Thanks, I have installed the kernel as suggested above, and when I run uname -a it returns that the kernel is running, but the graphical errors persist. Do I need to do something more? I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to graphics, so I may have just gotten it wrong.
Thanks for the help Aidan Sciortino On Tue, Dec 29, 2015, 11:09 PM Rick Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Aidan, > > Welcome to the Debian-on-G5-Macs club! > > Peter Saisanas has a patched kernel that fixes this problem. > > Check out this discussion in the mail archives: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2015/11/msg00006.html > > To cut to the chase, > 1) download the two ".deb" files at this URL: > > https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8pqd5Ots1vfaDdaOGJndzU2SlE&usp=sharing&tid=0B8pqd5Ots1vfT2puX09CYjEwcFk > do the following steps as root > 2) do a "dpkg -i" on each of these ".deb" files. > 3) do "update-initramfs -u" > 4) Modify your "/etc/yaboot.conf" file to add a stanza pointing to the > new kernel and initrd files in /boot > 5) run "ybin" > 6) reboot and select the new yaboot option you created in step 4 > > You should be good to go > > I've CC-ed Peter in case he sees anything I've missed here... > > Rick > > > On 12/29/2015 3:27 PM, Aidan Sciortino wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've successfully gotten Debian 8 stable up and running on my powermac > > g5, but am struggling to get a gui configured. The computer has an > > Nvidia fx 5200 graphics card, and I'm using the nouveau driver. The > > colors are extremely messed up, and I'm thinking it's a problem with > > nouveau. Has anyone else had this problem before? Does anyone know of > > a solution? > > > > Thanks > > > > Aidan > > -- > > Aidan Sciortino > > Inventor > > Engineer > > Dreamer > > -- Aidan Sciortino Inventor Engineer Dreamer
