Hi Steven, On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 9:24 PM, Lennart Sorensen <lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > 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.
That's correct. You'll need to recompile your kernel and change the option PPC_64K_PAGES: https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2016/05/msg00008.html ATI card should work out of the box. Please note that GNOME/KDE may have other restrictions, so I would suggest you use MATE and/or XFCE instead. -M
