Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-01-14 Thread Peter Saisanas
Hi Logan, On the positive, you do not seem to be having any more EDID issues once you have switched to the other LCD screen. But this line seems a worry: [ 27.168859] nouveau :f0:10.0: gr: intr 0010 [ERROR] nsource 0010 [LIMIT_COLOR] nstatus 0400 [PROTECTION_FAULT] ch 1 [0008e00

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-01-14 Thread Aidan Sciortino
Logan, I believe that there is a 4.4.0 rc7 kernel up on that same page. I have a single core 1.8ghz, and that kernel did the trick for me. The 3.18 version had the same networking problems for me. Hope I could be of help! Aidan Sciortino On Thu, Jan 14, 2016, 6:12 PM Logan Anteau wrote: > Pet

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-01-14 Thread Logan Anteau
Peter, I have installed your 4.4.0 kernel. With the same monitor I was using before I get this dmesg log (seems to be about the same issue). Same EDID issue with the other DVI port too: http://pastebin.com/NJDvK56K I tried another monitor and I get a black screen that eventually has white,purple

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-01-14 Thread Peter Saisanas
Hi Logan, Not sure if you have intentionally disabled MSI interrupts for nouveau, but i believe the MSI interrupts only need to be disabled for PCIe based nVidia gpu's running the nouveau driver on Powermac G5's only. I have my doubts that AGP based nVidia GPU's ever have MSI interrupts enable

Re: Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-01-14 Thread Logan Anteau
Peter, Thanks for your suggestions. Here's a pastebin of my /proc/interrupts: http://pastebin.com/2ZG4qESD I'll try one of your newer kernels either tonight or tomorrow when I get time. I believe I tried your 3.8.16 kernel and had other issues with it. Networking didn't work out of the box, the

Re: Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-01-14 Thread Peter Saisanas
Hi Logan, The kernel version is quite old (3.16.7). Perhaps you can try something newer. Nouveau continually has improvements practically with each newer kernel version. Perhaps something to consider, try the easy way out and use a pre-compiled kernel deb package that i have available. I have