I'm sorry, this would be a question best answered by Peter.. as this is the
first time I've installed a kernel myself. I'm not sure how to determine
whether it is a "localmodconfig" build
On Wed., 9 Nov. 2016 at 15:18, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Daniel Cavalli
>
On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Daniel Cavalli wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> firstly thanks very much for providing the kernel images.
>
> yesterday I installed Jessie on my newly acquired G5 powerpc (GeForce FX
> 5200 Ultra) and experienced problems with nouveau, which I used the
> parameter nouveau.no
Hi Peter,
firstly thanks very much for providing the kernel images.
yesterday I installed Jessie on my newly acquired G5 powerpc (GeForce FX
5200 Ultra) and experienced problems with nouveau, which I used the
parameter nouveau.noaccel=1 as a workaround to get a functioning system.
So I have inst
Hi Darren,
I don't have a iMac G5 to tinker with, but according to your description
it sounds like the OFfb console display seems fine up until the nouveau
module loads and after the nouveau console handover occurs, the display
seems to get distorted on the built-in LCD afterwards. Have i corr
Hello Peter,
First, thank you for all of the work you've put into getting these G5's
to run linux. I would not have gotten so far without your work.
I have tried to use your 3.18.16 and 4.5.0-rc2 kernel but I have a
problem in both cases: my screen is covered in wiggly, dancing
distortion. I
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Datum: 15. 11. 2015 21:42:16
Předmět: Re: Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues
"Hi,
It looks like you are not booting from the 3.18.16 kernel.
If you have installed the packages, you need to create an entry for the
new kernel by editing /etc/yaboot.conf and once saved run yb
On 07/02/16 21:34, Peter Saisanas wrote:
Do you happen to have an xorg.conf? if so, please remove it.
Xorg should probe for your screens and not need an xorg.conf.
It shouldn't need any kernel parameters passed But stranger things
have happened!
Thanks for your help Peter
No. There's no xo
Hi Rick
It seems to be related to the DVI port; DVI-I-1 works but DVI-I-2
doesn't. When I swap the monitors around it's the non-mac one which
works.
$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 4096 x 4096
DVI-I-1 connected primary 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted righ
On 07/02/16 17:45, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Feb 7, 2016, at 6:49 AM, Clive Menzies wrote:
Upgrading to stretch from a fresh jessie install with 4.5.0-rc2 kernel
installed worked fine. :-)
xfce4 display settings is recognising both monitors but the second (which is
different resolution to the m
snd-powermac is not built in for a reason..
snd-aoa is the newer driver and supports the G5's better.
snd-aoa and snd-powermac modules conflict and to save from people
blacklisting modules, i removed the older snd-powermac from the build
config.
snd-aoa should work straight away. if it doesn't,
On Feb 7, 2016, at 6:49 AM, Clive Menzies wrote:
> Upgrading to stretch from a fresh jessie install with 4.5.0-rc2 kernel
> installed worked fine. :-)
>
> xfce4 display settings is recognising both monitors but the second (which is
> different resolution to the mac screen) still won't come up
On 07/02/16 02:50, Clive Menzies wrote:
On 07/02/16 02:32, Brock Wittrock wrote:
I downloaded Peter's 4.5.0-rc2 kernel, installed it, and updated my
yaboot.conf but still the same issue. But honestly I could have
missed something when configuring my system to boot from his newer
kernel. Planni
work on mate 15,10 too with nouveau on 7800gtx 512mb Quad g5no 3d but work
ah no snd-powermac module (forget about? ;-))
Luigi
> Subject: Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues
> From: rbtho...@pobox.com
> Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 23:06:18 -0800
> CC: csae2...@uibk.ac.at; psaisa.
On Feb 6, 2016, at 2:11 PM, Peter Saisanas wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> In my opinion, the best way to install Debian would be to just install using
> a Jessie release.
> When installing, ensure you install an SSH server in addition to be able to
> login via another computer if you happen to have
On 07/02/16 02:32, Brock Wittrock wrote:
I'm in the same boat and unfortunately haven't found the time to sail
my way out of it just yet. What I do know is if I boot with an old
3.18 kernel I have, everything works out okay again. I believe it was
mentioned already that this could be related to
I'm in the same boat and unfortunately haven't found the time to sail my way
out of it just yet. What I do know is if I boot with an old 3.18 kernel I have,
everything works out okay again. I believe it was mentioned already that this
could be related to the issue with binutils being used to bui
On 06/02/16 22:12, Clive Menzies wrote:
On 06/02/16 20:52, Peter Saisanas wrote:
Regarding my config, currently am running 4.5.0-rc2 kernel, xfce
desktop and on Debian stretch (testing) repo's.
As a side note, on the testing repo's, the only package that I
personally have noticed that has bro
On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 09:35:21AM +1100, Peter Saisanas wrote:
> It probably affects everyone trying to build a BE 64bit PPC kernel,
> perhaps others as well.
Oops, I read too quickly the patch headline, the fix is not for
binutils, it is for the kernel. And it is a one liner, trivial to apply
b
It probably affects everyone trying to build a BE 64bit PPC kernel,
perhaps others as well.
I don't have a Power 8 running LE 64bit...
But If anyone would like to donate one and pay my power bill, by all
means ill give it a try :)
Its a bit of a chore downgrading to binutils 2.25-5 every time
Hi Richard,
In my opinion, the best way to install Debian would be to just install
using a Jessie release.
When installing, ensure you install an SSH server in addition to be able
to login via another computer if you happen to have display issues
(which you probably will).
I believe the stre
On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 07:52:37AM +1100, Peter Saisanas wrote:
> Hi Clive,
>
> Glad you got your G5 up and running!
>
> Regarding my config, currently am running 4.5.0-rc2 kernel, xfce
> desktop and on Debian stretch (testing) repo's.
>
> As a side note, on the testing repo's, the only package
On 06/02/16 20:52, Peter Saisanas wrote:
Regarding my config, currently am running 4.5.0-rc2 kernel, xfce
desktop and on Debian stretch (testing) repo's.
As a side note, on the testing repo's, the only package that I
personally have noticed that has broken and affected me recently is
binutils
On Feb 6, 2016, at 1:06 PM, Richard Kuenz wrote:
> Hello ,
>
> some day ago i tried to install Stretch PPC using Installer-Alpha 4 - but it
> always finished off when tryxing to install Software Packages. Why is that so?
> Do i need to use always the latest installers (in this case Alpha-5 i g
Hi Clive,
Glad you got your G5 up and running!
Regarding my config, currently am running 4.5.0-rc2 kernel, xfce desktop
and on Debian stretch (testing) repo's.
As a side note, on the testing repo's, the only package that I
personally have noticed that has broken and affected me recently is
Hello ,
some day ago i tried to install Stretch PPC using Installer-Alpha 4 -
but it always finished off when tryxing to install Software Packages.
Why is that so?
Do i need to use always the latest installers (in this case Alpha-5 i
guess)?
Jessie installed fine , though.
I bought also a Rad
On Feb 6, 2016, at 9:36 AM, Clive Menzies wrote:
> At present, I've just got jessie and will probably stick with it until I find
> it limits functionality. I used to run sid but I'd break my system every so
> often — not great for productivity :-)
I'm not sure -- Peter will know -- but the 4.
On 06/02/16 17:01, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Feb 6, 2016, at 2:16 AM, Clive Menzies wrote:
On 06/02/16 07:26, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Feb 5, 2016, at 2:43 PM, Clive Menzies wrote:
In this context, reading back through the threads I see that Peter has rolled
some 4.* kernels. Any suggestions a
Sorry Rick if this is the third time but Icedove started screwing around
and sending messages from the wrong address which isn't registered with
the list. See below.
On 06/02/16 17:27, Clive Menzies wrote:
On 06/02/16 17:01, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Feb 6, 2016, at 2:16 AM, Clive Menzies
wrot
On 06/02/16 17:01, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Feb 6, 2016, at 2:16 AM, Clive Menzies wrote:
On 06/02/16 07:26, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Feb 5, 2016, at 2:43 PM, Clive Menzies wrote:
In this context, reading back through the threads I see that Peter has rolled
some 4.* kernels. Any suggestions a
On Feb 6, 2016, at 2:16 AM, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On 06/02/16 07:26, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> On Feb 5, 2016, at 2:43 PM, Clive Menzies wrote:
>>
>>> In this context, reading back through the threads I see that Peter has
>>> rolled some 4.* kernels. Any suggestions as to which one I try first a
On 06/02/16 10:16, Clive Menzies wrote:
On 06/02/16 07:26, Rick Thomas wrote:
If your G5 is a "PowerMac11,2" like mine, then Peter's
"4.4.0-rc7-powerpc64" kernel works well for me with the "VGA
compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600 LE] (rev
a2)" graphics card.
Than
On 06/02/16 07:26, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Feb 5, 2016, at 2:43 PM, Clive Menzies wrote:
In this context, reading back through the threads I see that Peter has rolled
some 4.* kernels. Any suggestions as to which one I try first and any
particular messages in the thread I should pay attention
On Feb 5, 2016, at 2:43 PM, Clive Menzies wrote:
> In this context, reading back through the threads I see that Peter has rolled
> some 4.* kernels. Any suggestions as to which one I try first and any
> particular messages in the thread I should pay attention to?
If your G5 is a "PowerMac11,2
ttention to?
>
> Thanks
>
> Clive
>
>
> On 29/12/15 12:28, luigi burdo wrote:
>
> Warning guys on the 4.3 kernel im facing a strange bug on quad g5
>
> "Problem Loading in-kernel X.509 Certificate (-74)"
>
> i read someware it is fixed in 4.3.3 (i hope
d someware it is fixed in 4.3.3 (i hope in the 4.3.3)
The issue make the system not loading .
Luigi
> Subject: Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues
> From: rbtho...@pobox.com
> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 21:08:46 -0800
> CC: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> To: psaisa...@g
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 07:25:54AM +1100, Peter Saisanas wrote:
> Hi Rick,
>
> The only kernel i have in my google drive link that is more or less a
> typical Debian kernel config with tweaks was the initial 3.18.16 kernel i
> originally had available. IIRC, should be in the google shared drive li
Hi Peter,
> On Dec 30, 2015, at 12:25 PM, Peter Saisanas wrote:
>
> I don't have much spare time right now, but when spare time is available, ill
> attempt more kernel builds and keep them close to a typical Debian kernel
> config if possible.
That would be great. I’m testing things as I hav
Hi Rick,
The only kernel i have in my google drive link that is more or less a
typical Debian kernel config with tweaks was the initial 3.18.16 kernel
i originally had available. IIRC, should be in the google shared drive
link "Debian Jessie 8.1 PPC64 Kernel".
Link for this particular folder
Warning guys on the 4.3 kernel im facing a strange bug on quad g5
"Problem Loading in-kernel X.509 Certificate (-74)"
i read someware it is fixed in 4.3.3 (i hope in the 4.3.3)
The issue make the system not loading .
Luigi
> Subject: Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues
Hi Peter,
I finally got around (very sorry for the long delay!) to testing your 4.3
kernel on my G5.
But I ran into a snag: The 4.3.0 kernel doesn’t seem to have MD (raid)
configured in.
Is there a reason for that? Could you build one that does?
Thanks!
Rick
On Nov 15, 2015, at 12:23 PM, Pe
Hi all,
I followed peter's guide and successfully installed debian8 with updated
kernel and MATE desktop, however my hard drive soon became corrupted so I
ma back to square one with a hunk of metal I am still trying to trun intop
a functioning computer... worked well for a whie though...
jonny
O
2015-11-15 21:23 GMT+01:00, Peter Saisanas :
(...)
>
> Please let me know how you go.
>
> Regards,
> Peter
>
Next weeckend will try this. Last time I touched yaboot I was unable
to boot. So I reinstaled and this moment I'm using debian 7 stacked
Xorg and Old NV driver.
I install squeeze, them upgr
Just to clarify,
I meant it should also work for Powermac G5's with AGP graphics (64 bit
cpu's only).
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Peter Saisanas
wrote:
> It sure is for for our machines, i.e. the Powermac G5 11.2 (i.e. with
> PCIe).
> It should also work for the Powermac's with AGP graphic
It sure is for for our machines, i.e. the Powermac G5 11.2 (i.e. with PCIe).
It should also work for the Powermac's with AGP graphics as well, (cant
remember if i left AGP enabled)
Please give it a try, just remember to disable MSI interrupts by passing
the module option as described. Let me know
Thanks for doing this, Peter!
I have a powermac 11,2 machine, currently running your 3.18.16 kernel. Would
this new 4.3.0 kernel work with it? If so, I can give it a try.
Enjoy!
Rick
On Nov 15, 2015, at 12:23 PM, Peter Saisanas wrote:
> MSI interrupts are enabled again in this kernel, but s
Hi,
It looks like you are not booting from the 3.18.16 kernel.
If you have installed the packages, you need to create an entry for the
new kernel by editing /etc/yaboot.conf and once saved run ybin -v.
Also, i have built a 4.3.0 kernel deb package.
Aside from the newer kernel, it also has a no
I answer to my self:
I checked now that it is not your kernel loaded.
I change the yaboot and let you know
cheers!!
2015-11-14 9:51 GMT+01:00, Ala de Dragón :
> Hi Peter. :D
>
> Maybe I'm confussed because there are a few post about this problem.
>
> 2015-06-29 23:55 GMT+02:00, Peter Saisanas
Hi Peter. :D
Maybe I'm confussed because there are a few post about this problem.
2015-06-29 23:55 GMT+02:00, Peter Saisanas :
(...)
> The link is below and has been up for a few hours:
>
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8pqd5Ots1vffmY5ZnpGUDg4UGNnVFk2M05tQUtEUUkwUmhmQWdLMWpfZGVraDIxSFltb1k
Hi Rick,
I should probably start a new thread for reports
Seems odd to me that systemd is attempting to load modules ppdev,
parport_pc along with snd-powermac...
Are you sure you are booting up with my actual compiled kernel and initrd?
Please confirm your /etc/yaboot.conf file has entrie
On Jun 30, 2015, at 3:48 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> I’ll definitely report on how things work on my hardware with your kernel,
> but it will have to wait til after the weekend. 4th of July == US
> Independence Day == lots of neighborhood/family/etc parties and celebrations
> == no time for pla
Hello Peter,
I might actually have a 6600 and 7800 laying around so if I can I post results
of those as well, but it may be just a couple of days.
Of the three issues I will start with the first. I will touch base with the
nouveau developers and see if they can revisit the issue soon and offer
Hi Brock,
That's great news! Hopefully a few more people are willing to try this out.
I set the compiler flags to be tuned specifically for the Power 4 /
PPC970 (G5) cpu's with altivec so its unlikely to be suitable for any
other powerpc64 based machines.
Perhaps someone else with a PCIe GeFo
Peter,
I did a fresh install of Jessie with LXDE and then installed the kernel
image and headers you uploaded on my G5 (11,2) with a Quadro FX4500 Nivida
card. After adding an entry in yaboot.conf and running sudo ybin -v, I
rebooted successfully to the login screen without having to pass in any
Hi Milan,
I have submitted the following Debian bugs:
Bug#790690: linux-image-3.16.0-4-powerpc64: powerpc64 & 64Kb kernel
pagesize not working with nouveau
Bug#790694: linux-image-3.16.0-4-powerpc64: nouveau driver and msi
interrupts
Regarding the issue mentioned with vanilla 4.0.7 kernel and
On 06/30/2015 05:56 AM, Peter Saisanas wrote:
[...]
> You cant get nouveau working with your current kernel. Period. It
> doesn't matter what kernel options or module options you pass,
> nouveau with acceleration just doesn't currently work with a 64kb
> pagesize kernel.
>
> You are falling bac
Awesome.
Thanks Rick.
FYI, i have also built a 4.0.7 kernel deb package as well.
But nouveau will not correctly read the nVidia DCB from Open Firmware as
per pre 4.0.0 kernel versions.
So i guess for now lets try and get some more systems up and running
with kernel 3.18.16 and Debian Jessie and
Hi Peter,
I get it. What you describe is in the plans — and thanks very much for the
detailed directions; it’s pretty much what I had planned to do myself, but it’s
always nice to have confirmation. Actually, even better, I plan to re-install
with stock-out-of-the-box Jessie plus your tweaked
Rick,
You cant get nouveau working with your current kernel. Period.
It doesn't matter what kernel options or module options you pass,
nouveau with acceleration just doesn't currently work with a 64kb
pagesize kernel.
You are falling back to the openfirmware framebuffer. I have told you to
di
It should, i don't see why it wouldn't.
The package will install an additional kernel for you, just add an entry
in yaboot.conf.
It works pretty good, im typing this with the jessie kernel image made
as we speak!
Cheers,
Peter
On 30/06/15 18:10, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Jun 28, 2015, at 11:58
On Jun 28, 2015, at 11:58 PM, Peter Saisanas wrote:
> Ill look into making a 4Kb pagesize kernel as a deb package. The 4.0+ version
> kernels require extra mucking around (for the DCB issues)...
>
> Is a kernel from the 3.18 series ok? Where can I upload a deb package?
>
If the 3.18 series w
On Jun 28, 2015, at 11:58 PM, Peter Saisanas wrote:
> Hi Rick,
> I would be curious to see your dmesg log as well.
dmesg
Description: Binary data
yaboot.conf
Description: Binary data
Attached dmesg and yaboot.conf. Note: In yaboot.conf the default boot (which
produced this dmesg) is “Si
Hi Brock
The link is below and has been up for a few hours:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8pqd5Ots1vffmY5ZnpGUDg4UGNnVFk2M05tQUtEUUkwUmhmQWdLMWpfZGVraDIxSFltb1k
As promised, above is a Google Drive link for a 64 Bit G5 Powermac
3.18.16 kernel and headers deb packages for Debian Jessie.
T
Wherever you do place this pre-compiled kernel, I'll gladly test it on my
dual core G5 with an FX4500. I've beating my head against the wall on this
one for the past couple of weeks. I'm nowhere near knowledge on the matter
though, so basically just feeling in the dark and doing a lot of reading
Peter I would suggest opening a topic over here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=328
there you would get attention of enthusiasts and hardware owners a like.
There are also some Amiga folks around that might be interested to test on
their compatible hardware.
If you do make sure the t
Hey, thx Peter!
I have no G5 system to currently test this on myself (briefly had a single
core G5 PowerMac sadly it's mainboard got damaged when the PSU blew).
Am 29.06.2015 15:00 schrieb "Peter Saisanas" :
> Hi Boris,
>
> As promised, I have attached a Google Drive link for a 64 BitG5 Powe
Other hosting options that might be useable are dropbox (which until
recenlty still had a ppc OSX client (not that it's really needed), or
mega.nz, the latter tho insists on writing files from JavaScript directly
to disk which causes issues in every browser other than chrome (certainly
problematic
Sounds like a plan!
Well I have good experience with google drive's file hosting, seems to work
well, easy to use, reliable, for smaller projects their free hosting should
suffice so for a fairly small crowd like ours it's plenty I guess.
I think we could count on files staying available there.
A
I agree Boris.
In my opinion, i think it is best to have something running out of the
box for users to have working with little effort to keep interest alive
in the platform.
On my dev drive currently i am building a deb package of the latest 3.18
kernel. I have based the kernel config off th
Hello Peter,
amazing thx for pointing this out, we need to preserve and document this
information as detailed as possible.
Based on the details you mentioned someone could add information to the ppc
faq and known issues/ workaround intructions, but it might be best if you
did it yourself, seeing
Hi Rick,
You have a 64Kb pagesize kernel. Don't waste your time trying to
get nouveau working on it for now.
You need a 4Kb pagesize kernel.
Also, I bet with a newer kernel, i.e. what you seem to be using,
the nouveau module will fail to load as it cannot find the DCB block. I
would be curious to
Wow! Thanks Peter!
I’d pretty much given up on getting nouveau graphics working on my G5 (I plan
on using it as a headless server anyway, so graphics is not on the critical
path).
This gives hope.
Here’s the data on my machine…
> root@bigal:~# getconf PAGESIZE
> 65536
> root@bigal:~# cat /p
Hi,
I also have a Powermac G5 Quad and tried with both the Geforce 6600 and
Quadro FX4500 video cards and I have successfully gotten it up and running
using the nouveau driver along with 2D acceleration on the XOrg desktop. I
have compiled many newer kernels and created debian packages for them.
That's what I did. Have lxde running, seems to be doing pretty good, idling ~8%
and 323MB.
On June 9, 2015 6:59:48 PM CDT, Herminio Hernandez Jr
wrote:
>Use LXDE or XFCE. They are much more lightweight and you will have a
>better experience.
>
>On Tue, 09 Jun 2015 18:20:23 -0500
>Dylan wrote:
LXDE is a great DE and also very customizable
On Tue, 09 Jun 2015 19:54:57 -0500
Dylan wrote:
> That's what I did. Have lxde running, seems to be doing pretty good, idling
> ~8% and 323MB.
>
> On June 9, 2015 6:59:48 PM CDT, Herminio Hernandez Jr
> wrote:
> >Use LXDE or XFCE. They are much
Use LXDE or XFCE. They are much more lightweight and you will have a better
experience.
On Tue, 09 Jun 2015 18:20:23 -0500
Dylan wrote:
> That actually worked. It's REALLY slow in software rendering though, might
> have to install kde or something :(
>
> Thanks,
> Dylan
>
> On June 9, 2015 9
That actually worked. It's REALLY slow in software rendering though, might have
to install kde or something :(
Thanks,
Dylan
On June 9, 2015 9:15:56 AM CDT, Brock Wittrock wrote:
>On my dual core G5, I have to disable hardware acceleration when using
>the
>nouveau driver by adding this to my ya
On my dual core G5, I have to disable hardware acceleration when using the
nouveau driver by adding this to my yaboot parameters.
nouveau.noaccel=1
If that works, you'll want to add this to your /etc/yaboot.conf file as the
last line under your default kernel (probably named Linux) as well to make
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