Hello , today i had a good day -
triple boot my acer aspire with debian stretch - windows 8 - mackintosh / hack ML2 (which is super fast!) and finally could boot decently into a PowerMac G5 linux distro - without big issues - thanks to threes modifications having also a Nvidia 5200 http://www.mintppc.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1289 Thank you all so much for your help - hope now to get kodi and linphone running! Powermac OSX leopard is still my favorite though, because everything works like a wonder. Especially Bluetooth Tethering which i like very much - giving Internet to Phone and Tablet without much fuss. Never was able to get it working on Windows - but i am not such a passionate user, though. Hopefully it will be possible to integrate a valid Bluetooth solution into the PPC Laptop - that would be wonderful! All the Best Rich Am Dec 30, 2015 um 9:44 PM schrieb Peter Saisanas <psaisa...@gmail.com>: > Hi Aidan, > > Please use this 3.18.16 kernel. Link below: > https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8pqd5Ots1vffmY5ZnpGUDg4UGNnVFk2M05tQUtEUUkwUmhmQWdLMWpfZGVraDIxSFltb1k > > Please post a complete dmesg log. (Please dont grep anything, i mean a > complete dmesg log). > > Also please post the output of "cat /proc/interrupts". > > I think a step has been missed where the msi interrupts are required to be > disabled. this is required for PMAC's with PCIe (PMAC 11.2). > Perhaps MSI interrupts may or may not be required for AGP based GPU's. > > I take it your machine is an AGP + PCIx Powermac G5? > > Hopefully the two logs mentioned may shed some light on the issue and > hopefully help sort out your problem. > I assume you already have a kernel running with a 4k pagesize? > > Regards, > Peter > > On 31/12/15 03:57, Aidan Sciortino wrote: >> 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 >
