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Comment 23 for bug 1377878

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Fritz Hudnut (este-el-paz) wrote :

As per Boris' suggestion:

Boris:

Yes, that did work . . . but, I had to add "live-nosplash-powerpc video+ofonly radeon.agpmode=-1" . . . . When I just used the "video=ofonly radeon.agpmode=-1" I got "unable to open file, Invalid device."

 With that AGP boot parameter the 14.10 livedvd it is working; window dragging isn't exactly smooth, but it follows the mouse and no freezes . . . it's fine. It got me into a clean GUI with the proper display refresh rates showing (as opposed to having to use the "radeonfb w/ 1024x768-32@60" parameters) and for the most part everything worked; certainly the GUI did not "freeze" like it did when using those "radeonfb" parameters.

Only problem with AGP was that setting the time did not "hold" in "manual" and "synching with internet servers" did not work. Otherwise, for my iBook G4 with radeon driver . . . it "worked."

My build for the LiveDVD is 10/16/14 (American system) . . . didn't check any more recent builds since several of us found this "freezing desktop" problem . . . and the general languishing of intention to support PPC, etc.