iBook G4 can't start NetworkManager

Hello all, I just installed Debian on my iBook G4 using the latest iso from February 25th.  The Ethernet worked during the installer, but afterwards I can't establish an internet connection.  It appears NetworkManager refuses to start (is this service even necessary to establish a ne

Re: Trouble installing on iBook G4

: PowerBook6,7 machine : PowerBook6,7 motherboard : PowerBook6,7 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh detected as : 287 (iBook G4) pmac flags : 001a L2 cache: 512K unified pmac-generation : NewWorld Memory : 1536 MB 1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group d

Re: Trouble installing on iBook G4

It is very much the problem i will be trying to fix when https://github.com/threader/AltanOS/tree/main/src/ppc/linux_ppc32_deb is in order, it'll take some time to work out everything and clean up all and build from a buildroot or debian build. I'm going to visit the debian-installer soon anyway, i

Re: Trouble installing on iBook G4

What about installing from a qemu or debbootstrap from a usb/chroot and do some OF trickery? On Sun, 22 Sept 2024, 06:28 Ken Cunningham, wrote: > So the key points are: > > 1. you have to use the special ISO, and no other ISO than the latest > special ISO should be used. Right now, I think you'r

Re: Trouble installing on iBook G4

So the key points are: 1. you have to use the special ISO, and no other ISO than the latest special ISO should be used. Right now, I think you're still waiting to hear which ISO that is. 2. Do NOT believe any other website you might find or YouTube channel you might find that claims to tell you

Re: Trouble installing on iBook G4

Hello Adrian, Yes, I tried booting into the older kernel from GRUB.  In fact, attempting to load the latest kernel from the repositories causes the system to crash back to Open Firmware, as discussed previously. However, you mentioned that all further discussion should be based on a known

Re: Trouble installing on iBook G4

Keeping an eye on everything 'boot' if anyone has any suggestions or thought's and notes of my notes, please let me know, im apparently trying to solve all the problems i can imagine; https://github.com/threader/AltanOS https://github.com/threader/xnu_gcc_libc_etc_darwin Im especially interested in

Re: Trouble installing on iBook G4

Hi, On Thu, 2024-09-19 at 22:49 -0500, Cedar Maxwell wrote: > Great, which one is the proper image? Sorry, I was too busy and forgot looking for the recommended image. > I went ahead and tried this one: > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/current/ >   > The Ethernet worked during the ins

Re: Trouble installing on iBook G4

Hello Adrian, Great, which one is the proper image? I went ahead and tried this one: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/current/ The Ethernet worked during the installation, but afterwards Debian doesn't detect it at all. On 9/12/24 02:23, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi Cedar

Re: Trouble installing on iBook G4

Hi Cedar, On Wed, 2024-09-11 at 16:51 -0500, Cedar Maxwell wrote: > Thank you for your reply.  Here is the link to the image I used: > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/12.0/powerpc That one doesn't work. Let me pick the proper image for you first as further discussions should be based on

Re: Trouble installing on iBook G4

rformance it looks like I'm stuck in software rendering.  All the answers online I found said that graphics drivers haven't been available in several years.  Is this still the case? For reference, my iBook G4's identifier is PowerBook 6,7.  12" model, 1.33GHz, 1.5GB RAM.

Re: Trouble installing on iBook G4

Hello Cedar, On Thu, 2024-09-05 at 14:16 -0500, Cedar Maxwell wrote: > I just installed the latest stable Debian iso on my iBook G4, but the > grub bootloader install failed during the installation.  When I boot, > I get the grub prompt. Please provide the URL of the installation image

Re: Trouble installing on iBook G4

luck, K On 2024-09-05, at 12:16 PM, Cedar Maxwell wrote: > Hello PowerPC Debian users, > > > I just installed the latest stable Debian iso on my iBook G4, but the grub > bootloader install failed during the installation. When I boot, I get the > grub prompt. I'

Trouble installing on iBook G4

Hello PowerPC Debian users, I just installed the latest stable Debian iso on my iBook G4, but the grub bootloader install failed during the installation.  When I boot, I get the grub prompt.  I've been trying to follow the instructions at posts like this one: https://superuse

Re: No video signal on iBook G4 with latest kernel

. Ok... fine..  as far as I remember in my experience this is an old bug... months. I don't ever recall it working, but previously I had a slightly different iBook which failed in the GPU and this is not the exact model, so subtle bugs differ (and taint my memory as far as working goes).

Re: No video signal on iBook G4 with latest kernel

Hello, On Wed, 2024-01-24 at 16:15 +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > I have reported the issue in the Freedesktop bug tracker for the radeon > > driver [1]. > > video signal of the internal LCD or external video? When does this happen > I just updated my iBook G4 1

glx on AGP 9200 radeon on iBook G4 failure

Hi, if I try to run glxgears on my iBook G4, it dies with this error: radeon: Invalid PCI ID. glx: failed to create dri2 screen failed to load driver: radeonsi LLVM ERROR: Relocation type not implemented yet! lspci says: :00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD

Re: No video signal on iBook G4 with latest kernel

Hi Adrian, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: just as a heads-up: I'm not getting a video signal with my iBook G4 with the latest kernel. dmesg shows error messages that seem to be related to the problem: [ 14.222735] radeon :00:10.0: [drm] bpp/depth value of 16/16 not supp

No video signal on iBook G4 with latest kernel

Hello, just as a heads-up: I'm not getting a video signal with my iBook G4 with the latest kernel. dmesg shows error messages that seem to be related to the problem: [ 14.222735] radeon :00:10.0: [drm] bpp/depth value of 16/16 not supported [ 14.222774] radeon :00:10.0: [drm

ibook g4 rescue usb

I'm sure I'm going to need this information again in a few years, so this seems like the best place to preserve it for the future. To boot into the open firmware: option + command + O + F To boot grub from the Debian installer USB stick with grub: boot usb0/disk@1:,\boot\grub\powerpc.elf caveats

Re: Problems with 32 bit PPC upgrading/autoremoving on '04 iBook G4

on usefulness, but had that problem with the OSX 10.4 install that was on there and the possibly Lubuntu 16.04???  browsers were almost dysfunctional . . . I think it has 946 MB RAM???  Don't think it has enough kick to run your SidsterPPC system?? A computer is not just for browsing... an

Problems with 32 bit PPC upgrading/autoremoving on '04 iBook G4

Adrian: Just providing feedback on the Debian Sid/PPC install that I ran a couple months back and then today did an apt dist-upgrade that brought in 489 packages. Because the machine has a 933 MHz cpu it doesn't do anything too fast, but it did get through the installation of 432MB of data in abo

Re: Question on installing Debian ppc on iBook with small HD

into drives that are sliced and diced to contain a number of systems . . . . I used to run installs "install alongside OSX" back in the day . . . I can't recall if the Debian installer offered me that option recently when I ran into the process a fair ways before aborting out of it . .

Re: Question on installing Debian ppc on iBook with small HD

Hi Fritz! Apologies for the late reply! On Mon, 2023-06-26 at 08:57 -0700, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > So, I got into the Net installer on an '04 iBook with 40GB HD, I have approx > 11 GB > set for what is right now Lubuntu 16.04, which is booting from Yaboot in the > HFS > part

Question on installing Debian ppc on iBook with small HD

h from Yaboot > to GRUB as the > default bootloader. > > > If running "custom" with the "/" "/home" and "swap" partitions pointed > to, would that not work?? > > It would still work. All you need is an HFS partition mounted to >

GL failure in iBook G4

Hello, while on my PowerBook OpenGL works (both in a browser as well in minimal test case glxgears) on my iBook G4 not: $ glxgears radeon: Invalid PCI ID. libGL error: glx: failed to create dri2 screen libGL error: failed to load driver: radeonsi LLVM ERROR: Relocation type not implemented

Re: Installation on an iBook G4

Hello Johannes! On 5/1/22 23:15, Johannes Brakensiek wrote: > First packages firmware-b43-installer[3] and and bw43-fwcutter[4] were > missing, which I then got from the linked snapshot. Would it be > possible to place these packages in the unreleased repo to make them > available easily? Hmm, I

Installation on an iBook G4

Hello everyone, I installed the CD image from snapshot 2022-03-28 [1], which I burned using my PowerMac G5 [2]. Installation just went very fine. Thanks a lot to Adrian for making this happen! After installation I encountered some issues which could easily be solved by applying some quick and di

Re: X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

Hi! Riccardo Mottola wrote: > an update on this - Last kernel 5.15 works fine on my PowerBook again! > Will test now on my iBooks and also on the iMac where I never had issues > however. Good news. X11 is working again: * clamshell iBook G3 * white iBook G4 * iMac G5 iSight (neve

Re: X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

Hello, an update on this - Last kernel 5.15 works fine on my PowerBook again! Will test now on my iBooks and also on the iMac where I never had issues however. Riccardo -- Sent with GNUMail running on MacOS 10.7

Re: X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

Hi Stan! > On Nov 6, 2021, at 3:19 PM, Stan Johnson wrote: > Kernel developers have found the bug in the "bad commit" that was > identified above. Details can be found in the > linuxppc-...@lists.ozlabs.org mailing list. > > Since I'm not a kernel developer, I have no idea when the bug correctio

Re: X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

On 10/14/21 9:21 PM, Stan Johnson wrote: > ... > Debian's 5.10.0-8 config file works (as expected) with Debian's 5.10.0-8 > kernel source. > ... > X works with 5.14 using a tuned config file derived from 5.13 testing. > ... Update: The issue originally reported by Riccardo Mottola was that X wasn

Re: X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

work, I do actually start checking the messages. On the old kernel, here on m iBook, I get: [6.016733] pci 0001:10:19.0: Can't enable PCI device, BIOS handoff failed. but then console and X11 work with kernel 5.10.0-6-powerpc #1 Debian 5.10.28-1 (2021-04-09) ppc GNU/Linux Ricca

Re: X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

ght still be something specific to the Debian configuration and/or building? About the super-big kernel, I remember this, but there was a fix that Adrian suggested which I don't remember. That would be the cross-check. Thanks, Riccardo -- Produly sent with GNUMail on Debian/PPC running on an iBook G3.

Re: X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

On 10/9/21 11:41 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello Stan! > > On 10/9/21 19:00, Stan Johnson wrote: >> thanks, stripping vmlinux was the step I was missing. > > ... > >> Starting with the kernel source linux-source-5.14.tar.xz installed from >> "apt-get install linux-source", >> >> Tes

Re: X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

Hello Stan! On 10/9/21 19:00, Stan Johnson wrote: > thanks, stripping vmlinux was the step I was missing. FWIW, there is a PowerMac image in arch/powerpc/boot called "zImage.pmac", so why not use that one instead? > Starting with the kernel source linux-source-5.14.tar.xz installed from > "apt-g

Re: X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

On 10/8/21 11:10 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Stan! > > On 10/8/21 18:49, Stan Johnson wrote: >> ... >> $ ls -l vmlinux >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 johnson johnson 208626696 Oct 8 09:03 vmlinux > ... > That is the unstripped, uncompressed image. You can either strip this image: > > glaubitz@nod

Re: X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

Hi Stan! On 10/8/21 18:49, Stan Johnson wrote: > Compiling 5.14.9 using Debian's 5.14.0-2 config file: > > $ rm -r linux-source-5.14 > $ xzcat ../linux-source-5.14.tar.xz | tar xf - > $ cd linux-source-5.14 > $ cp ../config-5.14.0-2-powerpc .config > $ make ARCH=powerpc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linu

Re: X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

Hello Stan! On 10/8/21 16:32, Stan Johnson wrote: > I may be doing something wrong, but I don't see where. If I'm not doing > something wrong, then there could be a problem with the powerpc Debian > config file for 5.14.9. Do you not have a file called /boot/config-5.14.0-2-powerpc on your PowerM

Re: X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

Hi Mathieu! On 10/7/21 10:24, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> Well, we still have the Debian stock kernel not working. So we might be >> missing a kernel option that is required for X to work on the PowerMacs. > > This one ? > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=790690 No, this is a

Re: X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 10:21 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On 10/7/21 06:16, Stan Johnson wrote: > > Compiling the downloaded kernel-source using Debian's .config file > > "config.powerpc_none_powerpc.xz" resulted in a 200 MB kernel (perhaps > > because it included all possible options),

Re: X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

On 10/7/21 06:33, Stan Johnson wrote: > In this case, I'm not sure whether there was a kernel regression > affecting G4 systems that has already been fixed, or perhaps an issue > with .config file options. If the .config file that I used (see my > previous message) doesn't include new options that

Re: X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

On 10/7/21 06:16, Stan Johnson wrote: > Compiling the downloaded kernel-source using Debian's .config file > "config.powerpc_none_powerpc.xz" resulted in a 200 MB kernel (perhaps > because it included all possible options), and I couldn't get it to boot > (but I also didn't compile or install any m

Re: X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

Hello Riccardo! On 10/7/21 03:39, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Did you see the error I am getting about BIOS ROM at boot? Do you get it too? This isn't an error, it's just what you expect on a non-x86 system. Graphics cards having a built-in BIOS is mostly a PC thing and the BIOS code on these card

Re: X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

Hi Alex! On 10/7/21 04:40, Alex Perez wrote: > FYI, There are nine powerpc-specific changes in 5.13. It may make > sense to start rolling back those commits first: > https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.13#POWERPC I wouldn't recommend that approach. Bisecting the kernel is actually the common method

Re: X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

x27;ll attempt a bisect, starting with mainline v5.14 and going backwards >> if necessary (it looks like 5.12.9 worked; I'm not sure about v5.13). If >> there's a kernel regression, I'll confirm the regression exists on both >> the G4 Cube and the PB G4. I don't hav

Re: X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

x27;s a kernel regression, I'll confirm the regression exists on both the G4 Cube and the PB G4. I don't have an iBook to test. -Stan

Re: X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

(it looks like 5.12.9 worked; I'm not sure about v5.13). If there's a kernel regression, I'll confirm the regression exists on both the G4 Cube and the PB G4. I don't have an iBook to test. You have it on your Cube, two PowerBooks, mine and yours, and my iBook. So I guess

Re: X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

e details.) We should start a separate discussion for that. > I'll attempt a bisect, starting with mainline v5.14 and going backwards > if necessary (it looks like 5.12.9 worked; I'm not sure about v5.13). If > there's a kernel regression, I'll confirm the regression e

Re: X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

On 10/6/21 01:40, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Again, booting an old kernel leads to working X. Very much sounds like a kernel regression that you should bisect. That isn't too difficult when cross-building with a fast x86_64 machine. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Dev

Re: X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

Hi Riccardo! On 10/6/21 01:19, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > I carefully upgraded kernel and other selected packages on my trusty iBook > and see how it goes. The iMac G5 runs smooth (except for libffi issues) with > current kernel and Debian the PowerBook adds to this latest kernel issues,

Re: X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

Hi, Darn! X doesn't work on my PowerBook G4 too! I was so happy that the 5.14-2 kernel did boot successfully with a console, but it does not start X, black screen, exactly as on the iBook. Contrary to the iBook, the PowerBook has been updated to the very latest possible packages, incl

X stopped working with 5.14 on iBook

Hi, I carefully upgraded kernel and other selected packages on my trusty iBook and see how it goes. The iMac G5 runs smooth (except for libffi issues) with current kernel and Debian the PowerBook adds to this latest kernel issues, but for the rest it has "only" the libffi issue.

Re: Give away: iBook G4

Hi! On 4/8/21 8:52 AM, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sun, Apr 04, 2021 at 05:39:18PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> In case you didn't get my mail off-list. I would be interested and >> I'm in Berlin so shipping is cheap. > > I didn't get that e-mail and I actually forgot to ask you first

Re: Give away: iBook G4

Hi On Sun, Apr 04, 2021 at 05:39:18PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > In case you didn't get my mail off-list. I would be interested and > I'm in Berlin so shipping is cheap. I didn't get that e-mail and I actually forgot to ask you first. Anyway, you can have it. I won't send the bat

Re: Give away: iBook G4

On 4/4/21 5:19 PM, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 03:20:03PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: >> I found an old iBook G4, unknown variant, in my pile of older >> electronics. >> I would need to check if it actually works and that no data is left on >> it. &g

Re: Give away: iBook G4

My offer still stands to pay for shipping. Just name a price.Colton On Sun, 04 Apr 2021 11:19:11 -0400 Bastian Blank wrote On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 03:20:03PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > I found an old iBook G4, unknown variant, in my pile of ol

Re: Give away: iBook G4

On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 03:20:03PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > I found an old iBook G4, unknown variant, in my pile of older > electronics. > I would need to check if it actually works and that no data is left on > it. I checked it. This is a model A1055, 768MB of DDR RAM install

Re: Give away: iBook G4

On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 03:20:03PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > Hi folks > > I found an old iBook G4, unknown variant, in my pile of older > electronics. Could someone make use of that? > > I would need to check if it actually works and that no data is left on > i

Re: Give away: iBook G4

Hi Bastian,I’d be very interested in this machine. I’ll gladly pay shipping to Canada if you’re willing to take it to the post office.Please let me know,Colton On Fri, 02 Apr 2021 09:20:03 -0400 Bastian Blank wrote Hi folks I found an old iBook G4

Give away: iBook G4

Hi folks I found an old iBook G4, unknown variant, in my pile of older electronics. Could someone make use of that? I would need to check if it actually works and that no data is left on it. It's located near Stuttgart, Germany. Regards, Bastian -- It is necessary to have pu

Re: poor relative G4 performance iBook/PowerBook

ed to investigate this further - except smartctl, I did more > extensive checks with file copying which are interesting, also, now that > keyboard works again, I investigated better what dmesg says. > Here some results: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=output.dat bs=1M count=128 > > PB: 158

Re: poor relative G4 performance iBook/PowerBook

to investigate this further - except smartctl, I did more extensive checks with file copying which are interesting, also, now that keyboard works again, I investigated better what dmesg says. Here some results: dd if=/dev/zero of=output.dat  bs=1M  count=128 PB: 158 MB/s iBook: 117 MB/s dd if

Re: poor relative G4 performance iBook/PowerBook

Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi! > > I develop on both an iBook G4 14" (should be one of the latest model, > although the motherboard ) and a PowerBook G4 17" both running debian... > Although currently different kernels, minor differences. > "In theory" I got the

poor relative G4 performance iBook/PowerBook

Hi! I develop on both an iBook G4 14" (should be one of the latest model, although the motherboard ) and a PowerBook G4 17" both running debian... Although currently different kernels, minor differences. "In theory" I got the PB G4 because it should be faster than the iBoo

Re: iBook G4 - Wireless

On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 18:00, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On 5/20/20 6:58 PM, Rui Salvaterra wrote: > > On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 17:56, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > > wrote: > >> > >> I recommend using nmcli for network configuration on the command line, it's > >> convenient and supports ev

Re: iBook G4 - Wireless

On 5/20/20 6:58 PM, Rui Salvaterra wrote: > On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 17:56, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: >> >> I recommend using nmcli for network configuration on the command line, it's >> convenient and supports everything that network-manager supports. > > Nah… nmtui. ;) Ah, I haven't tri

Re: iBook G4 - Wireless

On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 17:56, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > I recommend using nmcli for network configuration on the command line, it's > convenient and supports everything that network-manager supports. Nah… nmtui. ;)

Re: iBook G4 - Wireless

On 5/20/20 6:17 PM, Rui Salvaterra wrote: > On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 16:05, Mick Bert wrote: >> >> But when I type the command iwlist, it give me:*| > > iwlist is for very old WEXT-based drivers, IIRC. For modern > mac80211-based drivers (like b43) using the nl80211 configuration > interface, you n

Re: iBook G4 - Wireless

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/b43 Mick Bert schreef op 2020-05-20 17:05: Il 01/02/19 16:59, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ha scritto: See: http://snapshot.debian.org/package/b43-fwcutter/1%3A019-3/ Hello I downloaded and installed b43-fwcutter

Re: iBook G4 - Wireless

Hi, Mick, On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 16:05, Mick Bert wrote: > > But when I type the command iwlist, it give me:*| iwlist is for very old WEXT-based drivers, IIRC. For modern mac80211-based drivers (like b43) using the nl80211 configuration interface, you need to use iw. Cheers, Rui

Re: iBook G4 - Wireless

Il 01/02/19 16:59, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ha scritto: See: http://snapshot.debian.org/package/b43-fwcutter/1%3A019-3/ Hello I downloaded and installed b43-fwcutter and |*firmware-b43-installer_019-3with dpkg -i, and it looks to

Re: Success on an iBook G4 - X not working out of the box

Hi Adrian, Did you actually enable LXDE from the task selection during installation? When I tested the image on my G4, I selected MATE and it installed fine. I did have to install the firmware though but nothing else. I installed LXDE manually, so no, I did not use the task selection. I am al

Re: Success on an iBook G4 - X not working out of the box

ba bug tracker :(. > Debian now installs without major obstacles on this old iBook (I used the > powerpc > image of 19.4.2020). The only thing that I found so far is that X does not > work > out of the box. My iBook G4 has an ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 card. I had to > manu

Success on an iBook G4 - X not working out of the box

Hi all! First of all I want to thank Adrian Glaubitz for the fantastic job he did. Debian now installs without major obstacles on this old iBook (I used the powerpc image of 19.4.2020). The only thing that I found so far is that X does not work out of the box. My iBook G4 has an ATI Mobility

Re: ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 and iBook G3's

2020, 10:25 PM Michael Cree wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:12:10PM -0400, Steve Burkhart wrote: >> > While we're on the topic of display driver problems, does anyone know >> why >> > the ATI Radeon 7500 found in many iBook G3 models is non functi

Re: ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 and iBook G3's

hy > > the ATI Radeon 7500 found in many iBook G3 models is non functional with > > Xorg? After installing the non free firmware, the screen just blinks, and > > eventually freezes. I've encountered this problem on 500Mhz, 600MHz, > > 700MHz, 800MHz, and 900MHz iBooks

Re: ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 and iBook G3's

On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:12:10PM -0400, Steve Burkhart wrote: > While we're on the topic of display driver problems, does anyone know why > the ATI Radeon 7500 found in many iBook G3 models is non functional with > Xorg? After installing the non free firmware, the screen ju

ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 and iBook G3's

While we're on the topic of display driver problems, does anyone know why the ATI Radeon 7500 found in many iBook G3 models is non functional with Xorg? After installing the non free firmware, the screen just blinks, and eventually freezes. I've encountered this problem on 500Mhz, 600M

PowerBook / iBook sleep

Hi, what is the best way to control "sleep" on our beloved old mac laptops? E.g. often I want to avoid it, to be able to close the laptop lid and work "remotely" through telnet/ssh. Back in the time, I just inhibited a PMU service and it stopped doing it. Now could it still be done? I tried

GPU hardware acceleration broken on iBook G3's

GPU hardware acceleration has been broken on iBook G3's (Mobility 7500, Mobility Rage) since Jessie, and I was wondering if this is due to developers lack of hardware, or it being a low priority. If it is due to a lack of hardware, I would be happy to donate a machine to whomever wou

Re: iBook G4 - Wireless

On 7/4/19 9:51 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> If you find something like those missing packages, put it on the TODO list >> in the Debian Wiki for PowerPC. The b43-fwcutter package is already on the >> list, however, so don’t worry. > > just a kind reminder: it

Re: iBook G4 - Wireless

Hi Adrian John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: If you find something like those missing packages, put it on the TODO list in the Debian Wiki for PowerPC. The b43-fwcutter package is already on the list, however, so don’t worry. just a kind reminder: it is still missing :) Riccardo

Re: iBook G4 - Wireless

> On Feb 4, 2019, at 2:22 PM, Riccardo Mottola > wrote: > > PS: it would of course help other users of this card to have b43-fwcutte > readily available in current apt sources. Yes, I am aware of that. We have that already on the list but my time is limited and working on Debian Ports is n

Re: iBook G4 - Wireless

will have enough space there to set up allBCM4306 my retro computers, including one iBook G4. Although, I don't know what kind of wireless chipset mine has. I have two iBook G4 though, so maybe we're lucky one of them has the right chipset. If you can wait until then, I will be able to hel

Re: iBook G4 - Wireless

On 2/2/19 2:23 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > dmesg tells me: > [16259.858142] b43-wlan ERROR: Dual-core devices are not supported > [16259.861747] b43: probe of ssb0:0 failed with error -524 > [16259.878169] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PNLS ] > > my iBook is for

Re: iBook G4 - Wireless

! dmesg tells me: [16259.858142] b43-wlan ERROR: Dual-core devices are not supported [16259.861747] b43: probe of ssb0:0 failed with error -524 [16259.878169] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PNLS ] my iBook is for sure not Dual-core! would be too nice :) Riccardo

Re: iBook G4 - Wireless

> On Feb 1, 2019, at 4:20 PM, Riccardo Mottola > wrote: > > Hi all, > > Riccardo Mottola wrote: >> >> any news on getting b43-fwcutter in our current repositories? >> >> Alternatively, how can I install the sid version: can I somehow download the >> .deb manually (from where?) and install

Re: iBook G4 - Wireless

Hi all, Riccardo Mottola wrote: any news on getting b43-fwcutter in our current repositories? Alternatively, how can I install the sid version: can I somehow download the .deb manually (from where?) and install it with dpkg? may I ask again? I'm still using an USB dongle which is pretty i

Re: iBook G4 - Wireless

Hi all! swamprock wrote: You can use Jessie’s fwcutter. This is what I did when I discovered that it hadn’t been updated for sid. any news on getting b43-fwcutter in our current repositories? Alternatively, how can I install the sid version: can I somehow download the .deb manually (from wh

Re: iBook G4 - Wireless

Sent from ProtonMail Mobile On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 2:09 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi, > > Brock suggested me to look here: > > https://wiki.debian.org/PowerPC/FAQ#How_do_I_get_wireless_working.3F > > there is a typo for sure, lscpi is probably lspci,. > > In any case it suggests firmware-b4

Re: iBook G4 - Wireless

Hi, Brock suggested me to look here: https://wiki.debian.org/PowerPC/FAQ#How_do_I_get_wireless_working.3F there is a typo for sure, lscpi is probably lspci,. In any case it suggests firmware-b43-installer, however that one and firmware-b43legacy-installer require the package b43-fwcutter

Re: iBook G4 - Radeon firmware

Hi Candy! On 1/5/19 8:56 PM, Candy Gumdrop wrote: deb [arch=all]http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid contrib non-free After this you should be able to install the firmware as follows: sudo apt update sudo apt install firmware-amd-graphics thanks... that was needed to get the co

Re: iBook G4 - Radeon firmware

fic ATI or Radeon firmware. Hi Riccardo, I'm using a 12" iBook with a slightly different GPU than yours (R300 instead of R200 firmware), but I can confirm it works by installing either the `firmware-amd-graphics` package or just `firmware-linux`. As these are non-free packages which I do

iBook G4 - Radeon firmware

Hi, could you give me a hint for the right firmare to install for my radeon? I get [   19.569835] [drm] Loading R200 Microcode [   19.742631] radeon :00:10.0: firmware: failed to load radeon/R200_cp.bin (-2) [   19.742677] firmware_class: See https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for informat

iBook G4 - Wireless

Hi! I have my running iBook G4 14" now! The 14" model does have a pluggable Airport card, different from the 12" which had one socketed to the mainboard. I got one on ebay, but I cannot see it. Hoping that it is not broken, I suspect some missing driver or so. Where to lo

Re: issue booting CD iso on iBook G4

Hi Adrian! John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: It's not showing any partitions, see "List of all partitions". It looks like it's not even detecting your hard drive. but the installer knerl detected everything and installed, the installed kernel not, isn't that strange? I wonder if it is due to

Re: issue booting CD iso on iBook G4

On 11/30/18 11:09 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:> The extract of the boot dmesg says, screenshot attached. It's not showing any partitions, see "List of all partitions". It looks like it's not even detecting your hard drive. I will create new images this weekend, then you can retry. Adrian -- .

Re: issue booting CD iso on iBook G4

> On Nov 30, 2018, at 10:00 AM, Riccardo Mottola > wrote: > > I am doing a second installation attempt right now, keeping the original > parittions but reformatting them; but... Rather than reinstalling, you should give us a screenshot or a textcopy of the kernel panic. Adrian

Re: issue booting CD iso on iBook G4

Hi, Riccardo Mottola wrote: I tried booting of from the USB, but I don't know where to get the system yaboot.conf from now I have an installed systen (I hope) but cannot boot it. My idea was to do the same USB trick again, but on the ard disk, thus doing: 1. boot usb1/disk@1:,\install\yab

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