Re: Big-Endian testers wanted: Sonic Pi (in Debian testing)

2016-03-06 Thread Aidan Sciortino
. I've got a PowerMac G5 (64-bit, bigendian PowerPC) > machine running Debian stretch/testing with a custom kernel from Peter > Saisanas to deal with the NvidiaNvidia graphics card. With alsaplayer it > produces good sound thru the on-board speakers. > > What would you like me to do by way of testing your program? > > Enjoy! > Rick > -- Aidan Sciortino Inventor Engineer Dreamer

Re: 32bit PowerPC

2016-02-09 Thread Aidan Sciortino
s, I may even be able to cover some of > the > >> shipping. > > > > Lots of people work with 32 bit powerpc embedded systems. No idea if > > anyone would have any use for a laptop doing it though. > > > > -- > > Len Sorensen > > > > -- Aidan Sciortino Hacker, Inventor, Dreamer, Engineer

Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

2016-02-05 Thread Aidan Sciortino
t; > > Reboot and if all goes well, you should be booting with kernel 4.3.0 > and lightdm login should pop up. > > > > > > Up to you, but If you switch to sid repositories, mesa 11.0.5 is > available and you should be able to get OpenGL working with nouveau and > your particular GPU. > > > > > > Google drive link for kernel debs below: > > > > > > > https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8pqd5Ots1vfT2puX09CYjEwcFk&usp=sharing > > > > > > Please let me know how you go. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Peter > > > > > > -- > Clive Menzies > Political Economist > +44 (0) 7836 601378 > > -- Aidan Sciortino Inventor Engineer Dreamer

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

Re: Powermac g5 strange colors with gui

2016-01-03 Thread Aidan Sciortino
e PowerMac11,2 "Late 2005", both are Dual 2.0 GHz machines.) > > Thanks, > Andreas. > > > Am 2016-01-03 um 08:08 schrieb Peter Saisanas: > > Hi Andreas, > > Unless the kernel dmesg logs are lying, the Powermac G5 (11.2) uses > > the SMU and the

Re: Powermac g5 strange colors with gui

2016-01-02 Thread Aidan Sciortino
nstall=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot > magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot > enablecdboot > > image=/vmlinux > label=Linux > read-only > initrd=/initrd.img > > image=/vmlinux.old > label=old > read-only > initrd=/initrd.img.old &

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 <

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 &g

Re: Powermac g5 strange colors with gui

2015-12-30 Thread Aidan Sciortino
P + PCIx Powermac G5? > > Hopefully the two logs mentioned may shed some light on the issue and > hopefully help sort out your problem. > I assume you already have a kernel running with a 4k pagesize? > > Regards, > Peter > > > On 31/12/15 03:57, Aidan Sciortino wrote

Re: Powermac g5 strange colors with gui

2015-12-30 Thread Aidan Sciortino
that out there. > > B-rock > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Aidan Sciortino < > 2001flyingpig...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks, >> >> I have installed the kernel as suggested above, and when I run uname -a >> it returns that the kernel is runnin

Re: Powermac g5 strange colors with gui

2015-12-30 Thread Aidan Sciortino
e new yaboot option you created in step 4 > > You should be good to go > > I've CC-ed Peter in case he sees anything I've missed here... > > Rick > > > On 12/29/2015 3:27 PM, Aidan Sciortino wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've successfully gott

Powermac g5 strange colors with gui

2015-12-29 Thread Aidan Sciortino
em with nouveau. Has anyone else had this problem before? Does anyone know of a solution? Thanks Aidan -- Aidan Sciortino Inventor Engineer Dreamer