Re: old G5 iMac with NVIDIA card

2016-06-10 Thread Programmingkid
On Jun 10, 2016, at 4:39 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Programmingkid > wrote: >> >> On Jun 10, 2016, at 3:42 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> >>> Dear Programmingkind, >>> >>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: On 10.06.2016 15:45, M

Re: old G5 iMac with NVIDIA card

2016-06-10 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Programmingkid wrote: > > On Jun 10, 2016, at 3:42 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > >> Dear Programmingkind, >> >> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: >>> On 10.06.2016 15:45, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Michel, On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at

Re: old G5 iMac with NVIDIA card

2016-06-10 Thread Programmingkid
On Jun 10, 2016, at 3:42 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Dear Programmingkind, > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: >> On 10.06.2016 15:45, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >>> Michel, >>> >>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 4:03 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: On 10.06.2016 05:44, Programm

Re: old G5 iMac with NVIDIA card

2016-06-10 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Dear Programmingkind, On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On 10.06.2016 15:45, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> Michel, >> >> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 4:03 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: >>> On 10.06.2016 05:44, Programmingkid wrote: I have a ATI Radeon 9600 and it has problems. Deb

Re: old G5 iMac with NVIDIA card

2016-06-10 Thread Michel Dänzer
On 10.06.2016 15:45, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Michel, > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 4:03 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: >> On 10.06.2016 05:44, Programmingkid wrote: >>> I have a ATI Radeon 9600 and it has problems. Debian disappointedly >>> booted to a command prompt after installing it. Startx also f

Re: old G5 iMac with NVIDIA card

2016-06-09 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Michel, On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 4:03 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On 10.06.2016 05:44, Programmingkid wrote: >> I have a ATI Radeon 9600 and it has problems. Debian disappointedly >> booted to a command prompt after installing it. Startx also failed to >> load the GUI. This news about making a kern

Re: old G5 iMac with NVIDIA card

2016-06-09 Thread Michel Dänzer
On 10.06.2016 05:44, Programmingkid wrote: > I have a ATI Radeon 9600 and it has problems. Debian disappointedly > booted to a command prompt after installing it. Startx also failed to > load the GUI. This news about making a kernel that supports 4k pages > might be a solution. The radeon driver d

Re: old G5 iMac with NVIDIA card

2016-06-09 Thread Programmingkid
I have a ATI Radeon 9600 and it has problems. Debian disappointedly booted to a command prompt after installing it. Startx also failed to load the GUI. This news about making a kernel that supports 4k pages might be a solution. I don't have Debian anymore so I can't try it. On Jun 9, 2016, at 4

Re: old G5 iMac with NVIDIA card

2016-06-09 Thread Herminio Hernandez, Jr.
radeon comes with its own set of issues On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Steven Grunza wrote: > I suspect my problems are from the nouveau driver - wish I had a ATI > Radeon instead of the nVidia > > > On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 12:51 PM, G 3 wrote: > >> Here is the output of your command on my iMac

Re: old G5 iMac with NVIDIA card

2016-06-09 Thread Steven Grunza
I suspect my problems are from the nouveau driver - wish I had a ATI Radeon instead of the nVidia On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 12:51 PM, G 3 wrote: > Here is the output of your command on my iMac G5: 0 radeondrmfb > > > On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Elimar Riesebieter > wrote: > >> * Steven Grunz

Re: old G5 iMac with NVIDIA card

2016-06-09 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Mathieu Malaterre [2016-06-09 16:20 +0200]: [...] > Nice trick ! I would have used something more like: > > $ lspci -vvx -s $(lspci | grep VGA | cut -f1 -d' ') | grep module I have the graphics support compiled in, so no module can be found. Elimar -- 355/113: Not the famous irrational nu

Re: old G5 iMac with NVIDIA card

2016-06-09 Thread G 3
Here is the output of your command on my iMac G5: 0 radeondrmfb On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * Steven Grunza [2016-06-09 09:45 -0400]: > > [...] > > so it's not using the vesa driver > > > > Must be using the intel driver (which makes sense since this is an i7 >

Re: old G5 iMac with NVIDIA card

2016-06-09 Thread Steven Grunza
LOL - that is _SO_ much easier... [grunzasr@m780 ~]$ cat /proc/fb 0 inteldrmfb On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * Steven Grunza [2016-06-09 09:45 -0400]: > > [...] > > so it's not using the vesa driver > > > > Must be using the intel driver (which makes sense sin

Re: old G5 iMac with NVIDIA card

2016-06-09 Thread Herminio Hernandez Jr.
With those Radeon cards adding this at boot helps radeon.agpmode=-1 Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 9, 2016, at 1:55 AM, G 3 wrote: > > Here is the information: > > :f0:10.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. > [AMD/ATI] RV350 [Radeon 9550/9600/X1050 Series] > > >> On

Re: old G5 iMac with NVIDIA card

2016-06-09 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Steven Grunza [2016-06-09 09:45 -0400]: [...] > so it's not using the vesa driver > > Must be using the intel driver (which makes sense since this is an i7 > laptop). $ cat /proc/fb shows you the framebuffer driver in use which corresponds to the X driver. Elimar -- Never make anything s

Re: old G5 iMac with NVIDIA card

2016-06-09 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * Steven Grunza [2016-06-09 09:45 -0400]: > > [...] >> so it's not using the vesa driver >> >> Must be using the intel driver (which makes sense since this is an i7 >> laptop). > > $ cat /proc/fb > > shows you the framebuffer driver in u

Re: old G5 iMac with NVIDIA card

2016-06-09 Thread Steven Grunza
I don't know if there is a command to indicate what driver is being used by the X11 system. I also don't have a functional debian system at the moment but running sudo grep driver /var/log/Xorg.0.log on my Fedora 22 laptop gives: [40.931]X.Org XInput driver : 21.1 [44.288] (==) Matc

Re: old G5 iMac with NVIDIA card

2016-06-09 Thread G 3
Here is the information: :f0:10.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV350 [Radeon 9550/9600/X1050 Series] On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 10:07 PM, Herminio Hernandez Jr. < herminio.hernande...@gmail.com> wrote: > To see what video card you have run this command > > l

Re: old G5 iMac with NVIDIA card

2016-06-08 Thread Clive Menzies
On 09/06/16 01:03, Steven Grunza wrote: What video driver do you use? On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 6:56 PM, Programmingkid mailto:programmingk...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Jun 8, 2016, at 12:13 PM, Steven Grunza wrote: > Does anyone know if the nouveau driver will work with an old G5 Powe

Re: old G5 iMac with NVIDIA card

2016-06-08 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi Steven, On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 9:24 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 12:13:35PM -0400, Steven Grunza wrote: >> Does anyone know if the nouveau driver will work with an old G5 PowerPC and >> the GeForce FX G05200 it originally used? >> >> The last time I tried it had numero

Re: old G5 iMac with NVIDIA card

2016-06-08 Thread Herminio Hernandez Jr.
To see what video card you have run this command lspci | grep VGA Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 8, 2016, at 6:52 PM, G 3 wrote: > > I gave up on Debian so I don't have it installed anymore. But if you mean > what I have for Ubuntu Mate, I don't know. Maybe someone could send me a > command t

Re: old G5 iMac with NVIDIA card

2016-06-08 Thread G 3
I gave up on Debian so I don't have it installed anymore. But if you mean what I have for Ubuntu Mate, I don't know. Maybe someone could send me a command to execute and I can email the results back to the list. On Jun 8, 2016, at 8:03 PM, Steven Grunza wrote: What video driver do you use

Re: old G5 iMac with NVIDIA card

2016-06-08 Thread Steven Grunza
What video driver do you use? On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 6:56 PM, Programmingkid wrote: > > On Jun 8, 2016, at 12:13 PM, Steven Grunza wrote: > > > Does anyone know if the nouveau driver will work with an old G5 PowerPC > and the GeForce FX G05200 it originally used? > > > > The last time I tried it

Re: old G5 iMac with NVIDIA card

2016-06-08 Thread Programmingkid
On Jun 8, 2016, at 12:13 PM, Steven Grunza wrote: > Does anyone know if the nouveau driver will work with an old G5 PowerPC and > the GeForce FX G05200 it originally used? > > The last time I tried it had numerous problems (no graphics, kernel panics, > etc). > > lsusb reports the video card

Re: old G5 iMac with NVIDIA card

2016-06-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 12:13:35PM -0400, Steven Grunza wrote: > Does anyone know if the nouveau driver will work with an old G5 PowerPC and > the GeForce FX G05200 it originally used? > > The last time I tried it had numerous problems (no graphics, kernel panics, > etc). > > lsusb reports the vi

old G5 iMac with NVIDIA card

2016-06-08 Thread Steven Grunza
Does anyone know if the nouveau driver will work with an old G5 PowerPC and the GeForce FX G05200 it originally used? The last time I tried it had numerous problems (no graphics, kernel panics, etc). lsusb reports the video card as: NVIDIA Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX Go5200] (rev a1) Vario