Xubuntu PPC issues
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- Plan of Action for Finalizing the Linux PPC Project
- Fleshing out the Issues Matrix
- Filling in all cells
- Linking to existing documentation
- Identifying and developing documentation and procedures for all known issues
- Validating issues identified
- Developing long-term/robust fixes over hacks
- Developing Mac Build procedures, checklists
Issue Relevance Matrix
| G4 | G5 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| iBook | Powerbook | Mini | Lamp | Tower | iMac | Tower | |||||||
| 4,1 4,2 | other | 3,2 | 3,3 3,4 3,5 | 5,1 6,1 6,2 6,4 | 5,2 5,3 5,4 5,5 | 6,8 | 5,6 5,7 5,8 5,9 | 10,1 10,2 | |||||
| Video:Rage128 | Y | - | Y | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| Video:Nvidia | - | - | - | - | Y | - | Y | - | - | ||||
| Video:Radeon | - | Y | - | Y | - | Y | - | Y | Y | ||||
| Audio:snd-aoa | Y | Y | |||||||||||
| Wifi: b43 driver | |||||||||||||
| CPU scaling/ fan control | |||||||||||||
| Display sleep/suspend | |||||||||||||
| Trackpad: Right-click emulation | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |||||
| Trackpad: smooth appletouch driver | Y | ||||||||||||
| Battery monitor (module pmu_battery) | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |||||
Video
Audio
Wireless
BCM4306
The BCM4306 wireless card is a known troublemaker. However, the b43 driver has vastly improved over the last couple of years and should support this chip without issue. We'll just need to add the appropriate repository. Run the following in a terminal:
sudo -i cat << EOF >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/b43.list deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ precise multiverse deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ precise multiverse EOF apt-get update && apt-get purge -y bcmwl-kernel-source broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-source apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer
And reboot the system.