Re: PPC64/Jessie/TrustyTahr - GraphicFailure

2015-08-27 Thread Brock Wittrock
Richard, Thanks for the additional info. I'm assuming you are using the stock kernel that comes with Jessie? If so, you'll need to either a) re-build your own kernel that that uses 4K page sizes and has MSI interrupts disabled b) download the kernel image provided by Peter Saisanas that has this

Re: PPC64/Jessie/TrustyTahr - GraphicFailure

2015-08-26 Thread Brock Wittrock
Hi Richard, The question almost everybody is going to ask is what kind of graphics card do you have in your G5? Is it dual headed? Brock On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 11:39 AM, richard kuenz wrote: > Hello , > > i would like to use my newly acquired Powermac G5 with Linux PPC for > Kodi/XBMC. > > W

PPC64/Jessie/TrustyTahr - GraphicFailure

2015-08-26 Thread richard kuenz
Hello , i would like to use my newly acquired Powermac G5 with Linux PPC for Kodi/XBMC. With Wheezy i had success installing and configuring sound with the help of this list; so that was really nice. but XBMC did not run as hoped as there were quite some broken dependencies; so i ended up