On 09/06/16 01:03, Steven Grunza wrote:
What video driver do you use?
On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 6:56 PM, Programmingkid
<[email protected] <mailto:[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.
I've a different GeForce (6600) but Debian stretch (testing) with
4.5.0-rc2-powerpc64 kernel (built by Peter Saisanas) works for me with
stretch - Debian GNU/Linux 8.3.0 _Jessie_ - Official powerpc NETINST
Binary-1 20160123-19:58
You may have tried this back in March (I sent the link for you back
then) but here it is again:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8pqd5Ots1vfT2puX09CYjEwcFk&usp=drive_web
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