On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 19:28:53 +0200
"Johannes Brakensiek" wrote:
> I’m using a Radeon HD 6570 now in a PowerMac11,2 and it works quite
> well - it is as fast as I’d expect it to be from a machine of this
> age. The PowerMac11,2 already has got PCIe (1.00) of course, so I
> don’t know if it is sp
On 4/28/21 12:54 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
>> Thanks. I've set up up that repository and I'm now happily using
>> ArcticFox. As an aside, I had also tried Konqueror - it has the same
>> problem as firefox. Epiphany did work but it was extremely slow, taking
>> minutes to load simple pages and the
Hello James,
On 25/04/2021 18:01, James Madgwick wrote:
On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 11:17:28 +0200
Johannes Brakensiek wrote:
Thanks. I've set up up that repository and I'm now happily using
ArcticFox. As an aside, I had also tried Konqueror - it has the same
problem as firefox. Epiphany did work but
On 4/24/21 10:32 PM, James Madgwick wrote:
> Having seen firefox packages in the repository, I was a little
> disappointed (although not surprised) to find they don’t run. The
> ‘Illegal instruction’ error I get looks similar to this:
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2017/02/msg00025.html
On 25 Apr 2021, at 18:01, James Madgwick wrote:
Ultimately I don't think being forced to use fbdev
really matters, these old GPUs have nothing to offer beyond 3D
acceleration - which has little application on this system in 2021. It
would however be interesting to see if this radeon slowness i
On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 11:17:28 +0200
Johannes Brakensiek wrote:
> I don’t know about the other issues, but there is a known issue about
> Firefox and Thunderbird[1] which was fixed by Adrian and should be
> delivered by sid soon.
>
> As long you might want to use ArcticFox from Riccardo Mottola
Hello James,
On 24 Apr 2021, at 22:32, James Madgwick wrote:
james@PowerMac-G5:~$ firefox
Crash Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[0][GFX1-]: glxtest: No
visuals found (t=4.23128) [GFX1-]: glxtest: No visuals found Crash
Annotation GraphicsCriticalError: |[0][GFX1-]: glxtest: No visuals
found
I’m very new to powerpc, having only picked up my G5 two days ago and
never having used any powerpc computer before. But it seems like I
arrived at about the right time. I saw the discussion of a 2021-04-16
installer image on this list, so I burned it to CD, booted it,
installed and booted straight
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