In my case, I wanted to run the X client for emacs. All I needed to do was
# apt-get install emacs
I allowed apt to install the dependencies that it required but this did not
install all of X. From my Windows machine, which is running Xming, I ssh
with PuTTY and enable X11 fowarding in the PuTTY config. After login to the
powermac, I can echo the DISPLAY variable and see that it is set to
something like localhost:10.0. If I run emacs from the command line, the
GUI X client is drawn on my Xming server running on my Windows machine.
Let me know if you have specific questions, like how to configure PuTTY or,
if you don't have Windows, I can show you how to use another Linux machine
where you may have X11 running already.
Thanks,
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Valdes
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2014 4:12 PM
To: David Gosselin
Cc: Risto Suominen ; PowerPC List Debian
Subject: Re: Power Mac G5 Debian Wheezy / Problem with GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
That's very interesting.
Can you guide me to a good document on how to try this?
On Sun, 2014-03-02 at 14:36 -0500, David Gosselin wrote:
A tad off-topic but, if you can’t get this working and the apps you expect
to run don’t require the muscle of your video card, then you can install
your X clients on the machine and forward their displays to a X server on
another machine on your network. This is what I do for my PowerMac G5 7,3
running Debian 7.3.0 because I didn’t want to spend too much time getting
the in-built graphics card to work.
On Mar 2, 2014, at 10:11 AM, Risto Suominen <risto.suomi...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> 2014-03-02 15:12 UTC+02.00, Aaron Valdes <aaron78val...@gmail.com>:
>>
>> This is Debian Wheezy on the Power Mac G5 with GeForce FX 5200 Ultra.
>>
> I have exactly the same machine. Kernel is 3.1.0-1-powerpc64.
>
> Which output connector are you using, DVI (DVI-I-2) or ADC (DVI-I-1)?
>
> If you can ssh into the machine, take a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
>
> Risto
>
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