Hello, On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:48:57 +0200 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have just created updated installation images for Debian Ports. Thank you very much for your hard work on Debian Ports and PowerPC support. > With these images, the issue with the console not working on powerpc > and ppc64 has finally been fixed such that an installation should work > normally. At least a very quick test on QEMU with an emulated > PowerMac G5 worked fine. I can confirm that installation worked perfectly on my G5 (with ISO burned to CD). I selected the MATE desktop environment and this all installed correctly with my system booting straight into lightdm login without any Xorg problems. The modesetting driver is used because nouveau is not installed by default. Adding it results in a problem described before [1]. In this state, attempting to restart lightdm produces a corrupted picture. I also see these messages: nouveau 0000:f0:10.0: Xorg[753]: reloc wait_idle failed: -16 nouveau 0000:f0:10.0: Xorg[753]: reloc apply: -16 I also inconsistently saw "GPU is missing power, check its power cables. Boot with nouveau.config=NvPowerChecks=0 to disable" which prevented any display from working. Power is of course only from the AGP Pro slot for this machine. Overall, I'd say leaving out nouveau by default is the right idea, as it is not in a working state. Default installed programs work (e.g. libreoffice), with the exception of the default browser firefox. This gives the usual segmentation fault. I also tried installing the ESR version without success. Konqueror can also be installed, but it too fails. For reference, I was able to get a working browser by following these instructions [1]. Audio was not working. There was no sound regardless of volume level in the sound control GUI. I was able to fix this by going into alsamixer and and setting PCM to 50, as it was initially set to 0. Overall performance seems to be better than the last time I did a fresh installation. Although I'm now using a PCI-X G5 with the Nvidia FX 5200, versus a PCI G5 with an ATI Radeon 9600. Previously I saw messages about AGP running in PCI mode, which may have caused GUI slowness. James [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2025/04/msg00026.html [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2023/11/msg00013.html
