Re: Video Problem?

2011-10-07 Thread David Lowe
On 7 Oct, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Risto Suominen wrote: > This disables the non-existent TV output and allows the driver to use > suitable frequency values instead. > > BTW, how did you get around it, David? I wish i knew. Apparently it fixed itself! X=D I'd put the issue on the back burn

Re: Question about compatibility...

2011-10-07 Thread John Ames
On 10/7/11, Brian Morris wrote: > NO ! Many of these have a bad slot which does not work ! So get one that > already has the slot filled ! I'm getting a refurbished unit with a 30-day guarantee, if I get one with a bad SODIMM slot I'll just send it back. Thanks for the tip, though. On 10/7/11, Br

Re: Question about compatibility...

2011-10-07 Thread Brian Morris
You are running unstable, just wait and you will see something critical break. Good luck. On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Mandrantosoa 'Ndrianiaina wrote: > I'm on wheezy/sid on a PowerBook G4 15" 1.67/1.5GHz for everyday use. > > Everything does work correctly but the grahic card has some > is

Re: Question about compatibility...

2011-10-07 Thread Brian Morris
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:51 PM, John Ames wrote: > On 10/6/11, Brian Morris wrote: > > if you get the 15", make sure it has the full RAM in case you want it > > someday. I have one with the common defect of the bad 2nd slot. > Oh, naturally. I had both a 1GB DDR stick (for the 12") and 2x 1GB >

Re: Video Problem?

2011-10-07 Thread Risto Suominen
2011/9/21, David Lowe : > I recently put 6.0.2.1 on a PowerMac G5. The install seemed to go well, > but the reboot on this machine gives me just a blank screen. I get normal > video from yaboot, and normal video from OSX, but nothing from Squeeze. In > fact, the monitor tells me it's not e

Re: Question about compatibility...

2011-10-07 Thread John Ames
Hmm. As long as it's not an insurmountable obstacle, I think I might go ahead and go for the 12" model after all. On 10/7/11, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > I collected it. My users of MintPPC reported recently that nouveau has > problems but that if you use nv, it works like a charm. > > > > Op 7/10/2

Re: Question about compatibility...

2011-10-07 Thread Mandrantosoa 'Ndrianiaina
I'm on wheezy/sid on a PowerBook G4 15" 1.67/1.5GHz for everyday use. Everything does work correctly but the grahic card has some issues with KMS, gallium ... but everything was OK with squeeze (with 2.6.32 kernel) On squeeze, I've got DRI with radeon.agpmode=-1 Tosoa. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Question about compatibility...

2011-10-07 Thread Stephane Louise
> Can anybody confirm whether this works or > not? I'd assume it must, if they bothered to put it there... If your question is about the status of NVidia drivers on the PPC plateform, I can tell you that my Quad G5 had always worked fine first with the nv drivers, then with the Nouveau drivers sin

Re: Question about compatibility...

2011-10-07 Thread John Ames
Hmm, interesting. http://mac.linux.be/files/xorg/powerbook4.txt appears to be for exactly the model I'd like to get, the 1.5GHz 12" Powerbook, using nouveau. (It seems it supports all the way down to monochrome colordepth!?!?) Can anybody confirm whether this works or not? I'd assume it must, if th

Re: Question about compatibility...

2011-10-07 Thread Jeroen Diederen
Have a look here, you will lots of xorg.conf files I collected over the years. What I found out is that nouveau does not work well, but the old nv driver works fine for nvidia cards: http://mac.linux.be/content/xorgconf-files Op 7/10/2011 schreef "John Ames" : >On 10/6/11, Brian Morris wrote: >