Hi, thanks. Looks like there is no Gnome for non Intel platforms. With XFCE and lightdm I got graphics partly working. Still rad and blue is exchanged.
But I don't want to hijack this bug for the graphics problems ;-) Regards, Alois On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Manfred Stock < manfred.stock+deb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Package: upgrade-reports, linux-image-3.16.0-4-powerpc > Followup-For: Bug #783381 > > Hi, > > > And now to the graphics problems :-( > > on my system, I could improve the situation by replacing GDM3 with > Lightdm, and > Gnome3 with the Awesome or Fluxbox window manager (since they actually > started > and displayed something, which was not the case with GDM or Gnome, they > just > displayed an error along the lines of "something went wrong", with a logout > button). However, I then got some kind of crash/lockup when I executed eg. > dmesg in an xterm (mouse pointer still visible/movable, but otherwise, > nothing > changed, and restarting X iirc just got me a black screen with mouse > pointer). > I could improve that by adding > append="radeon.agpmode=-1" > to the yaboot config of the kernel I'm booting, which disables AGP mode, > but so > far seems to result in a stable system (I have the feeling that it feels > slower > on certain UI updates though, but I'm not sure about his). So far, I've > found > some bug reports [1,2,3] which might be related to these issues, but > haven't > tried anything further. > > Still don't have working suspend to disk/ram though, but that could > actually be > related to the graphics issues and/or my workaround. > > Kind regards > Manfred > > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/762047 > [2] https://bugs.debian.org/782066 > [3] https://bugs.debian.org/683796 > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 8.0 > APT prefers stable-updates > APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') > Architecture: powerpc (ppc) > > Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-powerpc > Locale: LANG=de_CH.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to 783381-unsubscr...@bugs.debian.org. >
