Re: wanted: old G5 (Nvidia FX5200 AGP nouveau)

2015-02-09 Thread Boris Reinhard
Heya guys, I also would like to thank Clemens Duerrschmidt again for his kind donation of his G5 PowerMac9,1 (single core G5, 1.8 GhZ, 600 MhZ fsb, AGP variant). :) It's already well put to testing, the situation with the Nvidia FX 5200 AGP card is quite messy however, there are multiple bug repo

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-09 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Mon, 09 Feb 2015 14:27:02 -0200 Breno Leitao wrote: > Hi Konstantinos, Hi Breno, > Thanks for being interested in it. I am also willing to help. > > Why not using a remote VM on a new POWER machine hosted at Unicamp? Already have 2 of those, one ppc64el and one ppc32 (but on ppc64 hardware)

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-09 Thread Breno Leitao
Hi Konstantinos, Thanks for being interested in it. I am also willing to help. Why not using a remote VM on a new POWER machine hosted at Unicamp? You have been doing so using the IBM POWER mini cloud[1], and the mini cloud will continue to exist for long. In fact, the minicloud has some idle r

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port [SOLVED]

2015-02-09 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 21:44:44 +0200 Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to help on the ppc64 port, I have ppc32 hardware, > ppc64/ppc64el remote VM accounts but no actual ppc64 hardware. I > just lost an extremely low bid for an imac g5 on ebay and am short > on cash for another,