Hi Peter, It looks like events have caught up with us. There’s now a 4.5.0 kernel in Debian testing and strong hints that the kernel in Stretch, when it’s released, will be based on 4.6. So your reconfigured 4.5.0-rc2 kernel is getting out-of-date.
Which raises a couple of questions: Is there any chance that your changes could make it into an official Debian package? Seems unlikely to me — because it’s very hardware specific — but we can always hope! Do you have plans to make a 4.6 based kernel any time? And finally, is there a hardware solution? Is there a non-Nvidia graphics card I could purchase and install in my PowerMac-G5 that wouldn’t have the problem? I don’t need anything fancy. Just enough to run a simple 2D mate or xfce desktop. From all of us who have benefitted from your work, a big “Thank you!” Enjoy! Rick On Jan 14, 2016, at 12:42 AM, Peter Saisanas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Logan, > The kernel version is quite old (3.16.7). Perhaps you can try something > newer. Nouveau continually has improvements practically with each newer > kernel version. > > Perhaps something to consider, try the easy way out and use a pre-compiled > kernel deb package that i have available. I have kernels as new as 4.4.0 > available suitable for Powermac G5's. > At least these could perhaps be a better baseline as these kernels are known > to be working for many Powermac G5's (AGP & PCIe GPU's along with a few > generations of nVidia GPU's (some even older than yours). Makes it easier to > have a side by side comparison. > Your call, link is below if interested. > > https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8pqd5Ots1vfT2puX09CYjEwcFk&usp=drive_web > > Many have used them successfully in the past and have got their G5 Powermacs > running with nouveau. > > I'm not so sure that MSI interrupts are ever enabled on AGP GPU's in the > first place (PCIe based GPU's are a different story). > It would be interesting to see your cat /proc/interrupts log as well. > > Regarding your EDID issue, can you try the other DVI connector of your video > card or cable or alternatively try another display out if the issue still > persists. > > Most Apple OEM ATI Radeon GPU's have their own issues as well. But that's > another story. > > Regards, > Peter > >
