What video driver do you use? On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 6:56 PM, Programmingkid <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Jun 8, 2016, at 12:13 PM, Steven Grunza wrote: > > > Does anyone know if the nouveau driver will work with an old G5 PowerPC > and the GeForce FX G05200 it originally used? > > > > The last time I tried it had numerous problems (no graphics, kernel > panics, etc). > > > > lsusb reports the video card as: > > > > NVIDIA Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX Go5200] (rev a1) > > > > > > Various versions of jessie failed in various ways. Does Stretch have a > different version of the nouveau driver? Since the machine is PowerPC I > can't use the NVIDIA driver. > > > > - Steven G. > > Debian is still broken when it comes to iMac G5 compatibility. My iMac G5 > booted to a command prompt after installing Debian. I think the only fix is > to move on to a different distribution like Ubuntu Mate 15.10. It works > well on my iMac G5. > > Just to note, my iMac G5 has a ATI Radeon 9600 in it, so your issues might > be different from mine.
