Hi Riccardo,
There was discussion about this on the mailing list last year, but I
don't think it ever got fixed.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2025/10/msg00060.html
Looks like there was an update two weeks ago stating it's fixed now, though:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/work_items/13952
On 5/20/26 10:34 AM, Jeroen Diederen wrote:
Hi Riccardo,
You should downgrade the mesa packages to 24.1.6, the last known
working version for PowerPC.
Best regards,
Jeroen Diederen
Riccardo Mottola schreef op 2026-05-20 18:03:
Hi,
I want to get OpenGL acceleration working and need it to test things.
I have two candidates: iBook G4 and PowerBook G4. I suppose old iBook
G3 which has barely 2d acceleration these days is out of the game :)
In the past, the iBook always had trouble, even before updates. I
don't remember if glxgears worked or not, but actual applications
like browsers did not.
The PowerBook G4 instead used to have working OpenGL with an about a
year old debian... couldn't upgrade for a long time for various reasons.
according to lspci, they have:
iBook G4: ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 - RV280
PowerBook G4: ATI Mobility Radeon 9600/9700 - RV360/370
firmware-amd-graphics is installed
wonder what it is in detail
I have upgraded debian and am running on both 7.0.7 kernel.
My simple test is to run glxgears.
iBook:
LLVM ERROR: Relocation type not implemented yet!
Aborted glxgears
PowerBook:
Error: coudn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual
(and exists)
Any ideas?
Riccardo
