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A store customer brought in a G4 box he had purchased. The hard drive was dead (the dreaded click). I replaced the 30GB drive with another 30 GB drive, and left an installation running. There are some interesting issues about this box. It is apparently one of the first towers to go to the store. The customer left his contact information on a yelow post-it on the top of the machine. He had the price sticker, but not the receipt. Martin suggested that the store might be able to find the receipt based on the customer's name. | A store customer brought in a G4 box he had purchased. The hard drive was dead (the dreaded click). I replaced the 30GB drive with another 30 GB drive, and left an installation running. There are some interesting issues about this box. It is apparently one of the first towers to go to the store. The customer left his contact information on a yelow post-it on the top of the machine. He had the price sticker, but not the receipt. Martin suggested that the store might be able to find the receipt based on the customer's name. | ||
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| + | [http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-3723.html http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-3723.html] says that for X on older G3 machines with ATI/R128 graphics, Depth 16 works better, fps-wise. The article is three years old, but the suggestion is worth looking into. | ||
Revision as of 09:47, 7 April 2007
04Apr07
G3 iBook
Last week a very nice G3 iBook came in, fully functional, with an airport card, 320 MB/6G. Loren refurbished it,
upgrading the hard drive, I think, and installing Ubuntu Edgy. I worked on it a little today, finishing up
the details:
- added clock and volume control to the top panel
- added window-hider, window-selector and trash-can to the bottom panel
why didn't they get added automatically at installation?
- modprobed snd-powermac to add the sound device.
why wasn't a sound device detected at installation? modprobe detected a DACA device; volume-control shows only Master control but it doesn't connect to the panel applet volume control;
- finished the update
There are a few things that still need to be done.
- I don't think I added the workspace switcher to the bottom panel, and I didn't local-to-panel any of the added applets.
- The CD started skipping when playing a music CD with SoundJuicer, but not right away. I usually install gxine in that case, but didn't get to it yet. I don't remember getting the specs on the CD; maybe it's not 24x.
- I don't know whether or not Loren checked the battery life. That needs to be done.
Loren and I talked about setting a price of $150 for this machine. Loren said he had talked to (Dave?) about it, too.
Hazel is looking for a machine
An artist named Hazel Malone stopped by this afternoon to ask some questions about Macs. She is looking for a machine to do what I gather is graphics/animation related. She mentioned wanting to run some specific Mac software, and asked whether the machines we sell would run Mac OS 10.5. My answer was something like 'No/I don't really know'. Later I looked it up and found out that Apple apparently has published statements tot he effect that
10.5 will run on G4 and later models. Hazel left a contact number with me, and I taped a notice on the wall. I should probably put the number in Loren's notebook. I told Hazel we would contact her when a likely machine came in, and that we could not provide any Mac OS at all.
Tech support: replacing a Hard Drive
A store customer brought in a G4 box he had purchased. The hard drive was dead (the dreaded click). I replaced the 30GB drive with another 30 GB drive, and left an installation running. There are some interesting issues about this box. It is apparently one of the first towers to go to the store. The customer left his contact information on a yelow post-it on the top of the machine. He had the price sticker, but not the receipt. Martin suggested that the store might be able to find the receipt based on the customer's name.
07apr07
G3 color depth suggestion'
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-3723.html says that for X on older G3 machines with ATI/R128 graphics, Depth 16 works better, fps-wise. The article is three years old, but the suggestion is worth looking into.