Re: Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-05-31 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Richard Kuenz wrote: > Hello , > > i am on a fresh install of Debian Wheezy kernel 3.2 on Powermac G5 Dual > (model 7,3) with Radeon 9600XT - very nice. > > atm i am compiling Mpv player > > Can someone please give me a hint how to enable sound on this machine? D

Re: Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-05-27 Thread Richard Kuenz
Hello , i am on a fresh install of Debian Wheezy kernel 3.2 on Powermac G5 Dual (model 7,3) with Radeon 9600XT - very nice. atm i am compiling Mpv player Can someone please give me a hint how to enable sound on this machine? thanks richard ps. i won a Nvidia Ultra 6800 Dual - will i be

Re: Re: Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-02-06 Thread Peter Saisanas
Hi Logan, Oh well, cant say we didn't try everything! So from my recollection, currently the status of Apple OEM or FCODE flashed nVidia GPU's reported working with nouveau on PPC G5's: AGP: GeForce 5200. PCIe: GeForce 6600, GeForce 7800GT, GeForce 7800GTX, Quadro FX4500. Obviously this is wi

Re: Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-02-04 Thread Logan Anteau
Peter, Sorry work has been crazy lately. I finally got a chance to try this tonight...it did not work. No change. We're definitely not having much luck here... Logan On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 3:25 AM, Peter Saisanas wrote: > Hi Anton, > > Ok, a few more things to try, I have googled around and

Re: Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-01-28 Thread Peter Saisanas
Hi Anton, Ok, a few more things to try, I have googled around and found an old post on the mintppc forum. Bear in mind this is from 2012 This may or may not still be relevant or current info, but give it a go. http://www.mintppc.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=810&start=10 According to t

Re: Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-01-27 Thread Logan Anteau
Hi Peter, Yes you're right, I did reach out to the Nouveau mailing list. So far I haven't received any replies on that. I have spoken in #nouveau to "imirkin" and he has not had many ideas. He poked "skeggsb" about it, but never received much of a response from him.. I have only one monitor conne

Re: Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-01-27 Thread Peter Saisanas
Hi Logan, I was hoping that you would reply, i'm curious what your issue is with nouveau. I did see that you have placed a message on the nouveau mailing list, good stuff! For others interested on the Debian PPC mailing list, i have copied the link to your message on the nouveau mailing list

Re: Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-01-14 Thread Logan Anteau
Peter, Thanks for your suggestions. Here's a pastebin of my /proc/interrupts: http://pastebin.com/2ZG4qESD I'll try one of your newer kernels either tonight or tomorrow when I get time. I believe I tried your 3.8.16 kernel and had other issues with it. Networking didn't work out of the box, the

Re: Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-01-14 Thread Peter Saisanas
Hi Logan, The kernel version is quite old (3.16.7). Perhaps you can try something newer. Nouveau continually has improvements practically with each newer kernel version. Perhaps something to consider, try the easy way out and use a pre-compiled kernel deb package that i have available. I have