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Where have I been for a week?  Working on Disk Replication, memory testing and disk test/wipe, mainly.  The inflow was relatively low during that time. I did a little with the '''smartmontools''' package, which I think should probably become a standard part of disk testing.  I use it when wiping/testing the hard drives in the Mac Build area.
 
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Script [[Mac Build Scripts#genMacDisk.sh|genMacDisk.sh]] works, creating a Ubuntu Edgy bootable hard drive that looks pretty much like the one created by the Ubuntu installer.  I don't think it covers all of the PowerMac tower boot-device configurations.  It might bebetter to leave that for a post-creation step.  I'll have to think about that somemore.
 
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''G4 Powerbook''<br>
 
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Audio does not seem to be configuring during installation on the G4/700 flat-panel and the G4 Powerbook. [http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2005-June/023998.html This] forum article suggests a fix.
 
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The 800MHz G4 Powerbook battery seems to be pretty much shot.  Tests showed battery life to be about 6 minutes.  I asked Dave to leave it plugged in overnight in the Black Hole to see if prolonged charging would have any effect.
 
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The CD drive may actually be a SuperDrive, or CD-RW.  If it's using SCSI emulation, '''cdrecord --scanbus''' might find it.  I got the model number from '''/proc/ide/hd?''', which could be googled.
 
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''nVidia''<br>
 
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[http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=924 Here] is a forum article with a suggestion about installing '''6.10(Edgy)''' on systems with nVidia video controllers.  It is based on booting the LiveCD and changing '''xorg.conf'''.  I'm not sure I ever pursued the LiveCD install far enough to try this.  This is coming up again because Loren is working on the G4/700 Flat Panel machines with '''7.04(Feisty)''', which has problems of its own, and there are a couple of G4 PowerMac Quicksilver 733MHz machines that came in with nVidia contollers. I may have commented earlier that there were no nVidia drivers for PPC.  That would have been a misinterpretation of things I read.  It seems that nVidia (and ATI, too, reportedly) have not released the 3D driver versions for PPC, but the 2D versions work fine.  It's just a matter of convincing a PPC installation to use the driver correctly (hence the link mentioned above).
 

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