Comment 15 for bug 1040544

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Ron Mitchell (rm2892) wrote : Re: [Bug 1040544] Re: Installer dialog does not come up on PPC

Did not work here Greg. Had to go back to my <radeonfb:yada yada>

Wierd or what?

Ron M.

On Wed, 03 Oct 2012 04:19:19 -0000
Greg Faith <email address hidden> wrote:

> Okay I have the ATI Radeon RV250 on this PowerBook G4.
>
> I can get to a clean live session with the following kernel command line
>
> live video=radeonfb:1024x768-32@60
>
> I can then make a clean install. but have no obvious graphics module in
> lsmod.
>
> sudo modprobe radeon does get the module running and the helpers
> modules.
>
> On reboot ( as expected it is gone)
>
> sudo su
> echo radeon >> /etc/modules
> exit
>
> and i have bootable install with the radeon module and helpers in lsmod.
> Hope this might help.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1040544
>
> Title:
> Installer dialog does not come up on PPC
>
> Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> The graphical installer fails to bring up a usable box for
> installation. See the attached screenshot. This is from the PPC
> Desktop image from 20120821
>
> http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/219/builds/21606/downloads
>
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Ron Mitchell <email address hidden>