Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

2015-06-09 Thread Dylan
That's what I did. Have lxde running, seems to be doing pretty good, idling ~8% and 323MB. On June 9, 2015 6:59:48 PM CDT, Herminio Hernandez Jr wrote: >Use LXDE or XFCE. They are much more lightweight and you will have a >better experience. > >On Tue, 09 Jun 2015 18:20:23 -0500 >Dylan wrote:

Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

2015-06-09 Thread Herminio Hernandez Jr
LXDE is a great DE and also very customizable On Tue, 09 Jun 2015 19:54:57 -0500 Dylan wrote: > That's what I did. Have lxde running, seems to be doing pretty good, idling > ~8% and 323MB. > > On June 9, 2015 6:59:48 PM CDT, Herminio Hernandez Jr > wrote: > >Use LXDE or XFCE. They are much

Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

2015-06-09 Thread Herminio Hernandez Jr
Use LXDE or XFCE. They are much more lightweight and you will have a better experience. On Tue, 09 Jun 2015 18:20:23 -0500 Dylan wrote: > That actually worked. It's REALLY slow in software rendering though, might > have to install kde or something :( > > Thanks, > Dylan > > On June 9, 2015 9

Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

2015-06-09 Thread Dylan
That actually worked. It's REALLY slow in software rendering though, might have to install kde or something :( Thanks, Dylan On June 9, 2015 9:15:56 AM CDT, Brock Wittrock wrote: >On my dual core G5, I have to disable hardware acceleration when using >the >nouveau driver by adding this to my ya

Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

2015-06-09 Thread Brock Wittrock
On my dual core G5, I have to disable hardware acceleration when using the nouveau driver by adding this to my yaboot parameters. nouveau.noaccel=1 If that works, you'll want to add this to your /etc/yaboot.conf file as the last line under your default kernel (probably named Linux) as well to make

Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

2015-06-09 Thread Dylan
Computer is a Late 05 G5 Tower PowerPC Dual Core 2.0 2GB Ram Random 160Gig HD Geforce 6600 Graphics Trying to run Debian 8 Jessie -official Powerpc Chose Cinnamon on Install I have installed Jessie but it boots to a scrambled black and white screen. I can get into terminal from this screen and wo