Hello,
i just got into this thread. Last month i wanted to resurrect my iMac G5 by
installing Debian Jessie. I was blocked at the same point like you are.. I was
on the edge to stop and throw the iMac to the garbage. But here is what i did
and it works:- install the kernel with page size 4K instead 64K. : find it in
this thread Re: Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues
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- @ boot: Linux nouveau.noaccel=1 video=TV-1:d This made my iMac show the X.-
Do not bother to try to install nvidia drivers. They are only for
amd64/i386Hope this helps,Mircea
On Thursday, October 1, 2015 7:31 PM, Roger Harkavy
<[email protected]> wrote:
Yeah, I think it's getting to that point. I was just very tempted to breathe
life into something that was previously useless. ;p
On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Christophe De Natale
<[email protected]> wrote:
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]> wrote:
Another great resource is here
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCFAQ#Nvidia_cards
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 30, 2015, at 11:23 PM, Roger Harkavy <[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]> wrote:
Check this post out
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]> 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/
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.
