Re: RE: startx goes to black screen with mouse pointer

2015-07-01 Thread Peter Saisanas
Hi Luigi, The pagesize issue does not affect the radeon driver, only the nouveau driver. Your issue is different, let me guess, you are using the gdm3 login manager? You should use xfce desktop and lightdm login manager. I install lightdm. Disable gdm3 by performing the following command. ser

Re: Re: startx goes to black screen with mouse pointer

2015-07-01 Thread Peter Saisanas
Hi Jonny The click on the each, the kernel image and kernel headers deb package files to download. The Google Drive link is listed below again. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8pqd5Ots1vffmY5ZnpGUDg4UGNnVFk2M05tQUtEUUkwUmhmQWdLMWpfZGVraDIxSFltb1k Cheers, Peter

RE: startx goes to black screen with mouse pointer

2015-07-01 Thread luigi burdo
an Subject: Re: startx goes to black screen with mouse pointer On Jun 30, 2015, at 5:24 AM, Jonni O'Gorman wrote: mate gives the same result - don’t have a lot of time to fiddle around with it - but IO will try again at some stage and report back on any success - its very interesting tha

Re: startx goes to black screen with mouse pointer

2015-07-01 Thread Jonni O'Gorman
Hi Rick, I tried that link but it doesn't go anywhere informative - can you provide a link to the kernal build you are referring to i.e. "Peter Saisanas has build a fixed kernel for us G5 users that he wants us to try. In that thread, he gives very complete instructions for how to install it."

Re: startx goes to black screen with mouse pointer

2015-06-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 30, 2015, at 5:24 AM, Jonni O'Gorman wrote: > mate gives the same result - don’t have a lot of time to fiddle around with > it - but IO will try again at some stage and report back on any success - its > very interesting that yellowdoglinux 6.2 runs to graphics display no problem > but

Re: startx goes to black screen with mouse pointer

2015-06-26 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 26, 2015, at 3:16 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Jun 26, 2015, at 12:25 AM, Dan DeVoto wrote: > >> About the messed up colors with "nomodeset", what happens when you try it >> with "video=offb:off"? Can you at least get 8 bit colors? > > When I try that, the rolling boot messages fre

Re: startx goes to black screen with mouse pointer

2015-06-26 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 26, 2015, at 12:25 AM, Dan DeVoto wrote: > I got the nouveau.noaccel=1 from this blog post on G5s: > > http://powerpcliberation.blogspot.ca/2015/05/jessie-meets-bigmac.html Thanks! This will make for interesting reading… -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debia

Re: startx goes to black screen with mouse pointer

2015-06-26 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 26, 2015, at 12:25 AM, Dan DeVoto wrote: > About the messed up colors with "nomodeset", what happens when you try it > with "video=offb:off"? Can you at least get 8 bit colors? When I try that, the rolling boot messages freeze after a couple of screens-full. I can login with ssh and

Re: startx goes to black screen with mouse pointer

2015-06-26 Thread Dan DeVoto
ast get 8 bit colors? On Tue, 6/23/15, Rick Thomas wrote: Subject: Re: startx goes to black screen with mouse pointer To: "Jonni O'Gorman" Cc: "PowerPC List Debian" Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2015, 11:28 PM On Jun 22, 2015, at 7:15 AM, Jonni O'Gorman

Re: startx goes to black screen with mouse pointer

2015-06-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 24, 2015, at 1:20 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Jun 24, 2015, at 1:07 PM, Dan DeVoto wrote: > >> Rick, >> >> Did you try the boot parameter "nouveau.noaccel=1"? I've read other G5 >> users report success with that. >> >> Regards, >> >> Dan > > Thanks, Dan! I'll give it a try and re

Re: startx goes to black screen with mouse pointer

2015-06-24 Thread luigi burdo
Hi guys it start black screen to me too. i have a quad g5 with 7800gtx pcie and radeonhd too with nouveau.noaccel=1 nothing change. with radeonhd i have the same issue.if i make a xorg.conf the system freeze with a black screen the problem affect xorg it crashing with core dump. luigi Inviato d

Re: startx goes to black screen with mouse pointer

2015-06-24 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks, Dan! I'll give it a try and report back. Where did you read about this? I'd be interested in seeing what other G5 users have to say. We're a bit thin on the ground here in Debian-user land! Enjoy! Rick On Jun 24, 2015, at 1:07 PM, Dan DeVoto wrote: > Rick, > > Did you try the boo

Re: startx goes to black screen with mouse pointer

2015-06-24 Thread Dan DeVoto
Rick, Did you try the boot parameter "nouveau.noaccel=1"? I've read other G5 users report success with that. Regards, Dan On Tue, 6/23/15, Rick Thomas wrote: Subject: Re: startx goes to black screen with mouse pointer To: "

Re: startx goes to black screen with mouse pointer

2015-06-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 22, 2015, at 7:15 AM, Jonni O'Gorman wrote: > Hi, > > I installed base system with System Utilities on mac G5 then followed this > tutorial to get a simple gui setup > > http://ppcluddite.blogspot.ie/2012/03/installing-debian-linux-on-ppc-part-iii.html > > I also ran the command > sy