Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen

2015-05-02 Thread Dan DeVoto
with replies ;) Regards, Dan On Fri, 5/1/15, Rick Thomas wrote: Subject: Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen To: "Dan DeVoto" Cc: "luigi burdo" , "Risto Suominen" , "PowerPC List Debian" D

Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen

2015-05-02 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 1, 2015, at 10:40 PM, Risto Suominen wrote: > Hi Rick, > 2015-04-30 12.49 UTC+03.00, Rick Thomas : >> >> Did you ever discover how to fix it without holding back on the kernel level? > No, I didn't. (Sorry for the late reply.) > I'm using X, so the 'disable KMS' solution doesn't sound go

Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen

2015-05-01 Thread Risto Suominen
Hi Rick, 2015-04-30 12.49 UTC+03.00, Rick Thomas : > > Did you ever discover how to fix it without holding back on the kernel level? > No, I didn't. (Sorry for the late reply.) I'm using X, so the 'disable KMS' solution doesn't sound good. Risto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ

Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen

2015-05-01 Thread Rick Thomas
On 05/01/15 02:41, Rick Thomas wrote: On May 1, 2015, at 1:45 AM, Luigi Burdo wrote: Hi Rick but if you run the X do you have right or wrong colors too? i have a 7800gtx 512mb and the RadeonHD 6570 2gb Luigi I don’t have X installed on this machine. So I can’t answer your question. I’m g

Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen

2015-05-01 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 1, 2015, at 1:45 AM, Luigi Burdo wrote: > Hi Rick but if you run the X do you have right or wrong colors too? > i have a 7800gtx 512mb and the RadeonHD 6570 2gb > > Luigi I don’t have X installed on this machine. So I can’t answer your question. I’m going to be trying the same trick o

Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen

2015-05-01 Thread Luigi Burdo
>> >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=782066 >> >> Also, don't forget to run "sudo ybin -v" after changing yaboot.conf. I >> always forget that. >> >> Regards, >> >> Dan >> >> ---

Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen

2015-05-01 Thread Rick Thomas
ps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=782066 > > Also, don't forget to run "sudo ybin -v" after changing yaboot.conf. I > always forget that. > > Regards, > > Dan > > > On Thu, 4/30/15, Rick Thomas wr

RE: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen

2015-05-01 Thread luigi burdo
be out for all new release :- ( ) > Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 22:49:43 -0700 > From: dand1...@yahoo.com > Subject: Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen > To: rbtho...@pobox.com > CC: intermedi...@hotmail.com; risto.suomi...@gmail.com; > debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org

RE: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen

2015-05-01 Thread luigi burdo
dand1...@yahoo.com > Subject: Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen > To: rbtho...@pobox.com > CC: intermedi...@hotmail.com; risto.suomi...@gmail.com; > debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > > On my machine with an ATI card, the boot parameters "radeon.modeset=0" or >

Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen

2015-04-30 Thread Dan DeVoto
66 Also, don't forget to run "sudo ybin -v" after changing yaboot.conf. I always forget that. Regards, Dan ---------------- On Thu, 4/30/15, Rick Thomas wrote: Subject: Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen To: "Dan DeVoto"

Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen

2015-04-30 Thread Rick Thomas
sktop. > > Regards, > > Dan > > > > On Thu, 4/30/15, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Subject: Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen > To: "luigi burdo" > Cc: "Risto Suominen" , "PowerPC List Debian" > > Date: Thursday, April

Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen

2015-04-30 Thread Dan DeVoto
you'll have an unaccelerated desktop. Regards, Dan On Thu, 4/30/15, Rick Thomas wrote: Subject: Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen To: "luigi burdo" Cc: "Risto Suominen" , "PowerPC List Debian" Date

Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen

2015-04-30 Thread Rick Thomas
t or start x . > > On wheezy delete the xorg.conf and probably you will fix it > > Luigi Burdo > > > Subject: Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen > > From: rbtho...@pobox.com > > Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 02:49:42 -0700 > > CC: debian-powerp

RE: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen

2015-04-30 Thread luigi burdo
I start have this issue on Jessiebut the black screen is the simptom i face because Xorg make a hard crash (reported to xorg devs).switch to tty ... and try to make xinit or start x . On wheezy delete the xorg.conf and probably you will fix it Luigi Burdo > Subject: Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce

Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen

2015-04-30 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Risto, I’m seeing this as well. I have a PowerMac11,2 (dual core G5 7GB RAM) Did you ever discover how to fix it without holding back on the kernel level? Anybody? All clues are welcome! Thanks! Rick On Dec 1, 2014, at 6:16 AM, Risto Suominen wrote: > Hi, > > This is probably an old is

PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen

2014-12-01 Thread Risto Suominen
Hi, This is probably an old issue, possibly discussed before, even on this list. I've been holding my linux-image as version 3.2.0-2 to avoid the problem. So, the problem: after upgrading to 3.2.0-4, X display is not working. According to Xorg.log everything is as before, but the screen remains