Re: More debug infos - was: Re: iMac G5 "windfarm"

2021-01-09 Thread Alex Perez
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote on 1/4/2021 1:56 AM: My guess is that this issue can be worked around by zeroing the partition table of the system before installing Debian. Can someone give it a try? I did so, zeroing out my drive first, with the latest 2020-01-03 netinst image, and it seems

Re: iMac G5 "windfarm"

2021-01-09 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Once Linux is fully installed, the system runs quiet when doing nothing (console prompt) and remains quiet when doing several things (also unexpected ones). There were multiple bugs in the windfarm drivers in the upstream kernel such as [1], make sure you

Re: Installing snapshot 2021-01-03 on a PowerMac G5

2021-01-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Johannes! On 1/8/21 9:08 PM, Johannes Brakensiek wrote: > and a happy new year to you. Thanks to Covid19-based restrictions I returned > to a > Mac PPC (PowerMac 11,2) the last days to rejoin the Apple hardware party of > my youth > and do happy compiling on PPC64. Great. Maybe you're int