To see what video card you have run this command lspci | grep VGA
Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 8, 2016, at 6:52 PM, G 3 <[email protected]> wrote: > > I gave up on Debian so I don't have it installed anymore. But if you mean > what I have for Ubuntu Mate, I don't know. Maybe someone could send me a > command to execute and I can email the results back to the list. > >> On Jun 8, 2016, at 8:03 PM, Steven Grunza wrote: >> >> 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. >> >
