On 09.05.2016 15:44, Rick Thomas wrote: > On May 8, 2016, at 11:06 PM, Mathieu Malaterre <ma...@debian.org> wrote: >> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 12:49 AM, Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> wrote: >> [...] >>> Is there a hardware solution? Is there a non-Nvidia graphics card I >>> could purchase and install in my PowerMac-G5 11,2 that wouldn’t have the >>> problem? I don’t need anything fancy. Just enough to run a simple 2D >>> mate or xfce desktop. >> >> My Mac Mini G4 has a RV280 GPU (“Radeon 9200"), so I know this -somewhat- >> works. > > Thanks… That’s good to know. > > But does it work in a G5 64-bit machine? > > If I understand correctly, that’s the problem with the Nvidia boards — > the nouveau driver doesn’t work in a 64-bit environment with the huge > page option that is native to that environment.
The radeon kernel driver doesn't have the same bug. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com Libre software enthusiast | Mesa and X developer
