Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen

2015-05-01 Thread Rick Thomas
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

RE: Debian 8.0 PPC not working on Pegasos II G4

2015-05-01 Thread luigi burdo
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

Re: Debian 8.0 PPC not working on Pegasos II G4

2015-05-01 Thread aPEX
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

Re: Guide to getting ported?

2015-05-01 Thread Steven Chamberlain
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

Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen

2015-05-01 Thread Risto Suominen
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

RE: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen

2015-05-01 Thread luigi burdo
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:

Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen

2015-05-01 Thread Rick Thomas
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

RE: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen

2015-05-01 Thread luigi burdo
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

Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen

2015-05-01 Thread Luigi Burdo
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.

Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen

2015-05-01 Thread Rick Thomas
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