The card and monitor both worked fine under mac os x, and the color is fine in the terminal. I'm not sure what would indicate a gpu or monitor error, but they a were both working fine under os x.
Thanks for the suggestion though, I'll try a different cable. Aidan On Wed, Dec 30, 2015, 11:54 AM Brock Wittrock <brockwittr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Have you ruled out the possibility of a hardware issue either with your > monitor, video card port(s), and video cable itself? Sometimes bent or > missing pins on the video cables or loose connections can cause such > problems. Just wanted to throw that out there. > > B-rock > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Aidan Sciortino < > 2001flyingpig...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks, >> >> I have installed the kernel as suggested above, and when I run uname -a >> it returns that the kernel is running, but the graphical errors persist. Do >> I need to do something more? I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to graphics, >> so I may have just gotten it wrong. >> >> Thanks for the help >> >> Aidan Sciortino >> >> On Tue, Dec 29, 2015, 11:09 PM Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Aidan, >>> >>> Welcome to the Debian-on-G5-Macs club! >>> >>> Peter Saisanas has a patched kernel that fixes this problem. >>> >>> Check out this discussion in the mail archives: >>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2015/11/msg00006.html >>> >>> To cut to the chase, >>> 1) download the two ".deb" files at this URL: >>> >>> https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8pqd5Ots1vfaDdaOGJndzU2SlE&usp=sharing&tid=0B8pqd5Ots1vfT2puX09CYjEwcFk >>> do the following steps as root >>> 2) do a "dpkg -i" on each of these ".deb" files. >>> 3) do "update-initramfs -u" >>> 4) Modify your "/etc/yaboot.conf" file to add a stanza pointing to the >>> new kernel and initrd files in /boot >>> 5) run "ybin" >>> 6) reboot and select the new yaboot option you created in step 4 >>> >>> You should be good to go >>> >>> I've CC-ed Peter in case he sees anything I've missed here... >>> >>> Rick >>> >>> >>> On 12/29/2015 3:27 PM, Aidan Sciortino wrote: >>> > Hello, >>> > >>> > I've successfully gotten Debian 8 stable up and running on my powermac >>> > g5, but am struggling to get a gui configured. The computer has an >>> > Nvidia fx 5200 graphics card, and I'm using the nouveau driver. The >>> > colors are extremely messed up, and I'm thinking it's a problem with >>> > nouveau. Has anyone else had this problem before? Does anyone know of >>> > a solution? >>> > >>> > Thanks >>> > >>> > Aidan >>> > -- >>> > Aidan Sciortino >>> > Inventor >>> > Engineer >>> > Dreamer >>> >>> -- >> Aidan Sciortino >> Inventor >> Engineer >> Dreamer >> > > -- Aidan Sciortino Inventor Engineer Dreamer
