Hi Peter, I get it. What you describe is in the plans — and thanks very much for the detailed directions; it’s pretty much what I had planned to do myself, but it’s always nice to have confirmation. Actually, even better, I plan to re-install with stock-out-of-the-box Jessie plus your tweaked kernel. The only reason I had Sid installed at all was my search for a working nouveau.
The reason for the previous test was because it was easy to do and I (mis-)interpreted you as wanting to know how that particular combination worked out in my case. Sorry for the noise! Now that we have a working theory as to why nouveau fails, I’m happy to use a supported stable (Jessie) system with a slightly tweaked kernel — rather than an avowedly unstable setup with a stock kernel that doesn’t have a prayer of working. In the long run, somebody (with better kernel coding skills than me) needs to fix the nouveau driver to work with 64K pagesize. However, I suspect that will be considerably harder than configuring the current kernel to use 4K pagesize, as a short-term workaround. I’ll definitely report on how things work on my hardware with your kernel, but it will have to wait til after the weekend. 4th of July == US Independence Day == lots of neighborhood/family/etc parties and celebrations == no time for playing with computers. I’m looking forward to sending a report soon! Rick On Jun 30, 2015, at 2:56 AM, Peter Saisanas <psaisa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Rick, > You cant get nouveau working with your current kernel. Period. > It doesn't matter what kernel options or module options you pass, nouveau > with acceleration just doesn't currently work with a 64kb pagesize kernel. > > You are falling back to the openfirmware framebuffer. I have told you to > disable nouveau because it just wont work with your current kernel config for > xorg, but for the console it doesnt matter. > > Please install the kernel deb package for 3.18.16 i have provided from the > link i have given previously. > It has been configured to work immediately without requiring any kernel > options appended and even doesnt require an xorg config. > > The beauty of KMS! > > After installing the kernel deb files, create a new kernel boot entry in > yaboot.conf and run "ybin -v" afterwards. Make sure you re-enable nouveau by > taking it off the blacklist and only add modules "snd-aoa-i2sbus" and > "i2c-powermac" to /etc/modules. This should get audio along with windfarm > running. Update your initrd by running "update-initramfs -u". > > Reboot to the 3.18.16 kernel you just installed. It should just work! > > If you are hell bent on getting the latest kernel running, i can try building > the absolute latest stable kernel. The most recent one i have tried > successfully is 4.0.2 but if you want something even newer, ill look into it. > > Cheers, > Peter > > Install the kernel > > On 30/06/15 19:23, Rick Thomas wrote: >> On Jun 30, 2015, at 1:09 AM, Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> >> wrote: >> >> >>>> You would be better off not appending any options to yaboot.conf and >>>> blacklisting nouveau for now. >>>> >>>> >>> I’ll give that a try! >>> >> Here’s what happens when I blacklist kernel module nouveau and set the >> append in yaboot.conf to just plain “ ro”. I’m attaching /var/log/dmesg and >> /var/log/Xorg.0.log incase they have clues. I notice some mentions of >> “nouveau” in the Xorg.0.log file. Is this expected? >> >> Thanks! >> Rick >> >> >> >> >> > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/25b521c1-cdaf-4f73-b7e4-6b21be137...@pobox.com
