On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 11:11 PM, Mick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 22:45:47 +0200 > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 04/24/2018 10:35 PM, Mick wrote: >> > That's exactly what happened with lubuntu 16.04 PPC on my ibook G4 (with >> > a radeon graphic card). And that's the reason why I rolled back to 14.04. >> > And that's also why I subscribe to this list! >> >> Feel free to install Debian sid on your iBook G4 [1]. You will have something >> supported (unofficially through Debian Ports) and up-to-date for your >> iBook. >> > Encouraging words! I will do assoon as possible,thanks. > >> I'm not sure what Mathieu was referring to in his second mail though >> when talking about PCI vs AGP. I think the Radeon in the G4 was AGP. >> > The radeon is on AGP bus, but I heard that the driver does not work well in > agp mode. The only way I found to let the system stay up is to pass to the > kernel the parameter radeon.agpmode=-1, which means use the card in PCI mode. > I suppose he was referring to it.
I had been working on radeonfb for a while and totally forgot that I commented out: $ cat /etc/modprobe.d/radeon.conf #options radeon agpmode=-1 So I (re)submitted an old patch to change the default behavior: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10360887/ > -- > Mick >
