Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen
On 05/01/15 02:41, Rick Thomas wrote: On May 1, 2015, at 1:45 AM, Luigi Burdo intermedi...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Rick but if you run the X do you have right or wrong colors too? i have a 7800gtx 512mb and the RadeonHD 6570 2gb Luigi I don’t have X installed on this machine. So I can’t answer your question. I’m going to be trying the same trick on an amd64 box I’ve been having the same kind of trouble with. I have X installed (but I’m not using it) on that one. I’ll let you know what I find out. Rick Trying my amd64 box with Nvidia graphics $ lspci | grep VGA 09:02.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV44A [GeForce 6200] (rev a1) when booted into X mode gets the screen all scrambled and useless. I had to add GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=quiet nomodeset vga=0x31B to the /etc/default/grub file. If I left off the vga=0x31B part it booted but with the screen set to 1024x768 resolution. With the vga setting, I was able to specify full 1280x1024 resolution. Everything seems to be working fine, but grub gives me an error message about vga= being depricated, but it disappears before I can read the whole thing. Is there some way to make it pause at that point (before loading the kernel and initrd) so I can read the message? Does anyone know what it means? Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55441e5a.70...@pobox.com
RE: Debian 8.0 PPC not working on Pegasos II G4
Last that i had been installed was debian wheezy 7.6 install it without upgrading during installing ( dont install upgrade from network during the installation procedures) . Remember to make the Swap and the / partitions dont use ext 4 try with ext 2 fs because is more compatible with old pegasos2 openfirmware. remember to make a boot partition where you will copy the kernle and the intrd.img ... you can use that partion for boot loader of morphos and amigaos 4 plus for start osx . I cant help moore because i dont have a peggy2 any more :-( ... one of the best machine that i had in my life. Luigi CC: intermedi...@hotmail.com; debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org From: a...@gmx.ch Subject: Re: Debian 8.0 PPC not working on Pegasos II G4 Date: Sat, 2 May 2015 01:09:22 +0200 To: herminio.hernande...@gmail.com Hello, I and also the other guys in our forum already tried to install 7.8, which ends in the same problem like 8.0. Which version was running on your Peg-2? I only remember that 6.x was running fine. But it would be nice to find the problem, because the part with the installation works fine up to 95%. MfG, Robert Send from iPhone 5 Am 01.05.2015 um 17:30 schrieb Herminio Hernandez Jr. herminio.hernande...@gmail.com: Thanks for responding Sent from my iPhone On May 1, 2015, at 10:28 AM, Luigi Burdo intermedi...@hotmail.com wrote: Guys i had this machine with radeon radeon 9000 and / 9800pro and was working good with debian wheezy 7.x . i sold it in september 2014. the machine is one of the best powerpc platform that i had ...phase 5 after bplan after genensis was make great hardware. i suggest the guys to install wheezy that was tested and working by me in person. Luigi On 01/05/15 16:57, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. wrote: Do you have any advice for these guys? -- Forwarded message -- From: aPEX a...@gmx.ch Date: Fri, May 1, 2015 at 9:36 AM Subject: Re: Debian 8.0 PPC not working on Pegasos II G4 To: Herminio Hernandez Jr. herminio.hernande...@gmail.com Hello Herminio, in our forum now 3 other guys with a PEG-II did a test and came excatly to the same result / problem. I am not a linux specialist, but the kernel part which is starting the installation is working fine. But because the installation fail and later also the booting there must be a difference in the kernel which is installed later. The Pegasos is based on the CHRP plattform: http://www.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/app_note/AN2666.pdf Thank you if you can help in any kind. Best regards, Robert Am 01.05.2015 um 16:27 schrieb Herminio Hernandez Jr. herminio.hernande...@gmail.com: Oh that is not good. Let me reach out to a friend. Sent from my iPhone On May 1, 2015, at 8:41 AM, aPEX a...@gmx.ch wrote: Hello, I tried this but it ends in this, see picture. IMG_0051.JPG Am 30.04.2015 um 20:57 schrieb Herminio Hernandez Jr. herminio.hernande...@gmail.com: If you are yaboot try this Linux radeon.modeset=1 video=offb:off video=radeonfb:off If that does not help then add this as well radeon.agpmode=-1 Sent from my iPhone On Apr 30, 2015, at 1:46 PM, aPEX a...@gmx.ch wrote:
Re: Debian 8.0 PPC not working on Pegasos II G4
Hello, I and also the other guys in our forum already tried to install 7.8, which ends in the same problem like 8.0. Which version was running on your Peg-2? I only remember that 6.x was running fine. But it would be nice to find the problem, because the part with the installation works fine up to 95%. MfG, Robert Send from iPhone 5 Am 01.05.2015 um 17:30 schrieb Herminio Hernandez Jr. herminio.hernande...@gmail.com: Thanks for responding Sent from my iPhone On May 1, 2015, at 10:28 AM, Luigi Burdo intermedi...@hotmail.com wrote: Guys i had this machine with radeon radeon 9000 and / 9800pro and was working good with debian wheezy 7.x . i sold it in september 2014. the machine is one of the best powerpc platform that i had ...phase 5 after bplan after genensis was make great hardware. i suggest the guys to install wheezy that was tested and working by me in person. Luigi On 01/05/15 16:57, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. wrote: Do you have any advice for these guys? -- Forwarded message -- From: aPEX a...@gmx.ch Date: Fri, May 1, 2015 at 9:36 AM Subject: Re: Debian 8.0 PPC not working on Pegasos II G4 To: Herminio Hernandez Jr. herminio.hernande...@gmail.com Hello Herminio, in our forum now 3 other guys with a PEG-II did a test and came excatly to the same result / problem. I am not a linux specialist, but the kernel part which is starting the installation is working fine. But because the installation fail and later also the booting there must be a difference in the kernel which is installed later. The Pegasos is based on the CHRP plattform: http://www.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/app_note/AN2666.pdf Thank you if you can help in any kind. Best regards, Robert Am 01.05.2015 um 16:27 schrieb Herminio Hernandez Jr. herminio.hernande...@gmail.com: Oh that is not good. Let me reach out to a friend. Sent from my iPhone On May 1, 2015, at 8:41 AM, aPEX a...@gmx.ch wrote: Hello, I tried this but it ends in this, see picture. IMG_0051.JPG Am 30.04.2015 um 20:57 schrieb Herminio Hernandez Jr. herminio.hernande...@gmail.com: If you are yaboot try this Linux radeon.modeset=1 video=offb:off video=radeonfb:off If that does not help then add this as well radeon.agpmode=-1 Sent from my iPhone On Apr 30, 2015, at 1:46 PM, aPEX a...@gmx.ch wrote: Hello, it is a RADEON 9000 Pro with 128MB Memory. Best regards, aPEX Am 30.04.2015 um 19:38 schrieb Herminio Hernandez Jr. herminio.hernande...@gmail.com: What is the video card you are using? Sent from my iPhone On Apr 30, 2015, at 12:07 PM, aPEX a...@gmx.ch wrote: Hello, no one who can help? Debian 6.8 was still running fine… I think if I will try Debian 8 I will have same problem like with 7.8? Best regards, aPEX Am 27.04.2015 um 20:27 schrieb aPEX a...@gmx.ch: Hello all, I was using a long time Debian 6.x on my Pegasos II G4 with 1Ghz CPU und 2GB Memory. Last week I got the stupid idea to install everything new using latest Debian 7.8, because on the DVD there is still the install script for the Pegasos. :-) Installation itself is working fine till 95% and then abort there, some like after-installation trigger. We tested it on several Pegasos II that we have, always the same. I can go on without installing more software, but I assume that also some basic stuff is missing. Also the 3.x kernel is no more working on the Pegasos II, you will get screen with grafic trash right after starting the kernel. IMG_9965.JPG Any idea? I tried it in the IRC, but got no answer. It would be really fantastic if this problem could be fixed and the Pegasos II will work again. Best regards, Robert aka aPEX PS: I am just a user, no Linux guru, sorry for this… -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/a1381917-b685-409d-8700-e25f3186f...@gmx.ch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/806dd26d-3f78-411c-9a64-22d775eb5...@gmail.com
Re: Guide to getting ported?
Hi, Paul Wise wrote: Do any porters have any input on this page? https://wiki.debian.org/GettingPorted This page seems it will be useful; I will add some bits to it. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150501233237.gc46...@pyro.eu.org
Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen
Hi Rick, 2015-04-30 12.49 UTC+03.00, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com: Did you ever discover how to fix it without holding back on the kernel level? No, I didn't. (Sorry for the late reply.) I'm using X, so the 'disable KMS' solution doesn't sound good. Risto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CACyRQa2dYytPnprWdaNFhLCTi8OiUi4HS+=+spdemctj1eq...@mail.gmail.com
RE: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen
Thanks for the tip Dan i will test it on my quad.the only problem i have a radeonhd on it in couple with nvidia will se if with the suggested parameter i will able finally to have something working here and no more crashes of Xorg! Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 22:49:43 -0700 From: dand1...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen To: rbtho...@pobox.com CC: intermedi...@hotmail.com; risto.suomi...@gmail.com; debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org On my machine with an ATI card, the boot parameters radeon.modeset=0 or nomodeset work. So on the second Yaboot screen, I type either Linux radeon.modeset=0 or Linux nomodeset to disable KMS. For machines with Nvidia cards, you can do either Linux nomodeset or Linux nouveau.modeset=0. To make the boot parameters permanent so you don't have to type them in anymore, add them with the append line to your yaboot.conf like this: image=/boot/vmlinux label=Linux read-only initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=nomodeset video=offb:off I added the video=offb:off parameter because my machine experienced a bug where the open firmware framebuffer was inhibiting the fall-back radeon framebuffer from loading: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=782066 Also, don't forget to run sudo ybin -v after changing yaboot.conf. I always forget that. Regards, Dan On Thu, 4/30/15, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: Subject: Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen To: Dan DeVoto dand1...@yahoo.com Cc: luigi burdo intermedi...@hotmail.com, Risto Suominen risto.suomi...@gmail.com, PowerPC List Debian debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, April 30, 2015, 5:39 PM Disabling KMS sounds like something I could try (as I say, no X running on this machine). How do I do that? Thanks! Rick On Apr 30, 2015, at 2:02 PM, Dan DeVoto wrote: I have the black screen problem on my iBook. It happens about halfway through the boot process, when kernel modesetting is enabled. I left a bug report: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90220 A workaround is to boot with parameters that disabled KMS, but if you have X running you'll have an unaccelerated desktop. Regards, Dan On Thu, 4/30/15, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: Subject: Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen To: luigi burdo intermedi...@hotmail.com Cc: Risto Suominen risto.suomi...@gmail.com, PowerPC List Debian debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, April 30, 2015, 1:35 PM I don’t have X.org on this machine. I’m trying to keep it as simple as possible, so I did not install any desktop task. Just the basic virtual terminal console. Even so, I get the usual text streaming by during the boot process, but then a blank screen. The system is up — I can ssh into it, but no console. Anybody know what’s causing it? Rick On Apr 30, 2015, at 5:02 AM, luigi burdo intermedi...@hotmail.com wrote: I start have this issue on Jessie but the black screen is the simptom i face because Xorg make a hard crash (reported to xorg devs). switch to tty ... and try to make xinit or start x . On wheezy delete the xorg.conf and probably you will fix it Luigi Burdo Subject: Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen From: rbtho...@pobox.com Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 02:49:42 -0700 CC: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org To: risto.suomi...@gmail.com Hi Risto, I’m seeing this as well. I have a PowerMac11,2 (dual core G5 7GB RAM) Did you ever discover how to fix it without holding back on the kernel level? Anybody? All clues are welcome! Thanks! Rick On Dec 1, 2014, at 6:16 AM, Risto Suominen risto.suomi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, This is probably an old issue, possibly discussed before, even on this list. I've been holding my linux-image as version 3.2.0-2 to avoid the problem. So, the problem: after upgrading to 3.2.0-4, X display is not working. According to Xorg.log everything is as before, but the screen remains black. (At boot the text console is ok.) I'm using kernel command line: video=TV-1:d and xorg.conf: Section Device Identifier Configured Video Device BusID PCI:240:16:0 Driver nouveau Option Monitor-TV-1 Configured Monitor Option NoAccel true EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Configured Monitor Option Ignore true EndSection Section Screen
Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen
Wow, Dan! Unlike Luigi, I have no need for X on this machine. I’m happy (indeed, I’m overjoyed!) to have a working text console. I’m now using append=“ nomodeset” On my MacPro G5, which has an nvidia card. To be specific: $ lspci | grep -i VGA :0b:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600 LE] (rev a2) How can I add this discussion to your bug report at bugs.freedesktop.org as further evidence of the problem? Thank you a thousand times! Rick On Apr 30, 2015, at 10:49 PM, Dan DeVoto dand1...@yahoo.com wrote: On my machine with an ATI card, the boot parameters radeon.modeset=0 or nomodeset work. So on the second Yaboot screen, I type either Linux radeon.modeset=0 or Linux nomodeset to disable KMS. For machines with Nvidia cards, you can do either Linux nomodeset or Linux nouveau.modeset=0. To make the boot parameters permanent so you don't have to type them in anymore, add them with the append line to your yaboot.conf like this: image=/boot/vmlinux label=Linux read-only initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=nomodeset video=offb:off I added the video=offb:off parameter because my machine experienced a bug where the open firmware framebuffer was inhibiting the fall-back radeon framebuffer from loading: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=782066 Also, don't forget to run sudo ybin -v after changing yaboot.conf. I always forget that. Regards, Dan On Thu, 4/30/15, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: Subject: Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen To: Dan DeVoto dand1...@yahoo.com Cc: luigi burdo intermedi...@hotmail.com, Risto Suominen risto.suomi...@gmail.com, PowerPC List Debian debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, April 30, 2015, 5:39 PM Disabling KMS sounds like something I could try (as I say, no X running on this machine). How do I do that? Thanks! Rick On Apr 30, 2015, at 2:02 PM, Dan DeVoto wrote: I have the black screen problem on my iBook. It happens about halfway through the boot process, when kernel modesetting is enabled. I left a bug report: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90220 A workaround is to boot with parameters that disabled KMS, but if you have X running you'll have an unaccelerated desktop. Regards, Dan On Thu, 4/30/15, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: Subject: Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen To: luigi burdo intermedi...@hotmail.com Cc: Risto Suominen risto.suomi...@gmail.com, PowerPC List Debian debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, April 30, 2015, 1:35 PM I don’t have X.org on this machine. I’m trying to keep it as simple as possible, so I did not install any desktop task. Just the basic virtual terminal console. Even so, I get the usual text streaming by during the boot process, but then a blank screen. The system is up — I can ssh into it, but no console. Anybody know what’s causing it? Rick On Apr 30, 2015, at 5:02 AM, luigi burdo intermedi...@hotmail.com wrote: I start have this issue on Jessie but the black screen is the simptom i face because Xorg make a hard crash (reported to xorg devs). switch to tty ... and try to make xinit or start x . On wheezy delete the xorg.conf and probably you will fix it Luigi Burdo Subject: Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen From: rbtho...@pobox.com Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 02:49:42 -0700 CC: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org To: risto.suomi...@gmail.com Hi Risto, I’m seeing this as well. I have a PowerMac11,2 (dual core G5 7GB RAM) Did you ever discover how to fix it without holding back on the kernel level? Anybody? All clues are welcome! Thanks! Rick On Dec 1, 2014, at 6:16 AM, Risto Suominen risto.suomi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, This is probably an old issue, possibly discussed before, even on this list. I've been holding my linux-image as version 3.2.0-2 to avoid the problem. So, the problem: after upgrading to 3.2.0-4, X display is not working. According to Xorg.log everything is as before, but the screen remains black. (At boot the text console is ok.) I'm using kernel command line: video=TV-1:d and xorg.conf: Section Device Identifier Configured Video Device BusID PCI:240:16:0 Driver nouveau Option Monitor-TV-1 Configured Monitor Option NoAccel true EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Configured Monitor Option Ignore true EndSection Section Screen Identifier Default Screen Device Configured Video Device EndSection In addition, I've tried to add /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau.conf: nouveau noaccel=1 It makes no difference. I'm using Wheezy (7.7) with all
RE: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen
I had been test and with: nomodeset nouveau.modeset=0 On Nvidia i have Xorg working but colors are totally wrong and gfx totally glitchedRadeon reply with drm ERROR UMS not supported by radeon module. nomodeset nouveau.modeset=0 radeon.modeset=0 video=radeonfb:off video=nouveaufb:off On Nvidia i have Xorg working but colors are totally wrong and gfx totally glitchedRadeon reply with drm ERROR UMS not supported by radeon module. if i set: nomodeset nouveau.modeset=1 radeon.modeset=0 video=radeonfb:off video=nouveaufb:off i have black screen on nvidia and on radeon if i set :nomodeset nouveau.modeset=0 radeon.modeset=1 video=radeonfb:off video=nouveaufb:off i have screen on radeon but Xorg crash like reported on Xorg dev . if i set :video=offb:off in all the options write before and not set the modeset to 1 on one the modulei dont have screen at all. Luigi Burdo (i continue be out for all new release :- ( ) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 22:49:43 -0700 From: dand1...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen To: rbtho...@pobox.com CC: intermedi...@hotmail.com; risto.suomi...@gmail.com; debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org On my machine with an ATI card, the boot parameters radeon.modeset=0 or nomodeset work. So on the second Yaboot screen, I type either Linux radeon.modeset=0 or Linux nomodeset to disable KMS. For machines with Nvidia cards, you can do either Linux nomodeset or Linux nouveau.modeset=0. To make the boot parameters permanent so you don't have to type them in anymore, add them with the append line to your yaboot.conf like this: image=/boot/vmlinux label=Linux read-only initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=nomodeset video=offb:off I added the video=offb:off parameter because my machine experienced a bug where the open firmware framebuffer was inhibiting the fall-back radeon framebuffer from loading: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=782066 Also, don't forget to run sudo ybin -v after changing yaboot.conf. I always forget that. Regards, Dan On Thu, 4/30/15, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: Subject: Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen To: Dan DeVoto dand1...@yahoo.com Cc: luigi burdo intermedi...@hotmail.com, Risto Suominen risto.suomi...@gmail.com, PowerPC List Debian debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, April 30, 2015, 5:39 PM Disabling KMS sounds like something I could try (as I say, no X running on this machine). How do I do that? Thanks! Rick On Apr 30, 2015, at 2:02 PM, Dan DeVoto wrote: I have the black screen problem on my iBook. It happens about halfway through the boot process, when kernel modesetting is enabled. I left a bug report: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90220 A workaround is to boot with parameters that disabled KMS, but if you have X running you'll have an unaccelerated desktop. Regards, Dan On Thu, 4/30/15, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: Subject: Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen To: luigi burdo intermedi...@hotmail.com Cc: Risto Suominen risto.suomi...@gmail.com, PowerPC List Debian debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, April 30, 2015, 1:35 PM I don’t have X.org on this machine. I’m trying to keep it as simple as possible, so I did not install any desktop task. Just the basic virtual terminal console. Even so, I get the usual text streaming by during the boot process, but then a blank screen. The system is up — I can ssh into it, but no console. Anybody know what’s causing it? Rick On Apr 30, 2015, at 5:02 AM, luigi burdo intermedi...@hotmail.com wrote: I start have this issue on Jessie but the black screen is the simptom i face because Xorg make a hard crash (reported to xorg devs). switch to tty ... and try to make xinit or start x . On wheezy delete the xorg.conf and probably you will fix it Luigi Burdo Subject: Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen From: rbtho...@pobox.com Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 02:49:42 -0700 CC: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org To: risto.suomi...@gmail.com Hi Risto, I’m seeing this as well. I have a PowerMac11,2 (dual core G5 7GB RAM) Did you ever discover how to fix it without holding back on the kernel level? Anybody? All clues are welcome! Thanks! Rick On Dec 1, 2014, at 6:16 AM, Risto Suominen risto.suomi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, This is probably an old issue, possibly discussed before, even on this list. I've been holding my linux-image as version
Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen
Hi Rick but if you run the X do you have right or wrong colors too? i have a 7800gtx 512mb and the RadeonHD 6570 2gb Luigi On 01/05/15 10:32, Rick Thomas wrote: Wow, Dan! Unlike Luigi, I have no need for X on this machine. I’m happy (indeed, I’m overjoyed!) to have a working text console. I’m now using append=“ nomodeset” On my MacPro G5, which has an nvidia card. To be specific: $ lspci | grep -i VGA :0b:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600 LE] (rev a2) How can I add this discussion to your bug report at bugs.freedesktop.org as further evidence of the problem? Thank you a thousand times! Rick On Apr 30, 2015, at 10:49 PM, Dan DeVoto dand1...@yahoo.com wrote: On my machine with an ATI card, the boot parameters radeon.modeset=0 or nomodeset work. So on the second Yaboot screen, I type either Linux radeon.modeset=0 or Linux nomodeset to disable KMS. For machines with Nvidia cards, you can do either Linux nomodeset or Linux nouveau.modeset=0. To make the boot parameters permanent so you don't have to type them in anymore, add them with the append line to your yaboot.conf like this: image=/boot/vmlinux label=Linux read-only initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=nomodeset video=offb:off I added the video=offb:off parameter because my machine experienced a bug where the open firmware framebuffer was inhibiting the fall-back radeon framebuffer from loading: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=782066 Also, don't forget to run sudo ybin -v after changing yaboot.conf. I always forget that. Regards, Dan On Thu, 4/30/15, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: Subject: Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen To: Dan DeVoto dand1...@yahoo.com Cc: luigi burdo intermedi...@hotmail.com, Risto Suominen risto.suomi...@gmail.com, PowerPC List Debian debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, April 30, 2015, 5:39 PM Disabling KMS sounds like something I could try (as I say, no X running on this machine). How do I do that? Thanks! Rick On Apr 30, 2015, at 2:02 PM, Dan DeVoto wrote: I have the black screen problem on my iBook. It happens about halfway through the boot process, when kernel modesetting is enabled. I left a bug report: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90220 A workaround is to boot with parameters that disabled KMS, but if you have X running you'll have an unaccelerated desktop. Regards, Dan On Thu, 4/30/15, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: Subject: Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen To: luigi burdo intermedi...@hotmail.com Cc: Risto Suominen risto.suomi...@gmail.com, PowerPC List Debian debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, April 30, 2015, 1:35 PM I don’t have X.org on this machine. I’m trying to keep it as simple as possible, so I did not install any desktop task. Just the basic virtual terminal console. Even so, I get the usual text streaming by during the boot process, but then a blank screen. The system is up — I can ssh into it, but no console. Anybody know what’s causing it? Rick On Apr 30, 2015, at 5:02 AM, luigi burdo intermedi...@hotmail.com wrote: I start have this issue on Jessie but the black screen is the simptom i face because Xorg make a hard crash (reported to xorg devs). switch to tty ... and try to make xinit or start x . On wheezy delete the xorg.conf and probably you will fix it Luigi Burdo Subject: Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen From: rbtho...@pobox.com Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 02:49:42 -0700 CC: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org To: risto.suomi...@gmail.com Hi Risto, I’m seeing this as well. I have a PowerMac11,2 (dual core G5 7GB RAM) Did you ever discover how to fix it without holding back on the kernel level? Anybody? All clues are welcome! Thanks! Rick On Dec 1, 2014, at 6:16 AM, Risto Suominen risto.suomi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, This is probably an old issue, possibly discussed before, even on this list. I've been holding my linux-image as version 3.2.0-2 to avoid the problem. So, the problem: after upgrading to 3.2.0-4, X display is not working. According to Xorg.log everything is as before, but the screen remains black. (At boot the text console is ok.) I'm using kernel command line: video=TV-1:d and xorg.conf: Section Device Identifier Configured Video Device BusID PCI:240:16:0 Driver nouveau Option Monitor-TV-1 Configured Monitor Option NoAccel true EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Configured Monitor Option Ignore true EndSection Section Screen Identifier Default Screen Device Configured Video Device EndSection In addition, I've tried to add /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau.conf: nouveau noaccel=1 It makes no
Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen
On May 1, 2015, at 1:45 AM, Luigi Burdo intermedi...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Rick but if you run the X do you have right or wrong colors too? i have a 7800gtx 512mb and the RadeonHD 6570 2gb Luigi I don’t have X installed on this machine. So I can’t answer your question. I’m going to be trying the same trick on an amd64 box I’ve been having the same kind of trouble with. I have X installed (but I’m not using it) on that one. I’ll let you know what I find out. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/6324caa0-55c8-4024-ab2a-e52fc671e...@pobox.com
