Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

2015-06-28 Thread Rick Thomas
Wow! Thanks Peter! I’d pretty much given up on getting nouveau graphics working on my G5 (I plan on using it as a headless server anyway, so graphics is not on the critical path). This gives hope. Here’s the data on my machine… > root@bigal:~# getconf PAGESIZE > 65536 > root@bigal:~# cat /p

Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

2015-06-28 Thread Peter Saisanas
Hi, I also have a Powermac G5 Quad and tried with both the Geforce 6600 and Quadro FX4500 video cards and I have successfully gotten it up and running using the nouveau driver along with 2D acceleration on the XOrg desktop. I have compiled many newer kernels and created debian packages for them.