Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

2016-02-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On 06/02/16 07:26, Rick Thomas wrote: On Feb 5, 2016, at 2:43 PM, Clive Menzies wrote: In this context, reading back through the threads I see that Peter has rolled some 4.* kernels. Any suggestions as to which one I try first and any particular messages in the thread I should pay attention

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

2016-02-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On 06/02/16 10:16, Clive Menzies wrote: On 06/02/16 07:26, Rick Thomas wrote: If your G5 is a "PowerMac11,2" like mine, then Peter's "4.4.0-rc7-powerpc64" kernel works well for me with the "VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600 LE] (rev a2)" graphics card. Than

Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

2016-02-06 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 6, 2016, at 2:16 AM, Clive Menzies wrote: > On 06/02/16 07:26, Rick Thomas wrote: >> On Feb 5, 2016, at 2:43 PM, Clive Menzies wrote: >> >>> In this context, reading back through the threads I see that Peter has >>> rolled some 4.* kernels. Any suggestions as to which one I try first a

Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

2016-02-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On 06/02/16 17:01, Rick Thomas wrote: On Feb 6, 2016, at 2:16 AM, Clive Menzies wrote: On 06/02/16 07:26, Rick Thomas wrote: On Feb 5, 2016, at 2:43 PM, Clive Menzies wrote: In this context, reading back through the threads I see that Peter has rolled some 4.* kernels. Any suggestions a

Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

2016-02-06 Thread Clive Menzies
Sorry Rick if this is the third time but Icedove started screwing around and sending messages from the wrong address which isn't registered with the list. See below. On 06/02/16 17:27, Clive Menzies wrote: On 06/02/16 17:01, Rick Thomas wrote: On Feb 6, 2016, at 2:16 AM, Clive Menzies wrot

Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

2016-02-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On 06/02/16 17:01, Rick Thomas wrote: On Feb 6, 2016, at 2:16 AM, Clive Menzies wrote: On 06/02/16 07:26, Rick Thomas wrote: On Feb 5, 2016, at 2:43 PM, Clive Menzies wrote: In this context, reading back through the threads I see that Peter has rolled some 4.* kernels. Any suggestions a

Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

2016-02-06 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 6, 2016, at 9:36 AM, Clive Menzies wrote: > At present, I've just got jessie and will probably stick with it until I find > it limits functionality. I used to run sid but I'd break my system every so > often — not great for productivity :-) I'm not sure -- Peter will know -- but the 4.

Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

2016-02-06 Thread Richard Kuenz
Hello , some day ago i tried to install Stretch PPC using Installer-Alpha 4 - but it always finished off when tryxing to install Software Packages. Why is that so? Do i need to use always the latest installers (in this case Alpha-5 i guess)? Jessie installed fine , though. I bought also a Rad

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

2016-02-06 Thread Peter Saisanas
Hi Clive, Glad you got your G5 up and running! Regarding my config, currently am running 4.5.0-rc2 kernel, xfce desktop and on Debian stretch (testing) repo's. As a side note, on the testing repo's, the only package that I personally have noticed that has broken and affected me recently is

Re: Re: Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-02-06 Thread Peter Saisanas
Hi Logan, Oh well, cant say we didn't try everything! So from my recollection, currently the status of Apple OEM or FCODE flashed nVidia GPU's reported working with nouveau on PPC G5's: AGP: GeForce 5200. PCIe: GeForce 6600, GeForce 7800GT, GeForce 7800GTX, Quadro FX4500. Obviously this is wi

Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

2016-02-06 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 6, 2016, at 1:06 PM, Richard Kuenz wrote: > Hello , > > some day ago i tried to install Stretch PPC using Installer-Alpha 4 - but it > always finished off when tryxing to install Software Packages. Why is that so? > Do i need to use always the latest installers (in this case Alpha-5 i g

Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

2016-02-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On 06/02/16 20:52, Peter Saisanas wrote: Regarding my config, currently am running 4.5.0-rc2 kernel, xfce desktop and on Debian stretch (testing) repo's. As a side note, on the testing repo's, the only package that I personally have noticed that has broken and affected me recently is binutils

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

2016-02-06 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 07:52:37AM +1100, Peter Saisanas wrote: > Hi Clive, > > Glad you got your G5 up and running! > > Regarding my config, currently am running 4.5.0-rc2 kernel, xfce > desktop and on Debian stretch (testing) repo's. > > As a side note, on the testing repo's, the only package

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

2016-02-06 Thread Peter Saisanas
Hi Richard, In my opinion, the best way to install Debian would be to just install using a Jessie release. When installing, ensure you install an SSH server in addition to be able to login via another computer if you happen to have display issues (which you probably will). I believe the stre

Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

2016-02-06 Thread Peter Saisanas
It probably affects everyone trying to build a BE 64bit PPC kernel, perhaps others as well. I don't have a Power 8 running LE 64bit... But If anyone would like to donate one and pay my power bill, by all means ill give it a try :) Its a bit of a chore downgrading to binutils 2.25-5 every time

Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

2016-02-06 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 09:35:21AM +1100, Peter Saisanas wrote: > It probably affects everyone trying to build a BE 64bit PPC kernel, > perhaps others as well. Oops, I read too quickly the patch headline, the fix is not for binutils, it is for the kernel. And it is a one liner, trivial to apply b

Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

2016-02-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On 06/02/16 22:12, Clive Menzies wrote: On 06/02/16 20:52, Peter Saisanas wrote: Regarding my config, currently am running 4.5.0-rc2 kernel, xfce desktop and on Debian stretch (testing) repo's. As a side note, on the testing repo's, the only package that I personally have noticed that has bro

Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

2016-02-06 Thread Brock Wittrock
I'm in the same boat and unfortunately haven't found the time to sail my way out of it just yet. What I do know is if I boot with an old 3.18 kernel I have, everything works out okay again. I believe it was mentioned already that this could be related to the issue with binutils being used to bui

Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

2016-02-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On 07/02/16 02:32, Brock Wittrock wrote: I'm in the same boat and unfortunately haven't found the time to sail my way out of it just yet. What I do know is if I boot with an old 3.18 kernel I have, everything works out okay again. I believe it was mentioned already that this could be related to

Re: Debian 8 on Late 2005 G5, Graphics Issues

2016-02-06 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 6, 2016, at 2:11 PM, Peter Saisanas wrote: > Hi Richard, > > In my opinion, the best way to install Debian would be to just install using > a Jessie release. > When installing, ensure you install an SSH server in addition to be able to > login via another computer if you happen to have