On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 12:13:35PM -0400, Steven Grunza wrote: > Does anyone know if the nouveau driver will work with an old G5 PowerPC and > the GeForce FX G05200 it originally used? > > The last time I tried it had numerous problems (no graphics, kernel panics, > etc). > > lsusb reports the video card as: > > NVIDIA Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX Go5200] (rev a1) > > > Various versions of jessie failed in various ways. Does Stretch have a > different version of the nouveau driver? Since the machine is PowerPC I > can't use the NVIDIA driver.
my understanding is that it does NOT work with a 64bit kernel with a page size other than 4K, which means the kernel currently in Debian does not work. Someone has posted a link on the list to a kernel built with 4K pages that is supposed to work. I think that is the current state of things. -- Len Sorensen
