Re: Apple PowerPC G5 7,2 No GUI NVIDIA FX 5200

2022-05-23 Thread tonyj
On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 01:39:34PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 1:31 PM wrote: > > > > ... > > There was an official Apple Radeon X1900 G5 edition which was PCIe. > > I've also read that people have used a Windows PC to flash Mac > > firmware onto a PC X1950 PCIe card an

Re: Apple PowerPC G5 7,2 No GUI NVIDIA FX 5200

2022-05-23 Thread tonyj
On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 10:41:07AM -0700, Christian Calderon wrote: > I wonder if new nvidia cards will work now that nvidia has released an open > source driver… My understanding is that what has been made available right now is only for newer hardware. In the long term it may be of benefit for

Re: Apple PowerPC G5 7,2 No GUI NVIDIA FX 5200

2022-05-23 Thread tonyj
On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 04:05:13PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > This may help: https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers > > When I had problems with the NVIDIA card, I took the NVIDIA card out, > and installed a Radeon card instead. As mentioned, the proprietory NVIDIA drivers are x86 onl

Re: Off-Topic: G5 Open Firmware instability

2022-05-13 Thread tonyj
On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 11:21:47AM -0700, Ken Cunningham wrote: > No doubt you know ... will need to re-run thermal calibration > > To do that you will need to get that machine to boot from that ASD > CD, one way or another. Yes, I do. I'll take the motherboard out this weekend. I'll check

Re: Off-Topic: G5 Open Firmware instability

2022-05-13 Thread tonyj
On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 07:51:27PM +0200, Linux User #330250 wrote: > > I downloaded ASD 2.6.3 which is 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 Linu

Re: Off-Topic: G5 Open Firmware instability

2022-05-13 Thread tonyj
On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 01:43:24PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > Clearly there is. My concern however is that I have two issues and > > the OF one is distinct from the cooling one. The machine can boot into > > the existing Linux (from SATA) and stay up indefinitely (if load av < > > 1.5) b

Re: Off-Topic: G5 Open Firmware instability

2022-05-13 Thread tonyj
On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 03:58:08PM +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote: > Hi Tony, Hi. > Have you already looked below the cover of the cooling system? Is > there any visible leakage (remove power before looking into that)? Yes and no. > not, it could be that the water cooler is missing some liquid a

Off-Topic: G5 Open Firmware instability

2022-05-12 Thread tonyj
This is a bit off-topic but hoping someone may have some advice. I have a PowerMac Quad Core G5 2.5ghz (late 2005 - updated Panasonic cooler, not the problematic Delphi). I've had it since 2007 and in that time it's always run Linux. I don't have the original MacOS disks. Right now it's runn