On 02/05/2017 12:12 AM, dev_user wrote: > The first of many little problems that I hit is that the nouveau driver > is just terrible and all I see on the screen is a very very messed up pile of > what > looks like static. So there is no GUI no graphical login at all that works. I > created a file in /etc/modprobe.d/ thus :
nouveau is problematic on PowerPC. If upgrading to the latest kernel doesn't help, I recommend using a different graphics adapter. > So question one is how do I edit the /etc/apt/sources.list to get a valid > repo site somewhere for packages? Nothing I seem to enter there works at all > and > I only ever see ( after a lot of hang time ) this message : > > root@charon:/etc/apt# cat /etc/apt/sources.list > # > #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Stretch_ - Official Snapshot powerpc > DVD Binary-1 20161031-06:51]/ stretch main > > deb http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free > deb-src http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free > deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib > What content do I need in the /etc/apt/sources.list file to get a repo that > supports powerpc ? There is no Stretch for powerpc. You have to use "unstable" instead: > deb http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > deb-src http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free This will work. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
