Wheezy for my experience is the only one distro who worked without problems on
Quad G5 with nvidia boardthe only tip i can say put the linux as the first hd
slot a on G5 Quad for the remaining all was working on an 7800gtx flashed too.
on nvidia 6600 al was good.radeon was gave problems but you need to boot the
system with kernel appends... like is radeon.agpmode=-1 or radeon.modeset=1 or
video=radeonfb:on
What im facing today is with all distros and all flawors is the bug of xorg
with dual gfx boards from jessie to sid and all ubuntu flawors ... this was my
last post on ubuntu forums about
this bug effected all the PPC world i think because it is in the X5000 too.What
i discovered :if i set radeon.modeset=0 nouveau.modeset=1xorg turn on the
radeon driver and turn off the nouveau.... but because the radeon driver is off
by the kernel the result is the black screen.same is if i set radeon.modeset=1
nouveau.modeset=0setting the two boards as 1 .... i have te fbdev working on
radeon (?) but xorg dont find video boards.if i set the two as 0 nothing
woking but xorg --configure set the new xorg with the two video boards.... This
bug was present since 15.0 of (X) (L) (mate)ubuntu ... and now one had been
fixed it ...
CiaoLuigi
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 20:36:27 -0500
Subject: Re: Wheezy
From: brockwittr...@gmail.com
To: steven.gru...@gmail.com
CC: risto.suomi...@gmail.com; debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
So the initial install of Wheezy went okay? Do you mean the crash happened
while updating your /etc/yaboot.conf file with the new initrd info? Can you
boot into rescue mode off of the installer and mount your /boot and update
things accordingly?
If you'd like, we can try and work through the Jessie install again as well. I
was hoping to reply sooner but am just getting to it now.
Brock
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 7:39 PM, Steven Grunza <steven.gru...@gmail.com> wrote:
Killed the machine. :(
While trying to change the symlinks in /boot to point to the new initrd the
nouveau driver crashed the OS causing a panic and reboot.
Since the initrd file is not defined in /boot the machine is no longer bootable.
I've installed debian and ubuntu about five or six times each, trying different
flavors, etc. None work.
I'm starting to understand while the machine was given away for free....
On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 2:49 AM, Risto Suominen <risto.suomi...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I don't know the answer, but I doubt it would help because the problem
(those 64k pages) has been there for quite long.
What went wrong with the 4.4.0-rc7-powerpc64 kernel?
Risto
