I installed squeeze on a PowerBook G4 and was unhappy with the performance of the nv driver trying to use Blender & for graphics in general.
0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX Go5200] (rev a1) I tried setting up a xorg.conf and using nouveau, but couldn't get to X. So I "upgraded" to sid/development, but it is still using the 2.6.32.5 kernel. I gather that nouveau has been added to the kernel of 2.6.33 and up. So I thought I'd try setting the machine up as a mixed system. I added the sid repositories to my sources.list and made unstable the default release in a /etc/apt/apt.conf. I attempted to install linux-headers-2.6.33-2-powerpc, which I gathered might support nouveau better, but got unmet dependency errors. It there a way to force apt-get to install a kernel on the experimental repository? Baring that I thought maybe I could use this method to compile a new kernel: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCFAQ#How%20can%20I%20configure%20and%20compile%20my%20own%20kernel%20under%20PowerPC%20Linux? I know this is Debian, not Ubuntu, but it looks pretty straight forward. It looks like I'd have a choice of "stable" vanilla kernels from kernel.org, 2.6.33.7, 2.6.34.7 or 2.6.35.7. Does that look like it would work and does anyone have a suggestion for which kernel I should try? I also looked at his page about installing nouveau from git using the latest git kernel & Debian unstable/experimental: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/DebianInstall It looks a little onery & over a year old. Does that look like it would still work? Does anyone have another suggestion that would make it easier to get nouveau on this beast? Maybe a tweak of the xorg.conf? Is it even worth the effort? Will this machine still be pokey, even with nouveau installed? Thanks, GT -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
