Hi Link, On Wed, 2024-09-11 at 19:44 -0300, Link Electronics wrote: > I would like to thank Adrian Glaubitz in advance for his many years of > continuing to support the PowerPC platform on Debian Linux.
You're very welcome. I'm glad it's useful to you. > I have a PowerMac G5 Late 2005, been using it for a few months now and was > using the geforce 6600LE video card that came with it, I compiled some > projects > like DevilutionX, SpaceCadet Pinball, Nblood, Sonic decompilation games > Mupen64plus > etc and made them run with the geforce, but the performance is bad. Good to hear that lots of the stuff actually works. > Few days ago I changed it to a Radeon HD6970, it's a Cayman XT, I have the > xserver-xorg-video-radeon and ati installed, but when loading LightDM or > XFCE4, > the image crashes with artifacts, I can switch to a tty console, in dmesg > radeon > says GPU lockup in ring 0 several times and in the end there is an error in > drm:v1_0_ib_test and drm:radeon_ib_ring_tests, listing in lspci -k , it says > kernel in use: radeon and kernel modules: radeon, amdgpu. This may or may not be a bug in the radeon or amdgpu drivers. I assume they are rarely tested on big-endian targets. > I'm using linux-image-6.10.9-powerpc64 (4kb pagesize?) Yes, that's the 4k pagesize kernel. The 64k pagesize kernel has the -64k suffix. > I can make the screen work with the framebuffer but no hw acceleration then. > What can I do to try to resolve this? Can you try to gather more information from the logs, i.e. the Xorg.0.log file? Thanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
