Re: Powermac g5 strange colors with gui

2015-12-31 Thread Vladimir Berezenko
В письме от 30 декабря 2015 10:54:20 пользователь Brock Wittrock написал: > Have you ruled out the possibility of a hardware issue either with your > monitor, video card port(s), and video cable itself? Sometimes bent or > missing pins on the video cables or loose connections can cause such > prob

Re: Powermac g5 strange colors with gui

2015-12-31 Thread Aidan Sciortino
OK. The gui works after blacklisting NV and enabling nouveau. However, the fans are now at full blast. I've tried the sudo modprobe i2c-powermac but it doesn't seem to control the fans. The new logs are attached. Thanks! Aidan On Thu, Dec 31, 2015, 9:43 AM Aidan Sciortino <2001flyingpig...@gmail.

Re: Powermac g5 strange colors with gui

2015-12-31 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 04:05:07PM +0100, Linux User #330250 wrote: > I've got the same. It is the Original (2003) and "Late 2003". > I had trouble installing Debian on my PowerMac7,2 as I wanted a 64-bit > version. I now understand that you should use the regular PowerPC based > distribution "powe

Re: Powermac g5 strange colors with gui

2015-12-31 Thread Linux User #330250
Thanks. I've got the same. It is the Original (2003) and "Late 2003". I had trouble installing Debian on my PowerMac7,2 as I wanted a 64-bit version. I now understand that you should use the regular PowerPC based distribution "powerpc", not "ppc64el" which is for POWER systems only. My HDD just d

Re: Powermac g5 strange colors with gui

2015-12-31 Thread Aidan Sciortino
This is actually a powermac 7,2 not a 9,1. I'm going to install that kernel later. Thanks for the advice Aidan Sciortino On Thu, Dec 31, 2015, 4:16 AM Linux User #330250 wrote: > Sorry to interrupt… > > I always thought that the 1.8 GHz Late 2004 model (PowerMac9,1) was the > only Power Mac G

Re: Powermac g5 strange colors with gui

2015-12-31 Thread Linux User #330250
Sorry to interrupt… I always thought that the 1.8 GHz Late 2004 model (PowerMac9,1) was the only Power Mac G5 ever to use a SMU instead of a PMU. It is the one that internally uses iMac technology (bus ration 3:1). All other Power Mac G5 machines use a PMU. Including the last Late 2005 PCI-Expres