iMac G5 "windfarm"

2020-12-30 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, it is my first time I run linux on an iMac G5 and have some doubts about its cooling. I noticed that while installing Debian, the fan spins at full speed and it really deserves the term "windfarm", it is as loud as a vacuum cleaner. Once Linux is fully installed, the system runs quiet w

Re: iMac G5 "windfarm"

2020-12-30 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi Riccardo, On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 9:57 AM Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > Hi, > > it is my first time I run linux on an iMac G5 and have some doubts about > its cooling. There was a regression at some point, did you check: * https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2020/03/msg00035.html What's y

G5 compilation speed vs G4

2020-12-30 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, now that the iMac G5 is up and running, I did run the same build task as on my iBook G4 and PowerBook G4, where I already found some differences in speed, given a similar CPU and setup - We attribtuted them to the quite much faster disk in the iBook. Now comes the G5 (PPC970fx) which run

Re: iMac G5 "windfarm"

2020-12-30 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Mathieu, On 12/30/20 10:22 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: There was a regression at some point, did you check: *https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2020/03/msg00035.html What's your kernel version ? Right now, it apparently is an older version: Linux PPC970FX 4.16.0-1-powerpc64 #1 SM

firmware - nonfree repository

2020-12-30 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, I just noticed I have this issue seen in dmesg: [   21.449826] radeon :04:00.0: firmware: failed to load radeon/R300_cp.bin (-2) [   21.449835] radeon :04:00.0: Direct firmware load for radeon/R300_cp.bin failed with error -2 [   21.450016] [drm:.r100_cp_init [radeon]] *ERROR* Fa

Re: firmware - nonfree repository

2020-12-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/31/20 12:29 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > I bet I simply miss the ATI firmware. Is this because I miss non-free > software? or instead architecture-shared repositories? > > Right now, I have configured what Adrian suggested in a mail a couple of > months ago: You need to add this line:

Re: iMac G5 "windfarm"

2020-12-30 Thread Cameron MacPherson
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 2:55 PM Riccardo Mottola wrote: > But yaboot doesn't find it, so I have to boot "old". Maybe this is part > of the issue. > make sure you run ybin -v after making changes cam

Re: iMac G5 "windfarm"

2020-12-30 Thread Rick Thomas
You have vmlinux -> vmlinux-5.9.0-5-powerpc64 But there is no actual file named "vmlinux-5.9.0-5-powerpc64" in the directory. Maybe that's your problem? Rick On Wed, Dec 30, 2020, at 2:55 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi Mathieu, > > > On 12/30/20 10:22 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > Ther