Re: Could use an explanation why Debian after Wheezy doesn’t work on eMac G4 out of the box. Tried running Debian ports Sid, but boots to a black screen.

I have an eMac G4 too and it saddens me not to be able to install an up to date operating system on it. As far as I understand, the problem is related to video drivers. More specifically to the fact that at some point there was a shift towards KMS (Kernel Mode Setting) video drivers that is not

Re: Could use an explanation why Debian after Wheezy doesn’t work on eMac G4 out of the box. Tried running Debian ports Sid, but boots to a black screen.

Hi, Unfortunately, for the final(?) release of yaboot, the maintainers decided to lower the load address. This broke yaboot for some Apple hardware. And unfortunately, Debian (after wheezy) has been including that broken yaboot. A manually patched version of yaboot that restores yaboot to the

Could use an explanation why Debian after Wheezy doesn’t work on eMac G4 out of the box. Tried running Debian ports Sid, but boots to a black screen.

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. Sent from my iPad