d like to make other developers consider PowerPC more.
But, again, you're the wrong audience since that's exactly what you do,
to the best of your abilities.
My point is the following: I've been using Linux, Gentoo Linux
specifically, since the early 2000s. I came from an Intel Penti
tition.
Gentoo, that was...)
Also, I had problems getting Java (OpenJDK) to compile on the G5.
And much more. As well as small inconveniences. Like, my Power Mac G5
"Late 2005" with CPC945 chipset (Apple called this U4) has
ECC-DDR2-RAM-DIMMs installed, which are not supported by Linux.
On 2025-09-21 at 17:40 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On Sun, 2025-09-21 at 17:11 +0200, Linux User #330250 wrote:
IMHO the biggest issue for POWER4 and PowerPC 970 (G5) is it's
Endinanness. Most modern software no longer gets tested or Big Endian,
and Power/PowerPC transisioned to L
it expects SIMD
extensions as well, but AFAIK at least for the G4/G5 AltiVec/VMX was
never as well established as was SSE on x86.
Just my 2¢.
Linux User #330250
PPC64: BIG BIG
thanks! Your work is very hard for a very few still using this
architecture, so thank you so much!
I myself have stopped running my PowerMacs due to time constraints, but
they're waiting for me, probably for my retirement. The problem is that
by then most likely no current Linux wi
Hello!
On 11th of August 2024 23:27 Lennart Sorensen wrote:
I am not sure why that is an hfs volume. Is that normal for grub on
a powermac? I am affraid I have only used other powerpc linux systems
myself. Looking it up a bit it does appear that it is normal to use
hfs for /boot/grub since
On 06/04 2023 09:30 Ben Westover wrote:
On 6/4/23 3:05 AM, Ben Westover wrote:
On 6/4/23 2:57 AM, Linux User #330250 wrote:
The thing with the first and second icon: I now remember that I had an
idea what it could mean, but didn't get around testing it: Could it be
active/inactive, i.e
w to do it or the software/format used
is still around. I also sent one to the person (gmail address) who did
the GNU logo for GRUB's CHRP icon in 2013, which is more likely to work.
Let's hope for the best.
Linux User #330250
Correction:
On 06/03 2023 10:50 Linux User #330250 wrote:
b) 64x64 icons for installed OSes.
^^
52x52 of course is what I meant.
I also remember testing bigger icons and they would extend beyond the
buttons (with the button over the icon). The icon will always start at
the lower right
s make sense when we know that Sun originally made Open Firmware.
Anyway, for me /close/ is better than /not at all/, so I'm thankful!
Linux User #330250
om/articles/open-firmware-basics/
Generally, one might call it the Open Firmware boot selection utility on
Apple systems...
Linux User #330250
omplete
riddle to me. I searched the internet until finally I gave up...
So, again, thank you! I'm very happy you found the key to the
hexadecimal colors!
Any of you have a GitLab account? I think we should collect the OS
BADGES of various Linux distribution icons, not only Debian. Especia
On 06/02 2023 22:38 Ben Westover wrote:
Hello,
On 6/2/23 1:56 AM, Linux User #330250 wrote:
One thing that concerns me a bit is putting Linux's CHRP boot script
into /System/Library/CoreServices/BootX, which is specific to Mac OS X.
Why is this necessary?
It's not necessary, it&#
ch OS version has its own partition (including
"Classic"), and its own blessed files/folders. Mac OS X uses
/System/Library/CoreServices/BootX while Mac OS (up to 9.2.2) uses
"System Folder".
To me it makes sense to not copy what other OSes do. So, for Linux I use
more than on
B, via
the yaboot CHRP script. But then, GRUB would be only managing Linux.
That makes a lot more sense now. The "first stage" of yaboot where you
select Linux, OS X, or CD Boot is actually a script run by Open
Firmware, > and that's how it can so easily chainload, since it
On 05/30 2023 17:13 Stan Johnson wrote:
On 5/30/23 7:16 AM, Ben Westover wrote:
The GRUB Manual [1] says that the PPC port of GRUB only supports booting Linux
at the moment. AFAIK booting macOS with GRUB on x86 machines works by just
chainloading macOS' UEFI bootloader. I assume this is
, find which file that is. As an example, this might be grub.bin.
So, now simply create a text file of any filename (it really doesn't
matter!) with the following content:
MacRISC MacRISC3 MacRISC4
Debian GNU/Linux
" screen" output
load-base release-load-area
boot &device;,
he hard work to keep
Debian powerpc alive!
I also don't turn my PowerMacs on that often these days. Non-the-less,
and even more so when I do, Adrian, your work is very much appreciated.
Linux User #330250
t
(like selecting the number of APM partition to format on a block device).
We could make a wrapper script mkfs.hfs that utilizes hformat and
normalizes its usage though...
Linux User #330250
bootdevice setting would be necessary, I very much
prefer an out-of-the-box OS Picker compatible way. But since :tbxi is a
no-go with FAT, I honestly doubt that there is...
Linux User #330250
sion bumps are even rarer...
What we need is a free implementation of the HFS(+) utilities which is what
I am trying to achieve now. This is the only proper solution as it integrates
with the design of debian-installer.
Why are the respective packages maked "GPL-2" on Gentoo Linux then?
bably true for Apple_Bootstrap. The key here is
the bootinfo file.
It's not safe for a Linux distribution to mount the Apple_Bootstrap
partition except when it actually needs to write to it. Keeping it
mounted as /boot, or /boot/grub, leaves it vulnerable to corruption if
the system crashes (j
On 05/27 2023 20:05 Stan Johnson wrote:
On 5/27/23 10:34 AM, Linux User #330250 wrote:
Any thoughts?
...
It's not safe for a Linux distribution to mount the Apple_Bootstrap
partition except when it actually needs to write to it. Keeping it
mounted as /boot, or /boot/grub, leaves it vulne
age of pre-configured image HFS+GRUB
3. create /boot of supported fs, with UUID used in image from step 2
4. Linux only ever needs to manage grub.cfg on /boot
This would transfer the need to non-free HFS utilities to be used by the
package maintainer only, who has to create the NewWorld Bootblock
tionally *REORDER* IP protocol Packets
"because bloody Intel bloody LE"!
Thanks.
I get that. I love diversity and I loved the possibility to choose and
be different.
But if I want to continue to use Gentoo Linux on my systems, and I run
into compile errors all the time (due to rolli
bers. How? Well,
like the Chromebooks! Make cheap but relatively performant hardware in
big numbers and sell them to Linuxers.
There need to be two things present:
1) Fully open source firmware and full Linux support.
2) Cheap(er than stuff like the old ThinkPads with libreboot or stuff
like the Raptor II)
y are
expensive...
But, for the purpose of "Linux on the deskop" the former (large numbers
as in sold units) would be preferred, because it means more developers
in the (free) community, thus more software ported and hopefully
everything runs (like we see on the RaspPi).
there are additional
summarised the entire problem with the Power community
which was what inspired IBM to buy Redhat, in their very special way
they thought would solve the problem, bless 'em.
IMHO the Linux and/or open source community is missing out on providing
a competitive truly open system for its users and fans
On 03/22/23 Paul Wise wrote:
I was under the impression that POWER CPUs do *both* BE and LE at the
same time, with each process able to start in either BE or LE mode.
Perhaps thats a feature of IBM POWER CPUs and not NXP ones though?
I only know that POWER started to be LE since the POWER8. P
get
Gentoo Linux running on some years back. Compared to my x86 computers it
is a constant struggle! I don't think I've ever had so many regressions
between kernel and software updates than with this big endian machine.
I had them with Firefox, which didn't build. The problem got f
e, but they are
quite expensive as well.
For me, as a private Linux user (not programmer, not developer, not
using those systems commercially in any way), it would "merely" be an
ideological decision. For now I'm on PC systems (desktops, laptops) with
Windows preinstalled, and I get
s the correct version for the hardware,
converted the dmg to iso. If I boot with 'c' the screen goes all grey
(which seems normal) then the machine hangs. I can mount the ISO
from Linux using "-t hfsplus" and the contents seem correct.
My experience with .dmg's as images for b
y 2¢.
In the meantime, yes, better here in on the mailing list than nowhere at
all...
Linux User #330250
(An inactive Power Mac owner, due to missing spare time...)
discard, which came in kernel 5.6), and to
get not only additional features but also valuable fixes, enhancements
and speed-ups (e.g.
https://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.10.8-Released) I
kind of needed to upgrade...
The second thought that comes to my mind (which is long past a
Mathieu Malaterre wrote on 07th of October 2021, 11:05 CEST:
Hi all,
One of the kernel maintainers is wondering if the nouveau driver is
completely broken with 64K pages ?
So my question is simply: is anyone out there using a ppc64 system
with nouveau on a default linux-image-powerpc64 debian
Wouldn't it be easier to use an earlier version of diskdev_cmds, patch
it to default to hfs instead of hfs+, compile it, and then rename it to
mkfs.hfs as a separate package?
https://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/diskdev_cmds/
On Gentoo Linux, version 332.14 is still fully supporting HFS
ymore which
is used in hfsutils to bless a file system folder.
I've got a few macppc machines (Blue G3 and so) running Linux.
And, at installation time, there was always this "blessing" step if I
remember correctly. It seems to be required in order that the firmware
boots the syst
ork with
> this, but this mail is not about that. ;))
>
> Thank you
> Johannes
>
If the card doesn't have a Firmware with FCode for the Open Firmware of
the Power Mac, it's won't be possible to see anything prior to the Linux
boot, where Linux initializes the card using t
On 25th of October 2020 Carlos Rodrigues wrote:
Newer servers, such as Power8 and Power9 support BE operating systems,
including Debian ... the problem is that Debian PPC64 is compiled to be
compatible with older servers (power4 standard), it is possible to
generate a release of Debian PPC64 BE,
nt pagesize are
good for. I would like to have a working operating system, and if the
Nvidia driver nouveau doesn't work I don't have such a working operating
system.
Frankly, I don't care about the pagesize. I only had problems with
switching between 4K and 64K and I would be g
Hello!
On 5 June 2020, 08:37, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> I would like to switch the ppc64 kernel back to 4k pages. The majority
> of our users are people on G5 Macs anyway, so I don't see a point
> in using 64k pages.
If someone was using btrfs, it might not work, at least I have hit thi
27;m a private user though, and those computers are my hobby. I haven't
found the time to update my Debian installation yet, but I intend to.
Whenever I find the time, that is. So I won't be in the statistics as
well. But I won't be in it anyways, since I deliberately don't act
Follow-up:
http://git.ozlabs.org/?p=yaboot.git;a=tree;f=doc/examples;hb=HEAD
I suggest to take simpleboot.chrp and change it to load the GRUB binary
instead of yaboot. And replace the icon...
Cheers,
Linux User #330250
ows. Finished.
I would also like to test this as soon as I have the time, but there
might not be any spare time the following weeks...
Thanks,
Linux User #330250
FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF
FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF
he USB stick contains a dd'ed debian ISO image and it is
> possible to browse its files on a PowerMac G5 (PowerMac11,2).
That is the same way I did it, I used dd on my Linux machine and
successfully booted the netinst image on my iBook G3 from 1999.
> I think I am using the correc
r of Power Macs before, but how is it
determined when to display which of the mentioned tags/icons?
Cheers,
Linux User #330250
[1] http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/apple/powerpc/CHRP/chrp1_7a.pdf
[2]
https://opensource.apple.com/source/BootX/BootX-81/bootx.tproj/bootinfo.hdr.auto.html
[3]
http
optical drive (or any other supported boot device by the Open
Firmware OS Picker, i.e. holding the option key at the chime to see the
directly supported boot options), you'd get to see a nice Debian
GNU/Linux logo for the installer. This is something that seems not less
important to me as well... ;-)
Cheers,
Linux User #330250
USB pen drive already plugged in when the Mac starts.
And thanks for your devalias!
Cheers,
Linux User #330250
The "\\:tbxi" is not a real file, instead OF will look for the
one file that is blessed on this partition, that is the one file that
has specific attributes to it. For Mac OS X this will be bootx, for
Linux normally yaboot or grub2. To my knowledge this only works on a
partition with HFS.
quot;dir
ultra1:10,\" – intrestingly "dir hd:\" didn't work, neither did "dir
hd:10,\").
Cheers,
Linux User #330250
Am 26.08.18 um 14:07 schrieb Frank Scheiner:
> On 08/26/2018 01:35 PM, Linux User #330250 wrote:
>> Am 26.08.18 um 12:48 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
>>> One of the most pressing problems on Debian powerpc/ppc64 is
>>> the deprecation of Yaboot. Yaboot is co
of that time on them, together
with the software of that time, but they are of use, and they keep me
from buying yet another cheap computer that would be able to do the same
task...
Until recently, Linux has been the only operating system that kept those
machines current, because if it can run o
t Open Firmware would display when you hold the Option key
for the boot selection screen. But that is completely optional.
Linux User #330250
rived from POWER4 and POWER5, Big Endian (BE):
https://wiki.debian.org/PPC64
NOT Little Endian (LE), as for Power8 and later:
https://wiki.debian.org/ppc64el
Cheers,
Linux User #330250
On 2017-05-27 23:33 Linux User #330250 wrote:
On my Power Mac G5, Motorola 7450 Dual 800 MHz, ...
^^
Sorry, I meant to write Power Mac G4...
Otherwise it makes no sense.
On 2017-05-27 20:46 Christian Zigotzky wrote:
Just for info
Mac-on-Linux/KVM PR works without any problems on my P.A. Semi PA6T PPC64 SMP
CPU.
Yes, the P.A. Semi PA6T is a 64-bit processor (PPC64), so that's why.
On my Power Mac G5, Motorola 7450 Dual 800 MHz, I only get the
/lib/mo
ores...
I've had the same issue on my G4 Dual-800 MHz. The cost to get KVM on a
multi-processor Mac may not be worth it.
Though I have to wander, why is KVM not working with SMP? IMHO this
should be fixed...
Cheers,
Linux User #330250
Hello Carlos!
Have you also tried a different USB pen drive (USB stick) yet? Some USB
devices use non-standard modes which may not be supported by Open Firmware.
Good luck,
Linux User #330250
On 2017-05-08 02:02, Joel Rees wrote:
On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 4:27 AM, Linux User #330250
wrote:
The SVN version compiled with the KVM option. Testing it is another story,
but it compiled alright.
If that's successful, I think I want to know about it.
I thought I'd have time this
The SVN version compiled with the KVM option. Testing it is another
story, but it compiled alright. Maybe it was the missing /usr/src/linux
symlink to the current kernel, so I set KERNEL_SOURCE to the recently
compiled 4.11 vanilla kernel instead.
Summary:
root@G4QS:/usr/local/src## apt
What I did:
1) Download MOL from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mac-on-linux/files/mac-on-linux/mol-0.9.72.1/mol-0.9.72.1.tar.bz2/download
and unpack, I used /usr/local/src/ for unpacking.
2) Get dependencies, requirements:
a) apt install build-essential fakeroot devscripts
b
Hello!
I'm trying to compile Mac-on-Linux (MOL) on a current Debian unstable
powerpc system. It hangs and I don't know what's wrong, so HELP is
highly appreciated.
Before you ask: yes, I know that MOL is likely to fail on a recent Linux
system. Anyway, the error doesn'
make defconfig?
Anything else I should look out for?
Cheers,
Linux User #330250
Am 2017-05-02 um 12:29 schrieb Mathieu Malaterre:
Hi,
This is not clear to me. Is this the stable kernel ? Did you send this
information to: ?
On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Linux User #330250
wrote:
BTW, I get th
Am 2017-04-14 um 11:33 schrieb Linux User #330250:
To my understanding only NewWorld Macs are supported. But then, *all*
NewWorld Macs are, and those are "old" too by now. This should include
all Macs which are called "Power Mac" (before it was "Power
Macintosh&quo
Am 2017-04-14 um 17:58 schrieb Riccardo Mottola:
How is booting with a G4 processor? Last time I tried I had issues
with the initialization of the CPU that did run at half speed!
I use and used Debian on a G4 7450 CPU and I cannot see anything unusual
concerning the CPU or bus speed. Everythin
Correction.
Selection a mirror from menu item "Choose a mirror of the Debian
archive" -- above "Install the base system" -- doesn't succeed. Never.
Even after a base system is installed it failes.
However, with the next item "Configure the package manager" again comes
the question if I want
BTW, I get this in dmesg output, on both the installer boot and when
booting the installed -smp kernel.
[4.767389] [ cut here ]
[4.774668] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at
/build/linux-dp17Ba/linux-4.9.18/arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c:208
check_features+0x38/0x7c
Am 2017-04-14 um 13:08 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
On 04/14/2017 12:00 PM, Linux User #330250 wrote:
Am 2017-04-14 um 10:25 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
Yes, the choose-mirror package currently doesn't support unstable [1]. You can
easily enter a normal
mirror URL
Am 2017-04-14 um 10:25 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
Yes, the choose-mirror package currently doesn't support unstable [1]. You can
easily enter a normal
mirror URL like "ftp.debian.org" and "debian/" as a sub-directory and it should
work.
Should I install again and try that or can we ju
Am 2017-04-14 um 10:16 schrieb Mathieu Malaterre:
On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Linux User #330250
wrote:
One suggestion for further improvement: on an older installation I had used
before powerpc was dropped (Debian 7.x, then testing) I was able to get
grub2 running. It would be an idea
Am 2017-04-14 um 11:20 schrieb Mathieu Malaterre:
Leaving it to the user is by far the best option !
I think so too. Having the choice between yaboot and GRUB2 makes the
most sense.
I think I am getting confused now, because on one page, we have
Performa 4400, 54xx, 5500 listed as powermac-
OpenFirmware only while the kernel uses its own code
to access block devices,
so I think it shouldn't matter. I have used large disks on my Amiga with Linux
without any problems
as well even though AmigaOS natively supports up to 2 GiB only if I remember
correctly.
Yes, I know. The limiting factor i
Am 2017-04-13 um 09:09 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
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Hash: SHA256
On 04/12/2017 09:34 PM, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
You can find the .iso images within each job's workspace e.g.:
http://jenkins.kfreebsd.eu/jenkins/view/cd/job/debian-cd_sid_hurd-i386/ws/b
ordable old hardware...
Cheers,
Linux User #330250
Am 2016-06-03 um 20:05 schrieb Herminio Hernandez Jr. :
I have a PowerMac G5 and I tried to load the 64el iso and it will not boot. Has
anyone had similar issues?
Sent from my iPhone
For PowerMac G5 use the powerpc image, not 64el. The G5 is POWER4 based,
and ppc64el is for POWER8 systems. Se
situation.
Should I do it all over again on an ext4 file system?!?!?
I would rather like the nouveau driver to be fixed to work on a 64k
pagesize system (or the btrfs driver to work on both 64k and 4k equally).
I hat it when things like this happen…
Andreas aka Linux User #330250
e at the firmware
boot selection screen).
Sometimes if a CD/DVD does not boot, it is either the wrong version
(i.e. "ppc64le" instead of "powerpc") or the CD/DVD is faulty. Did you
check if the CD/DVD is readable from within Mac OS X?
Good luck,
Andreas aka Linux User #330250
Hi again.
Once my Gentoo is up and running, I will have two almost independent
Linux boot options.
Also, I choose btrfs for my root file systems for the first time. I will
be playing with making snapshots shortly.
Obviously this all takes time. And the end of Christmas vacation time is
coming
Hello Peter!
Thanks for your answer.
I am currently installing Gentoo Linux in a chroot from the Debian
installation. X.org is actually running, and I switched to a VT which
surprisingly works stable in every way. To check it, I just stopped
X.org by running "systemctl stop kdm" in
ry
it on my other Power Mac G5, a PowerMac7,2 with an ATI Radeon 9600
graphics card. Let's see if this works better.
Cheers,
Andreas aka Linux User #330250
Hello Kelly!
I've moved my personal desktop system from i386 (Pentium III) to ppc
(Power Mac G4) to ppc64 (Power Mac G5) to amd64 (AMD Phenom 2). I used
Gentoo linux though.
All user data, configuration files, databases, documents etc. works like
a charm on another architecture. I transferr
. Midnight Commander
works as expected. BUT...
BUT:
When quitting mc, the console (virtual terminal) is stalled.
Anyone alse see this problem?
What is the solution?
Thanks,
Andreas aka Linux User #330250
Hello Peter!
You are right. I just checked. The PowerMac11,2 uses a SMU. This can
also be verified using an Open Firmware console, the command "lsdev"
lists all devices in the device tree by name. One of the names is "smu"
and not "pmu".
(Should you wonder: I actually have two G5s. One PowerMac7,
or POWER systems only.
My HDD just died, so this project came to an abrupt halt.
I used Gentoo Linux on my G5 a view years ago with a true ppc64
installation. I think this is not possible on Debian, and there really
are very rare conditions when 64-bit is actually better than 32-bit on a
G5 system
-Express models (PowerMac11,2).
I did not find a specific site that confirms that, but you can check on
everymac.com for the specs of the G5s. The PowerPac9,1 internally is an
iMac G5 and they use SMUs.
Cheers,
Andreas aka Linux User #330250
Am 2015-12-31 um 01:37 schrieb Peter Saisanas:
> Hi Ai
pure ppc64 or pure ppc on Gentoo was the painless way of
doing things, naturally except for the kernel.)
I still have my Power Macs.
Going multilib would be great on powerpc!
As would be out-of-the-box x86 emulation for binary-only programs.
(qemu-user)
Cheers,
Andreas aka Linux User #330250
Original message from Alberto Mi, 2015-10-18 11:27:
> Thanks a lot again, yes I haver sereval Macs and PCs, so I could download
> the firmware without a problem, and also I have a Boot CD for installing
> Debian that works.
>
>
> powermi [at] gmail [dot] com
Okay, so this is step by step what yo
Original message from Alberto Mi, 2015-10-18 09:20:
> Thanks a lot, I am a bit newbe with Linux, could I do all the process with
> the same machine? How could I download the driver with the powermac that
> doesnt boot? I know Its too much, but could give me a step by step process?
&
Original message from Alberto Mi, 2015-10-18 08:41:
> Hello, have reintalled Debian on my powermac G4 for update to Jessie and
> after the boot command I just get a complete blank screen that doesn't me
> allow to do nothing.
> I have a 6200 AGP nvidia working great before with L
I am getting
>> closer, though. It is a problem with the Nouveau driver.
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. <
>> herminio.hernande...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Check this post out
>>> http://powerpcliberation.blogspot.ca/201
for me on my pmac g5 quad with quadro fx4500 gpu.
>
> As mentioned, not a fix, but a workaround...
>
> Regards,
> Peter
>
>
Thanks, Peter!
This actually worked... Until this issue is fixed, I will use the PC
BIOS firmware for my flashed GeForce 6200.
Again thanks for t
Hello debian-powerpc list!
I come right to the point.
My computer is a Power Mac G4 Quicksilver (original, 2001) with the
flashed PC graphics card Nvidia 6200 AGP card. It is correctly supported
in Mac OS X 10.4/10.5 and it was working in Linux with the Debian
kernels 3.16.
> lspci -nn | g
I'm trying to get X-Windows to work but keep running into:
TDFX(0): No valid PIO address in PCI config space
What does this Error mean? Any idea what I should try?
Thanks for your help
(PowerMac 9500/200, 176MB, Voodoo 3 3000 with 16 MB)
XFree86.0.log:
[...]
(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(I
It was indeed X related and the solution so simple: Run xf86config and select
the proper driver for the Voodoo3 Card. You tend to forget those helpful little
tools. (Must be some years ago I needed xf86config).
Thanks for the hint.
Michael
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I just installed Debian 3.1 and ran into the following problem:
When starting Gnome, the output is squeezed to half the screenwidth und colors
are false (Looks like the green color component is missing)
Am using a patched Voodoo3 Video Card.
Any suggestions
Anyone who has experienced this probl
I am trying to install Debian to an Old World Mac (PowerMac 9500). I have tried
Debian 2.2 (Potato) using BootX but failed since I could not find a Boot
Ramdisk. The Installation of Debian 3.1 has been successful so far, but when I
reboot, the System stops at a black screen with a small image of
Hello !
I have a G3 Beige with an Apple Design Keyboard. My version of XFree is
4.3.0, so I don't use Xmodmap, as recommended in The XKB Configuration guide
of XFree86 4.3.0.
I could modify my XF86Config-4 file as following, to obtain the right mapping
of my keyboard :
Section "InputDevice"
Hello !
My G3/266 has a Sarge on it, and I can't use my radeon with :
- I compiled a 2.6.6 kernel, with fb and dri support for radeon (monolithic,
not in modules). Result : I have two black strips up and down of my screen,
the console has a big font, and the X screen is on the right of the physic
er for ADB devices
> [ ] Support for ADB raw keycodes
> [*] Support for mouse button 2+3 emulation
THANKS a billion! Everything works now... somewhere I got confused.
I've also updated my kernel compilation page for anyone who wishes to use it.
http://www.dialectique.org/linux-dev/debian-kernel-compilation.html
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> Rule number one when upgrading the kernel: _Always_ keep an option to
> boot a known working kernel. kernel-package makes this very easy with
> the vmlinux and vmlinux.old symlinks.
Thanks for the advice... I should have known better!
Anyway I was able to boot! Thanks again.
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