I have an eMac G4 too and it saddens me not to be able to install an up to date operating system on it.
As far as I understand, the problem is related to video drivers. More specifically to the fact that at some point there was a shift towards KMS (Kernel Mode Setting) video drivers that is not compatible with that particular machine. I suppose it is something related both to the old radeon chipset and to the CRT monitor. But I am not sure. If you do not need X, you can still use it in console mode. If you need X, maybe you can use radeon drivers, but without accelleration. I mentioned this problem to this list several years ago, but at the time I was not able to find a real solution [1]. Up to this date, I still use Wheezy on that machine. If someone has an idea to make it work again with sid, I am willing to make tests. I would also like to test the new grub on that eMac, but I did not had the will/heart to format the hard drive with the working wheezy on it. But I will format it if it can be useful. Regards [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2016/06/msg00136.html Il 22/04/19 04:41, Alex McKeever ha scritto: > Subject says it all. Don’t have this problem with FreeBSD, but then again I > wouldn’t have the packages issue that FreeBSD has with Fienix’s repository. > > Sent from my iPad >
