who have benefitted from your work, a big “Thank you!”
Enjoy!
Rick
On Jan 14, 2016, at 12:42 AM, Peter Saisanas wrote:
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.
Hi Darren,
I don't have a iMac G5 to tinker with, but according to your description
it sounds like the OFfb console display seems fine up until the nouveau
module loads and after the nouveau console handover occurs, the display
seems to get distorted on the built-in LCD afterwards. Have i corr
It's been a while since I've played with powerpc - how and where to I
append the kernel parameter? Is it in yaboot or elsehwere?
Append the kernel parameters within the /etc/yaboot.conf file
A typical yaboot boot entry with the mentioned appended kernel
parameters applied would like like below:
On 07/02/16 21:34, Peter Saisanas wrote:
Do you happen to have an xorg.conf? if so, please remove it.
Xorg should probe for your screens and not need an xorg.conf.
It shouldn't need any kernel parameters passed But stranger
things have happened!
Thanks for your help
Hi Rick
It seems to be related to the DVI port; DVI-I-1 works but DVI-I-2
doesn't. When I swap the monitors around it's the non-mac one which
works.
$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 4096 x 4096
DVI-I-1 connected primary 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted righ
snd-powermac is not built in for a reason..
snd-aoa is the newer driver and supports the G5's better.
snd-aoa and snd-powermac modules conflict and to save from people
blacklisting modules, i removed the older snd-powermac from the build
config.
snd-aoa should work straight away. if it doesn't,
orted quite a while ago Just wait and see for
the fix I guess!
Cheers,
Peter
On 07/02/16 08:42, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 07:52:37AM +1100, Peter Saisanas wrote:
Hi Clive,
Glad you got your G5 up and running!
Regarding my config, currently am running 4.5.0-rc2 kernel,
Hi Richard,
In my opinion, the best way to install Debian would be to just install
using a Jessie release.
When installing, ensure you install an SSH server in addition to be able
to login via another computer if you happen to have display issues
(which you probably will).
I believe the stre
Hi Logan,
Oh well, cant say we didn't try everything!
So from my recollection, currently the status of Apple OEM or FCODE
flashed nVidia GPU's reported working with nouveau on PPC G5's:
AGP: GeForce 5200.
PCIe: GeForce 6600, GeForce 7800GT, GeForce 7800GTX, Quadro FX4500.
Obviously this is wi
Hi Clive,
Glad you got your G5 up and running!
Regarding my config, currently am running 4.5.0-rc2 kernel, xfce desktop
and on Debian stretch (testing) repo's.
As a side note, on the testing repo's, the only package that I
personally have noticed that has broken and affected me recently is
Hi Anton,
Ok, a few more things to try, I have googled around and found an old
post on the mintppc forum.
Bear in mind this is from 2012 This may or may not still be relevant
or current info, but give it a go.
http://www.mintppc.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=810&start=10
According to t
Hi Logan,
I was hoping that you would reply, i'm curious what your issue is with
nouveau.
I did see that you have placed a message on the nouveau mailing list,
good stuff!
For others interested on the Debian PPC mailing list, i have copied the
link to your message on the nouveau mailing list
ny future PMAC 7.2 users with the GeForce
> 6800 as well. Do you have any other ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Logan
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 7:29 PM, Peter Saisanas
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Logan,
>> On the positive, you do not seem to be having any more EDID issues once
>
4.0 is
> uninstallable because it depends on a version of libncurses5 >= 6 (5.9 is
> installed) and libtinfo5 >= 6 (5.9 is installed). Hopefully this new
> information helps. Let me know what I can try next...
>
> Logan
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Peter Sais
3 kernels a try though and report back. Unless you
have any intermediate recommendations first.
Logan
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 3:42 AM, Peter Saisanas <mailto:psaisa...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Logan,
The kernel version is quite old (3.16.7). Perhaps you can try
something newer.
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
Thanks for your feedback Len.
You explained how the glibc optimisations work in a manner making it
easy for me to understand.
Much appreciated!
Regards,
Peter
Hi Brock,
I have tried lmbench and recompiled glibc 2.21-6 with -O3 and -O2
optimizations with the cflags below:
extra_cflags = -mcpu=G5 -mtune=G5 -maltivec -mabi=altivec
I haven't actually seen any marked difference to the results coming out
of lmbench when using the default Debian glibc and
Hi,
Ok, i have modified the debian rules file for glibc 2.21-6 and recompiled.
I have built this package essentially with the cflags: -O3 together with
the following extra line below:
extra_cflags = -mcpu=G5 -mtune=G5 -maltivec -mabi=altivec
Ill be the first to admit that i haven't played aro
Hi Andreas,
I'm no expert, but perhaps a full dmesg log can help diagnose along with
the output of cat /proc/interrupts.
You probably already are aware of this, but make sure that nv is
blacklisted as nouveau and nv conflict.
Lastly, remember the hardware is over 10 y.o. it may be a hardware i
Hi,
This has been playing in my mind for a while and wondering if i could
get some feedback from others.
I assume glibc typically available in the Debian repo's has been
compiled for a generic ppc32 target and the ricer in me wants to try and
extract some more performance.
If i were to reco
Hi Andreas,
The default ppc64 kernel as supplied by Debian has been configured with
64KB kernel pagesizes. At least valid since the last time i have checked.
I have been building my own kernels for a while, haven't used a default
Debian kernel for a while.
I believe the change to the default De
being thorough, please check the yaboot.conf entry
for the 4.4.0-rc7 kernel and initrd
Who knows, it could be something as trivial as a typo. you never know!
Cheers,
Peter
On 03/01/16 19:28, Rick Thomas wrote:
Hi Peter,
On Jan 2, 2016, at 10:50 PM, Peter Saisanas wrote:
Rick:I
Hi Andreas,
Unless the kernel dmesg logs are lying, the Powermac G5 (11.2) uses the
SMU and the Powermac G5 (7.2) uses the PMU.
Regards,
Peter
g with this email.
Thanks!
Aidan
On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 9:12 PM, Rick Thomas <mailto:rbtho...@pobox.com>> wrote:
Hi Peter,
On Jan 1, 2016, at 4:35 PM, Peter Saisanas mailto:psaisa...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I have also enabled the MD RAID option so hope
Hi Aidan,
If you want to test something out to get your Powermac G5 (7.2) running
without fans at max rpm.
I have built a 4.4.0-rc7 kernel deb package. I have downgraded binutils
to the version from jessie (binutils 2.25-5) which is working.
Thanks for the tip Len.
This is more or less one
nevere gone this deep into a system before.
Thank you so much for the help!
Aidan
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Peter Saisanas <mailto:psaisa...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi Aidan,
Please use this 3.18.16 kernel. Link below:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8pqd5Ots1vffm
mailto:rbtho...@pobox.com>> wrote:
Hi Aidan,
Welcome to the Debian-on-G5-Macs club!
Peter Saisanas has a patched kernel that fixes this problem.
Check out this discussion in the mail archives:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2015/11
ound (very sorry for the long delay!) to testing your 4.3
kernel on my G5.
But I ran into a snag: The 4.3.0 kernel doesn’t seem to have MD (raid)
configured in.
Is there a reason for that? Could you build one that does?
Thanks!
Rick
On Nov 15, 2015, at 12:23 PM, Peter Saisanas wrote:
Hi,
It
Just to clarify,
I meant it should also work for Powermac G5's with AGP graphics (64 bit
cpu's only).
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Peter Saisanas
wrote:
> It sure is for for our machines, i.e. the Powermac G5 11.2 (i.e. with
> PCIe).
> It should also work for the
> I have a powermac 11,2 machine, currently running your 3.18.16 kernel.
> Would this new 4.3.0 kernel work with it? If so, I can give it a try.
>
> Enjoy!
> Rick
>
> On Nov 15, 2015, at 12:23 PM, Peter Saisanas wrote:
>
> > MSI interrupts are enabled again in this kerne
Hi,
It looks like you are not booting from the 3.18.16 kernel.
If you have installed the packages, you need to create an entry for the
new kernel by editing /etc/yaboot.conf and once saved run ybin -v.
Also, i have built a 4.3.0 kernel deb package.
Aside from the newer kernel, it also has a no
Hi,
Just thought i should share some news that since installing mesa 11.0.4
from the sid repo (libg1-mesa-dri & dependencies), OpenGL is now working
for nouveau and ppc.
Tested on PMAC 11.2 (G5 Quad + Quadro FX4500 config).
I wouldn't say it is blistering fast, just performance is on par with
Hi,
Regarding the issue with the nouveau drivers in vanilla kernels >
3.18.16 not being able to read the BIOS / DCB block out of the
OpenFirmware nVidia GPU FCODE ROM.
It seems that there has been some progress on this regression which
affected powermac's with nvidia gpu's.
A patch has bee
Hi Roosevelt,
No worries, were a community, trying to help each other out.
Regarding getting 4.1+ kernels working with nouveau, i have also
provided the workaround for this.
See the link below which i hope i have clearly explained the workaround.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2015/0
Hi,
I have posted a message on the debian powerpc mailing list recently
regarding the nouveau issues along with creating a bug report for the
nouveau developers to look into. Within the freedesktop nouveau bug
report, a nouveau dev explains why it is failing to work in more recent
kernels.
P
Just an FYI, i have posted a bug report to the nouveau developers regarding
the Linux kernels > 3.18 not being able to find the FCODE ROM / DCB block
correctly. This seems to be an issue in getting newer kernels to work
properly with G5 PowerMac machines (probably other models with nvidia
gpu's) an
> contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log in case they help.
> >
> > Enjoy!
> > Rick
> >
> > On Jul 9, 2015, at 4:45 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Good point! I'll do that as soon as I get home!
> >>
> >> On Jul 9, 2015, at 1:15 PM, Peter Saisanas wrote:
> >>
> >>> What about trying the other dvi connector?
> >>
> >>
> >
>
t step is to reinstall the whole system with plain-vanilla Jessie then
> install your kernel. If there’s something in Sid that’s causing this, now
> would be a good time to know about it…
>
> I’ve ordered an inexpensive ATI based video card. If all else fails I’ll
> install that…
“lspci”, “dmesg”, and "journalctl -b”
Let me know if there’s anything else I can provide…
Hope it helps!
Rick
On Jul 8, 2015, at 5:04 PM, Peter Saisanas wrote:
Please give full dmesg log dumps next time, grepping stuff doesnt give me all
the stuff id like to know.
For starters, i don’t
-box, Jessie
> then add your kernel, and I’ll report back on that.
>
> Re, the FCODE ROM: Where can I read-up (RTFM, but what FM?) on the
> nouveau module parameters?
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Jul 8, 2015, at 1:04 PM, Peter Saisanas wrote:
>
> > Hi Rick,
> > I sho
Hi Rick,
I should probably start a new thread for reports
Seems odd to me that systemd is attempting to load modules ppdev,
parport_pc along with snd-powermac...
Are you sure you are booting up with my actual compiled kernel and initrd?
Please confirm your /etc/yaboot.conf file has entrie
Hi Brock,
That's great news! Hopefully a few more people are willing to try this out.
I set the compiler flags to be tuned specifically for the Power 4 /
PPC970 (G5) cpu's with altivec so its unlikely to be suitable for any
other powerpc64 based machines.
Perhaps someone else with a PCIe GeFo
Hi Luigi,
The pagesize issue does not affect the radeon driver, only the nouveau
driver.
Your issue is different, let me guess, you are using the gdm3 login manager?
You should use xfce desktop and lightdm login manager. I
install lightdm.
Disable gdm3 by performing the following command.
ser
Hi Jonny
The click on the each, the kernel image and kernel headers deb package
files to download.
The Google Drive link is listed below again.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8pqd5Ots1vffmY5ZnpGUDg4UGNnVFk2M05tQUtEUUkwUmhmQWdLMWpfZGVraDIxSFltb1k
Cheers,
Peter
and nouveau not
detecting the NVidia DCB block in the openfirmware FCODE rom, where should
I report this?
Sorry, I haven't reported a bug for over 10 years. Forgive me!
Cheers,
Peter
On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 1:39 AM, Milan Kupcevic
wrote:
> On 06/30/2015 05:56 AM, Peter Sa
rd to sending a report soon!
Rick
On Jun 30, 2015, at 2:56 AM, Peter Saisanas wrote:
Rick,
You cant get nouveau working with your current kernel. Period.
It doesn't matter what kernel options or module options you pass, nouveau with
acceleration just doesn't currently work with a 64kb
Rick,
You cant get nouveau working with your current kernel. Period.
It doesn't matter what kernel options or module options you pass,
nouveau with acceleration just doesn't currently work with a 64kb
pagesize kernel.
You are falling back to the openfirmware framebuffer. I have told you to
di
015, at 11:58 PM, Peter Saisanas wrote:
Ill look into making a 4Kb pagesize kernel as a deb package. The 4.0+ version
kernels require extra mucking around (for the DCB issues)...
Is a kernel from the 3.18 series ok? Where can I upload a deb package?
If the 3.18 series will work with the packa
Hi Brock
The link is below and has been up for a few hours:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8pqd5Ots1vffmY5ZnpGUDg4UGNnVFk2M05tQUtEUUkwUmhmQWdLMWpfZGVraDIxSFltb1k
As promised, above is a Google Drive link for a 64 Bit G5 Powermac
3.18.16 kernel and headers deb packages for Debian Jessie.
T
://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCFAQ (could be added in here as well but
this page is a lot less recent and not as helpful)
Grüße
boris
Am 29.06.2015 08:06 schrieb "Peter Saisanas" <mailto:psaisa...@gmail.com>>:
Hi,
I also have a Powermac G5 Quad and tried with both the G
he “/proc/interrupts” data is not obvious to me. Can you
> help?
>
> Thanks!
> Rick
>
> PS: Do you have a ‘.deb’ for your re-compiled kernel? Or could you point
> me to a good description of what I would do to compile one of my own?
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
Hi,
I also have a Powermac G5 Quad and tried with both the Geforce 6600 and
Quadro FX4500 video cards and I have successfully gotten it up and running
using the nouveau driver along with 2D acceleration on the XOrg desktop. I
have compiled many newer kernels and created debian packages for them.
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