Essentially, my screen can be found (I have an iMac G3 in which I’ve ran Sid
on)… however it can’t find any usable configurations, and manually generating
an XOrg configuration (editing it to give certain options) doesn’t help. Is
this an XOrg, driver, or kernel issue?
I’d like to know as this
I translated what Sante said the error message was via Google Translate:
The error is this:
"grub-install: error: the selected partition is not a PReP partition"
I hope all is well, Adrian. Aside from trying to get X working on Linux in
general (which I’ve failed to do so with my iMac G3 in both
I went to install Xserver-xorg-video-r128 and it recommended that I install the
Linux firmware package, which doesn’t exist in the ports repository.
Any idea where I should look to get said package? It’s been a while since I
last installed Debian ports.
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I just tried installing the latest version of Debian Ports on my iMac G3 and
well it fails to install GRUB. Falling back to April’s installation media
(which I have on hand) that doesn’t have this problem that has seemingly
cropped up again with the latest batch of images.
Tried a workaround
I use a Realtek wireless dongle with the iMac... an 8192CU based Edimax dongle
to be precise. It worked during the package portion of the install but not now.
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On Friday, April 16, 2021, 1:58 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
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On 4/16/21 12:50 AM, Alex
My connection to the internet is fine, just doesn’t seem like it on my G3 after
the install.
I’ll have to check ifconfig here in a bit...
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> On Apr 15, 2021, at 6:18 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> wrote:
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> On 4/15/21 11:59 PM, Alex McKeever wrote
I already have that set, and I even added 8.8.4.4 too but still the same result.
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> On Apr 15, 2021, at 6:18 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> wrote:
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> On 4/15/21 11:59 PM, Alex McKeever wrote:
>> Pinging Deb.Debian.org results in “temporary failure
based) as I
don’t have any Ethernet jacks wired up (thanks AT for unhooking them for
“stability reasons”... not!)
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> On Apr 15, 2021, at 5:35 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> wrote:
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> On 4/15/21 11:05 PM, Alex McKeever wrote:
>> The install image was able
Just recently installed the latest image on my iMac G3, and was hit with issues
getting packages. I successfully installed the system with LXDE, and was
looking to fix the blinking cursor in the top right by installing the r128
driver along with XOrg. The install image was able to fetch
I tried to fetch it, but APT or APT-get wasn’t having it. Checked
/etc/resolv.conf and I know my sources.list is fine what the hell is going
on?
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> On Apr 15, 2021, at 12:03 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> wrote:
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>
>
>> On Apr 15, 2021, at 5
Looks like I’ll have to try this again! As the r128 video package is now in the
repository, I might be able to finally get it running.
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> On Apr 14, 2021, at 4:44 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> wrote:
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> Hi!
>
> Here are the first test images where the installation of
15, 2021, at 11:09 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> wrote:
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>
>> On Apr 15, 2021, at 4:57 PM, Alex McKeever
>> wrote:
>>
>> It’s been a long time since I last heard anything on this. I’d like to run
>> Linux on my G3 iMac in some form (after
It’s been a long time since I last heard anything on this. I’d like to run
Linux on my G3 iMac in some form (after some experimentation with the few
leopard betas that can be hacked to run on here), and Ubuntu 16.04 is not a
good option today. I tried Adelie and Void-ppc, but those are more
Adrian,
I have the driver installed but I’m getting a segmentation fault.
xorg.0.log
Description: Binary data
Attached is my Xorg.0.log file
- Alex
Just to reply to my own message, looks like the aforementioned package is a
wrapper for the old
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Looks like the r128 driver isn’t necessary on its own as it’s provided by this
package digging
Looks like the r128 driver isn’t necessary on its own as it’s provided by this
package digging a little deeper. I also have xserver-XOrg-legacy installed
which isn’t promising. Would the standalone r128 driver even help in this
scenario?
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A fellow YouTuber by the name of Action Retro has an older iMac than I do that
could benefit from the Mach64 driver... has that been dropped too? Would it be
too much to ask to bring that back too? I know he’d appreciate it as he tried
Adelie Linux and couldn’t get it fully working either.
I know I’ve been a bit of an annoyance, but I would like to thank all of you
responsible for keeping our old PowerPC machines running well after Debian and
Ubuntu dropped support for them.
Rock on!
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What’ll have to be done now? Very curious to the outcome.
> On Apr 20, 2020, at 4:48 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> wrote:
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> On 4/20/20 10:44 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> On 4/20/20 10:39 PM, Ed Robbins wrote:
>>> What rage 128 patches are you alluding to?
>>
>> This might be
Tried everything to get X working (needed working for LXDE), including a new
xorg.conf with modelines. NO SUCCESS AT ALL.
Another developer (who works on VoidPPC) said r128 needs patched to even work….
I don’t even know what he did to get it working over there.
As the subject suggests, I’m giving the new image made yesterday a go.
Currently I’m in need of help getting LXDE running like it should. According to
XOrg, no screens can be found. Likewise startlxde is similarly in the same boat.
Nothing I have tried has worked.
Thank you.
Gtk-Warning **: cannot open display.
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> On 2020-04-16 7:46 p.m., Alex McKeever wrote:
>> I was told that the kernel is why it doesn’t work 100%... that it needs
>> User Space Modesetting and thus needs an older kernel like 2.6, 3.13 or
>> 4.4.0-187 to work properly at all with the Rage128.
>
> The r128 driv
I was told that the kernel is why it doesn’t work 100%... that it needs User
Space Modesetting and thus needs an older kernel like 2.6, 3.13 or 4.4.0-187 to
work properly at all with the Rage128. I’d hate to say it but I’ve lost faith
in Debian/Ubuntu. I will be giving Adelie Linux a shot
How hard would it be to get it working on this machine? Mine was manufactured
at around the same time as my PowerMac G5 2.0 DP. I don’t understand why the
eMac is not supported by Ports anymore... why’d they not add support for the
Radeon 9200 for KMS? The PowerMac G5 is running Fienix Lite, a
Why is this even happening? I’m running a slightly modified install on my eMac
here because the 4 series kernel doesn’t work with it (CRT is blank). I am
running the older 3.13 series kernel and am at a roadblock in installing
software. I am running the 10.0
Minimal install with the
Subject says it all. Don’t have this problem with FreeBSD, but then again I
wouldn’t have the packages issue that FreeBSD has with Fienix’s repository.
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