Re: radeon 9000 PowerMac G4

2015-05-20 Thread Herminio Hernandez, Jr.
I have heard about G5 issues in Jessie. I baffles me b/c I running testing/stretch on my iBook G4 with accelerated graphics! On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On May 20, 2015, at 7:25 AM, Herminio Hernandez Jr. < > herminio.hernande...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I have had KMS

Re: radeon 9000 PowerMac G4

2015-05-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 20, 2015, at 7:25 AM, Herminio Hernandez Jr. wrote: > I have had KMS working on my PowerBook and iBook G4 machines. This is the > first time those kernel boot options have not worked. > > Sent from my iPhone My PowerMac G5 worked fine with Wheezy. It’s just when I tried loading Jess

Re: radeon 9000 PowerMac G4

2015-05-20 Thread Herminio Hernandez Jr.
I have had KMS working on my PowerBook and iBook G4 machines. This is the first time those kernel boot options have not worked. Sent from my iPhone > On May 20, 2015, at 2:55 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Hi Herminio, > > I gather you’re hoping for video acceleration via KMS? > > If not, you c

Re: radeon 9000 PowerMac G4

2015-05-20 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Herminio, I gather you’re hoping for video acceleration via KMS? If not, you can use boot parameters nomodeset vga=0x31B This gives un-accelerated graphics, but at least it doesn’t freeze (on my machine) or give scrambled colors. The default jessie amd64 install either gives scrambled

Re: radeon 9000 PowerMac G4

2015-05-20 Thread Christophe De Natale
Hi Herminio, According to this : http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/man/man4/radeon.4.xhtml you will be able to have it working. Which video-out are you using to connect the display ? (dvi or adc ?) then did you try twice solutions ? Regarding hardware side, did you check and validate that

radeon 9000 PowerMac G4

2015-05-19 Thread Herminio Hernandez Jr
On a Powermac G4 when I use these parameters radeon.agpmode=-1 radeon.modeset=1 radeon.agpmode=-1 radeon.modeset=1 video=offb:off radeon.agpmode=-1 KMS does not load fbdev does and my colors are all off. However if I do this radeon.modeset=1 video=offb:off video=radeonfb:off radeon.agpmode=-1 th