IMO Stop to loose your time on this machine, this will never work without nv driver (nouveau is « supposed » to work but it doesn't) I’ve tried with wheezy but same results … and passed a few hours and many workaround.
Cheers, Christophe De Natale > Le 1 oct. 2015 à 15:38, Roger Harkavy <[email protected]> a écrit : > > Okay, again, thank you everyone for the information. Looks like this is > definitely the video driver. > > I am wondering, would I have better results if I tried installing Wheezy or > Squeeze instead of Jessie? > > On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 1:37 AM, Herminio Hernandez Jr. > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > Another great resource is here > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCFAQ#Nvidia_cards > <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCFAQ#Nvidia_cards> > Sent from my iPhone > > On Sep 30, 2015, at 11:23 PM, Roger Harkavy <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> Ah, this information is helping! The following options allow me to get to >> where what should be the login screen appears, but it is black with a purple >> cursor: >> >> nomodeset >> >> or >> >> nouveau.modeset=0 >> >> From there I can press Ctrl-Alt-F1 and get to a command prompt. >> >> I also tried these commands but neither of them change anything: >> >> nouveau.noaccel=1 >> >> or >> >> nouveau.config=NvMSI=0 >> >> Maybe I can try them all together? I don't know. I feel like I am getting >> closer, though. It is a problem with the Nouveau driver. >> >> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> wrote: >> Check this post out >> http://powerpcliberation.blogspot.ca/2015/05/jessie-meets-bigmac.html >> <http://powerpcliberation.blogspot.ca/2015/05/jessie-meets-bigmac.html> >> >> It is deal with G5 but I think the Nvidia issue may apply to you. >> >> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 10:18 PM, <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> Dear Roger, >> >> What I would try is appending "single" to the "Linux" option at the second >> stage yaboot prompt. >> >> Peter >> >> >> >> On 30/09/15 07:33 PM, Roger Harkavy wrote: >> I originally posted this on the Debian user forums but I was directed to >> this mailing list. Hopefully I can give you enough information for some >> guidance on troubleshooting this. >> >> I have an iMac G4 "desk lamp," 512k of RAM, 200 GB HD, I believe the >> processor is a 7450. I downloaded the Debian Jessie netboot powerpc >> "mini.iso" image from here and burned it to a CD: >> >> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-powerpc/current/images/powerpc/netboot/ >> >> <http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-powerpc/current/images/powerpc/netboot/> >> >> Installation seemed to go smoothly, no errors, and I selected MATE as the >> desktop choice during install. The only other option I selected was the >> "additional desktop software" (sorry, do not remember the exact text). >> >> However, after installation, when it boots, one of the last messages you >> see is: >> >> [FAILED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules. >> >> Last line is something along the lines of: >> >> fb: switching to nouveaufb from OFfb NVDA,NVMac >> >> And then the text starts dissolving, and the entire screen cycles through >> different colors. I presume it is sitting at the graphical login prompt but >> it's not displaying correctly. >> >> Based on some Google searches, it seems like I should be able to resolve >> this by editing /etc/modules using nano from a command prompt but I can't >> get to that point. After the machine starts cycling through the colors, I >> press ctrl-alt-F1 through ctrl-alt-F12. If there is a command prompt being >> offered, I can't see it. >> >> I also tried different yaboot options I found in searches that were >> supposed to avoid using the video driver. Unfortunately these didn't work >> either, but maybe I'm not choosing the right ones. >> >> How do I get the machine to boot straight to a regular text login instead >> of the X-based one? >> >> Also, this machine worked fine running Mac OS X this morning (partition was >> deleted during the install process), so I don't think it's the hardware. >> >> Please let me know what I can do. Thank you in advance for any help you can >> provide. >> >> >> >> >
