common fixes did not work, but this configuration did. 2003 model) back to life with Lubuntu… you got the sound to work.
Thank you SO MUCH… Trying to bring a PowerBook G4 (Sept. Thanks, this is great info! I have an old “Titanium” G4 sitting on my shelf and now I’m inspired to load Linux on it. Both comments and pings are currently closed. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. This entry was posted on Friday, November 22nd, 2013 at 1:20 am and is filed under computers, tech, ubuntu planet.
#UBUNTU FOR MAC POWERBOOK G4 MANUAL#
I’m happy to learn that sensitivity problems I encountered with the touchpad in 12.04 have been resolved and I’m looking forward to loading it up with tests this cycle so maybe less manual labor will be required for the 14.04 release. The system isn’t exactly zippy, but with a gig of ram it’s quite usable, particularly for writing. I had manually rmmod & modprobed the modules to test and was finally able to run alsamixer to adjust the volume settings. I had to remove the snd_aoa entries from /etc/modprobe.d/ and then edit: /etc/modules
#UBUNTU FOR MAC POWERBOOK G4 TRIAL#
That won’t do!īack to the wiki, PowerPC FAQ: Why do I have no sound?Īfter a whole lot of trial and error, I learned that this bug was indeed my culprit. It turns out that most PowerBook G4s have sound working out of the box, but I got alsamixerĬannot open mixer: No such file or directoryĪnd no /proc/asound at all.
The trickiest part of this install was audio. That’s a job for the firmware-b43-installer package. Voila! No more crashes.Ġ001:10:12.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) I made a quick change to /etc/nf to swap out the video option:Īppend="quiet splash ` sudo ybin` and rebooted. I got my clue to what I should be using for video via this page. Unfortunately this later caused my installed system to lock up pretty quickly after booting it. The installer advised that if problems existed you could try passing the LiveCD a video option of “video=ofonly” which I did and then happily ran the installer. Here’s what I had to fix:įirst up, when I loaded up the Lubuntu LiveCD the graphics were a mess. I quickly learned that it’s one of the more finicky PowerBooks when it comes to sound, and my initial cleverness during install led me to have some graphical pain. This week I pulled my PowerBook G4 off the shelf and loaded up Lubuntu 13.10. New job! Wedding! I was much busier than anticipated, after loading up Lubuntu 12.04 on the PowerBook I didn’t have a whole lot of time to spend with it. My plan had been to load it up with Lubuntu, use it here and there and help out with ISO testing. In spite of being quite the nice machine for 2004, the poor PowerBook G4 had been long abandoned by Apple due to it’s PPC nature and this made me quite sad.
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The MacBook Pro now happily runs OSX, when we turn it on (mostly MJ uses it for photo processing). About a year ago I adopted a MacBook Pro and a PowerBook G4.
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