hm after upgrade to kernel 3.13 solution is broke again i don't know . sorry for bothering .
Am Jan 31, 2016 um 9:47 PM schrieb Richard Kuenz <[email protected]>: > Hello , > > today i had a good day - > > triple boot my acer aspire with debian stretch - windows 8 - mackintosh / > hack ML2 (which is super fast!) > > and finally could boot decently into a PowerMac G5 linux distro - without > big issues - thanks to threes modifications > > having also a Nvidia 5200 > > > > http://www.mintppc.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1289 > > > > > Thank you all so much for your help - hope now to get kodi and linphone > running! > > Powermac OSX leopard is still my favorite though, because everything works > like a wonder. Especially Bluetooth Tethering which i like very much - giving > Internet to Phone and Tablet without much fuss. Never was able to get it > working on Windows - but i am not such a passionate user, though. > > > Hopefully it will be possible to integrate a valid Bluetooth solution into > the PPC Laptop - that would be wonderful! > > > All the Best > Rich > > > > > Am Dec 30, 2015 um 9:44 PM schrieb Peter Saisanas <[email protected]>: > >> Hi Aidan, >> >> Please use this 3.18.16 kernel. Link below: >> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8pqd5Ots1vffmY5ZnpGUDg4UGNnVFk2M05tQUtEUUkwUmhmQWdLMWpfZGVraDIxSFltb1k >> >> Please post a complete dmesg log. (Please dont grep anything, i mean a >> complete dmesg log). >> >> Also please post the output of "cat /proc/interrupts". >> >> I think a step has been missed where the msi interrupts are required to be >> disabled. this is required for PMAC's with PCIe (PMAC 11.2). >> Perhaps MSI interrupts may or may not be required for AGP based GPU's. >> >> I take it your machine is an AGP + PCIx Powermac G5? >> >> Hopefully the two logs mentioned may shed some light on the issue and >> hopefully help sort out your problem. >> I assume you already have a kernel running with a 4k pagesize? >> >> Regards, >> Peter >> >> On 31/12/15 03:57, Aidan Sciortino wrote: >>> The card and monitor both worked fine under mac os x, and the color is fine >>> in the terminal. I'm not sure what would indicate a gpu or monitor error, >>> but they a were both working fine under os x. >>> >>> Thanks for the suggestion though, I'll try a different cable. >>> >>> Aidan >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 11:54 AM Brock Wittrock <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> Have you ruled out the possibility of a hardware issue either with your >>> monitor, video card port(s), and video cable itself? Sometimes bent or >>> missing pins on the video cables or loose connections can cause such >>> problems. Just wanted to throw that out there. >>> >>> B-rock >>> >>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Aidan Sciortino >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> 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 >>> >>> -- >>> Aidan Sciortino >>> Inventor >>> Engineer >>> Dreamer >> >
