Heya guys, I also would like to thank Clemens Duerrschmidt again for his kind donation of his G5 PowerMac9,1 (single core G5, 1.8 GhZ, 600 MhZ fsb, AGP variant). :)
It's already well put to testing, the situation with the Nvidia FX 5200 AGP card is quite messy however, there are multiple bug reports going back many years but aside from basically giving up on any hardware accel features since KMS not much has come up it seems. While in general it might be able to work, workarounds for Nouveau on ppc and the FX 5200 AGP and similar nvidia cards are not too well documented it seems and ppl understandably moved on, also some later/ beefier G5 systems with pcie cards make it easier to switch to more easily maintainable GPU solutions (eg. AMD/ ATI) but of course that is not the goal here, I will look further into it but if you got any leads feel free to share, thx! best regards, grüße boris Konstantinos Margaritis <mar...@freevec.org> schrieb am Mo., 9. Feb. 2015 16:08: On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 21:44:44 +0200 Konstantinos Margaritis <mar...@freevec.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to help on the ppc64 port, I have ppc32 hardware, > ppc64/ppc64el remote VM accounts but no actual ppc64 hardware. I > just lost an extremely low bid for an imac g5 on ebay and am short > on cash for another, but if anyone has a spare G5 (any model, but pref > imac so that it can be easy to ship) in working order and is willing > to part with it, I could handle the shipping costs (please, only > within the EU, I've had the unhappy experience of paying insane > shipping costs for buying a big box from the US :) Replying to self, thanks to everyone for your kind offers, I have decided to accept Risto Suominen's iMac G5 offer. Once I receive the hardware, I'll attempt a ppc64 installation. Kind Regards
