Re: PowerMac7,3 DualG5 with [AMD/ATI] RV360 [Radeon 9600/X1050 Series] GPU not loading firmware...

> On Nov 6, 2021, at 9:53 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > Not sure why that didn't work for you, it always worked fine for me when I > tested it. I suspect I know what might have happened. When I first installed debian 64b from the 2021-04-17 image onto the DualG5, it would not

Re: PowerMac7,3 DualG5 with [AMD/ATI] RV360 [Radeon 9600/X1050 Series] GPU not loading firmware...

Hello! On 11/6/21 17:11, Ken Cunningham wrote: > However, updating the grub.cfg to actually use it is a manual step that I > didn’t > know about/realize I would need to do, so after doing that: > > sudo /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > The system now boots from the new, proper

Re: libffi illegal instruction - again

Thank you for the hint! — that work just perfectly. Best, Ken > On Nov 3, 2021, at 11:01 AM, Cameron MacPherson > wrote: > > you have to add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list to get the > experimental packages > > deb http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/ >

Re: PowerMac7,3 DualG5 with [AMD/ATI] RV360 [Radeon 9600/X1050 Series] GPU not loading firmware...

Thank you for the clue! My knowledge of the inner workings of debian is nascent but growing. With that clue, I noticed that after installing the firmware packages a new initrd.img was automatically helpfully generated, and the new image does contain the needed firmware as you point out. old:

Re: X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

Hi Stan! > On Nov 6, 2021, at 3:19 PM, Stan Johnson wrote: > Kernel developers have found the bug in the "bad commit" that was > identified above. Details can be found in the > linuxppc-...@lists.ozlabs.org mailing list. > > Since I'm not a kernel developer, I have no idea when the bug correctio

Re: PowerMac7,3 DualG5 with [AMD/ATI] RV360 [Radeon 9600/X1050 Series] GPU not loading firmware...

On 11/6/21 08:31, Ken Cunningham wrote: > I suspect I might have to create a new kernel with this firmware embedded in > it? > > https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/loading-firmware-into-kernel-at-boot-4175495624/ No, you need to make sure your initramfs contains the firmware.

Re: PowerMac7,3 DualG5 with [AMD/ATI] RV360 [Radeon 9600/X1050 Series] GPU not loading firmware...

Hello Ken! On 11/6/21 01:47, Ken Cunningham wrote: > $ ls -la /lib/firmware/radeon/R3* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2048 Aug 24 08:46 /lib/firmware/radeon/R300_cp.bin > > (...) > [2.627772] radeon :f0:10.0: firmware: failed to load > radeon/R300_cp.bin (-2) > [2.627802] radeon :f0:10.

Re: PowerMac7,3 DualG5 with [AMD/ATI] RV360 [Radeon 9600/X1050 Series] GPU not loading firmware...

I suspect I might have to create a new kernel with this firmware embedded in it? https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/loading-firmware-into-kernel-at-boot-4175495624/