Re: Report on Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5 with custom kernel, Graphics Issues

2015-07-09 Thread Rick Thomas
Changing to the other DVI connector and rebooting got me a working video screen. When I logged in and ran “startx” I got a desktop with the expected stuff, though the colors are kind of odd. I’m attaching the output of commands “dmesg”, “journalctl -b” and the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log i

Re: Report on Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5 with custom kernel, Graphics Issues

2015-07-09 Thread Rick Thomas
Good point! I'll do that as soon as I get home! On Jul 9, 2015, at 1:15 PM, Peter Saisanas wrote: > What about trying the other dvi connector? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arc

Re: Report on Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5 with custom kernel, Graphics Issues

2015-07-09 Thread Peter Saisanas
What about trying the other dvi connector? On 10/07/2015 5:53 AM, "Rick Thomas" wrote: > The USB to RS-232 Serial Device is there so I can use the G5 as a serial > console for a SheevaPlug. I can temporarily remove it and see what > happens. I have a similar hookup on a G4 mac mini with no prob

Re: Report on Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5 with custom kernel, Graphics Issues

2015-07-09 Thread Rick Thomas
The USB to RS-232 Serial Device is there so I can use the G5 as a serial console for a SheevaPlug. I can temporarily remove it and see what happens. I have a similar hookup on a G4 mac mini with no problems… As far as what happens after yaboot executes the kernel: Yes, I have the usual scrol

Re: Report on Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5 with custom kernel, Graphics Issues

2015-07-09 Thread Peter Saisanas
Hi Rick, Hmmm, You have a USB to RS-232 converter along with a USB3 PCIe card? Is this correct? Do you happen to have anything displayed on the screen after yaboot executes the kernel? I.e. the OpenFirmware framebuffer console? It seems that early on, the Debian config tries to setup a cons