Re: Mate Desktop crashes

2024-01-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello, On Tue, 2024-01-23 at 14:24 -0700, Stan Johnson wrote: > On my PowerMac G5, I had to replace a failed Radeon card with a low-end > Nvidia card, and I was no longer able to test Debian powerpc64 kernels > because the kernel was missing the needed CONFIG options: > > *** Aug 31, 2023 kernel

Re: Mate Desktop crashes

2024-01-23 Thread Stan Johnson
Hello Adrian and Christoph, On 1/23/24 1:43 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello Christoph, > > On Tue, 2024-01-23 at 21:21 +0100, Christoph wrote: >> here the log files for Xorg.0.log, .xsession-errors and dmesg command. There >> seem to be a lot of errors in it that indicate a bug with

Re: Mate Desktop crashes

2024-01-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Christoph, On Tue, 2024-01-23 at 21:21 +0100, Christoph wrote: > here the log files for Xorg.0.log, .xsession-errors and dmesg command. There > seem to be a lot of errors in it that indicate a bug with the nouveau driver. Looking at the output of "dmesg", this actually indicates problems wi

Re: Mate Desktop crashes

2024-01-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Christoph, On Tue, 2024-01-23 at 18:19 +0100, Christoph wrote: > Hello, im actually running Debian 12 on a Powermac G5 Quad with a > Geforce 6600 with Mate Desktop. (I could only install this desktop > because the installations fails if i try another) I am using XFCE which works even fine on m

Re: Debian 12 on iMac G5

2024-01-23 Thread Claudia Neumann
Great! Thanx Claudia Am Dienstag, 23. Januar 2024, 18:42:03 CET schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: > Hello Claudia, > > On Tue, 2024-01-23 at 17:59 +0100, Claudia Neumann wrote: > > I choose > > debian-11.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso > > from 14.5.2023. > > > > I can start the installation, partition

Re: Debian 12 on iMac G5

2024-01-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Claudia, On Tue, 2024-01-23 at 17:59 +0100, Claudia Neumann wrote: > I choose > debian-11.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso > from 14.5.2023. > > I can start the installation, partitioning has succeeded. > it installs busybox but hangs with: > package zstd is not available. There is a reference from

Mate Desktop crashes

2024-01-23 Thread Christoph
Hello, im actually running Debian 12 on a Powermac G5 Quad with a Geforce 6600 with Mate Desktop. (I could only install this desktop because the installations fails if i try another) Suddenly it crashes randomly and most times some Text is shown as skin coloredblocks. If i use the Desktop over R

Re: Debian 12 on iMac G5

2024-01-23 Thread Claudia Neumann
Hi Adrian, I choose debian-11.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso from 14.5.2023. I can start the installation, partitioning has succeeded. it installs busybox but hangs with: package zstd is not available. There is a reference from another package. The installation stopped. Any suggesttions? Should I choo

Re: Debian 12 on iMac G5

2024-01-23 Thread Federico Vaga
Hi Claudia, perhaps there is a misunderstanding. I'm trying Debian 12 ppc64 Big-Endian. My suggestion to you is to try the proposed fix from the fienixppc team. I report here what is mentioned in their article (I copy only what is of interest to you). ``` [...] the system shows only a black

Re: Debian 12 on iMac G5

2024-01-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Claudia, On Tue, 2024-01-23 at 15:39 +0100, Claudia Neumann wrote: > Hi all, hi Adrian, > > downloaded the image and burnt on DVD. Now the iMac starts from DVD but hangs > with: > smp_core99_probe > smp_core99_bringup_done > the ventilator is up high but nothing else happens. > > I have ATI

Re: Debian 12 on iMac G5

2024-01-23 Thread Claudia Neumann
Hi Federico, if it didn't work for you, I would rather try with Debian. CU Claudia Am Dienstag, 23. Januar 2024, 15:05:06 CET schrieb Federico Vaga: > Hi Claudia and all, > > this is a very interesting coincidence. I've started trying a couple of > days > a go to install Debian 12 on the same i

Re: Debian 12 on iMac G5

2024-01-23 Thread Federico Vaga
Hi Claudia and all, this is a very interesting coincidence. I've started trying a couple of days a go to install Debian 12 on the same iMac. In my case, I'm booting the netinst image from USB but the kernel crashes somewhere. The screen is not refreshed after a few kernel messages, so I was

Re: Debian 12 on iMac G5

2024-01-23 Thread Claudia Neumann
Hi all, hi Adrian, downloaded the image and burnt on DVD. Now the iMac starts from DVD but hangs with: smp_core99_probe smp_core99_bringup_done the ventilator is up high but nothing else happens. I have ATI Radeon X600 (Rev 380) 3E50 (PCIE) Any hints? Claudia Am Dienstag, 23. Januar 2024, 14:

Re: Debian 12 on iMac G5

2024-01-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Claudia, On Tue, 2024-01-23 at 14:54 +0100, Claudia Neumann wrote: > I have an iMac G5, PowerMac 12,1 PPC970FX, Platform: PowerMac 12,1 MacRISC4 > Power Macinstosh, Memory 1GB+384MB. > > I had installed Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS and it was running fine. Now I need newer > libc and so on. So I wanted

Debian 12 on iMac G5

2024-01-23 Thread Claudia Neumann
Hi all, I have an iMac G5, PowerMac 12,1 PPC970FX, Platform: PowerMac 12,1 MacRISC4 Power Macinstosh, Memory 1GB+384MB. I had installed Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS and it was running fine. Now I need newer libc and so on. So I wanted to install Debian 12 or even Debian 13 on this iMac. Is that possible?