Re: Lenny on Apple 9600 - noobie questions

2009-07-11 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:41:05 -0400 Jeff Fry wrote: > > Thanks for the info. I've been plodding my way through the massive > Debian-PowerPC Installation Guide and have yet to finish. > > I guess the standard procedure must be to go ahead and try to > install, then ask questions here when thi

Re: Making an ATI Radeon X1900 PCIe work on a G5/Quad (or can I?)

2009-07-11 Thread Stephane Louise
Michel Dänzer wrote: Anyway, this looks much closer, maybe the missing information can be hardcoded for your card. You may want to ask on the mailing list referenced above. Thank you for the guiding. I'll try and do that. Best regards, -- Stéphane Louise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-po

Re: Making an ATI Radeon X1900 PCIe work on a G5/Quad (or can I?)

2009-07-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 19:39 +0200, Stephane Louise wrote: > Michel Dänzer wrote: > > With older cards the driver doesn't require any information from the > > ROM, but with newer cards (as of X1xxx) it relies on byte code in the > > ROM (called ATOM BIOS) for low-level initialization and modesetting

Re: Lenny on Apple 9600 - noobie questions

2009-07-11 Thread Jeff Fry
On Jul 10, 2009, at 1:13 PM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: I assume that following Steve Allen's installation method would install a basic version of Lenny, and I would then need to install various additional software applications and drivers? Also, I would additionally install things like Apache2,

Re: Making an ATI Radeon X1900 PCIe work on a G5/Quad (or can I?)

2009-07-11 Thread Stephane Louise
Michel Dänzer wrote: With older cards the driver doesn't require any information from the ROM, but with newer cards (as of X1xxx) it relies on byte code in the ROM (called ATOM BIOS) for low-level initialization and modesetting. I suspect the Mac Edition of the card doesn't have an ATOM BIOS thou

Re: Making an ATI Radeon X1900 PCIe work on a G5/Quad (or can I?)

2009-07-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 18:07 +0200, Stephane Louise wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I'm having troubles making an ATI Radeon X1900 PCIe work on my G5/Quad. > It is the G5 MacEdition (and it works with Mac OS X, tested). [...] > (--) RADEON(0): BIOS at 0xa002 > (II) RADEON(0): PCIE card detected > (

Making an ATI Radeon X1900 PCIe work on a G5/Quad (or can I?)

2009-07-11 Thread Stephane Louise
Hi Everyone, I'm having troubles making an ATI Radeon X1900 PCIe work on my G5/Quad. It is the G5 MacEdition (and it works with Mac OS X, tested). With linux, the computer works, but no luck with the video: it is frozen on the open firmware boot message end (early kernel boot). Of course, I t