On Jun 8, 2016, at 12:13 PM, 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. > > - Steven G.
Debian is still broken when it comes to iMac G5 compatibility. My iMac G5 booted to a command prompt after installing Debian. I think the only fix is to move on to a different distribution like Ubuntu Mate 15.10. It works well on my iMac G5. Just to note, my iMac G5 has a ATI Radeon 9600 in it, so your issues might be different from mine.
