With those Radeon cards adding this at boot helps radeon.agpmode=-1 Sent from my iPhone
> On Jun 9, 2016, at 1:55 AM, G 3 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here is the information: > > 0000:f0:10.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. > [AMD/ATI] RV350 [Radeon 9550/9600/X1050 Series] > > >> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 10:07 PM, Herminio Hernandez Jr. >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. >>>> >>> >
