Re: Re: Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

2016-11-11 Thread Daniel Cavalli
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 >

Re: Re: Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

2016-11-08 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
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

Re: Re: Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

2016-11-07 Thread Daniel Cavalli
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

Re: Re: Re: RE: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

2016-02-24 Thread Peter Saisanas
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

Re: Re: RE: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

2016-02-23 Thread Darren Sutton
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