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

2016-05-09 Thread Bertrand Dekoninck
the card : the dedicated xorg option (Option "ReverseDDC") didn't work for me. So I was forced to randomly and manually switch between DVI-0 and DVI-1 output. Hope this helps, Bertrand Dekoninck

Re: how to write a pipe "|" ?

2016-11-01 Thread Bertrand Dekoninck
On 2016-11-01 18:09:53 +0100 Klaus Becker wrote: Hi, all is in the title. I could not find neither on the ibook G4 keybord nor on the web. bye Klaus With a french mac layout (azerty) it 's alt + shift + l. Note that on linux and on my french mac keyboard, the "alt" key is mapped on the

Re: Newbie trying to install Debian PPC into an old 15" PowerBook G4...

2017-03-02 Thread Bertrand Dekoninck
ternatively, linux’s parted utility can resize hfs+ filesystems if they are not journaled. You can use an old ubuntu ppc live cd to do this. That’s what i did when I install linux on ppc first. See : https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2211127 <https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2211127> Hope this helps. Bertrand Dekoninck

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

2018-10-03 Thread bertrand . dekoninck
On 2018-10-03 08:36:46 +0200 Gabriel Paubert wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 03:06:17PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >> Rick Thomas composed on 2016-05-02 15:49 (UTC-0700): > >>> So, in the interest of getting something that works without tinkering: > >>> Is there a hardware solution? Is there a

Missing packages for Jessie. Incomplete install

2019-03-24 Thread Bertrand Dekoninck
ary which isn't available for powerpc. Is it related ? Isn't Jessie not installable anymore ? And if not, would a dualboot with OSX be possible with buster and grub ? Which cd image would work ? Thanks, Bertrand Dekoninck

Re: Missing packages for Jessie. Incomplete install

2019-03-24 Thread Bertrand Dekoninck
t with OSX ? Greetings, Bertrand Le 24/03/2019 à 08:53, Christian Marillat a écrit : On 24 mars 2019 08:42, Bertrand Dekoninck wrote: Hi, Hi, I'm trying since yesterday to reinstall a stable debian system on powerbook G4 with a netinstall cd. I did it smoothly several months ago. I initiall

Re: Missing packages for Jessie. Incomplete install

2019-03-24 Thread Bertrand Dekoninck
Le 24/03/2019 à 09:27, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit : On 3/24/19 8:42 AM, Bertrand Dekoninck wrote: And if not, would a dualboot with OSX be possible with buster and grub ? Which cd image would work ? I don't know whether GRUB can boot OSX, but in any case, GRUB support is wo

Re: Missing packages for Jessie. Incomplete install

2019-03-24 Thread Bertrand Dekoninck
Le 24/03/2019 à 08:53, Christian Marillat a écrit : On 24 mars 2019 08:42, Bertrand Dekoninck wrote: Several packages are now missing for a complete install. When I tried to install the mate desktop tasksel, a lot of packages were missing. See https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel

Re: Best way too install Debian Jessie on powerpc/powerpc64 ?

2019-04-05 Thread Bertrand Dekoninck
On 05/04/2019 07:11, aggaz wrote: If you want to install Jessie, you can use the old installation CD. Repositories from Debian Archive can be used to install / keep Jessie and other old versions. You can find isos here : https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/8.11.0/powerpc/iso-

Re: PowerBook X11 mouse issues

2019-07-04 Thread Bertrand Dekoninck
On 2019-07-05 00:02:47 +0200 Riccardo Mottola wrote: Hi! to my big surprise... startx... works at the first attempt! However, the mouse just jumps around. Also attaching an external mouse doesn't help, it continues jumping. with some trickery I am able to "quit" and get back to console, I

Re: Xorg non starting (was : Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-11-22)

2019-12-23 Thread Bertrand Dekoninck
A little update on this topic. See below. • I had to put a second screen on my graphic card (Radeon 9800 Pro) because after some messages on the screen, they disappeared and left me with a black screen. With two screens, I could see the machine boot on the first screen (ADC connector) and the

Re: Xorg non starting (was : Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-11-22)

2019-12-24 Thread Bertrand Dekoninck
More progress again > Le 23 déc. 2019 à 12:14, Bertrand Dekoninck a > écrit : > >> • Last : X fails to load. At the end of the boot, the system left me with a >> big black screen and a little « —« cursor at the top left of the screen. >> display-manager.servic

Re: Xorg non starting (was : Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-11-22)

2019-12-24 Thread bertrand . dekoninck
Envoyé de mon iPhone > Le 24 déc. 2019 à 20:42, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > a écrit : > > Hi! Hi! Tanks for your answer. > >> On 12/24/19 2:04 PM, Bertrand Dekoninck wrote: >> I’ve installed firmware-linux-nonfree_0.43 from Jessie > > You can just add th

Re: Xorg non starting (was : Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-11-22)

2019-12-24 Thread Bertrand Dekoninck
On 24/12/2019 22:39, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 12/24/19 10:15 PM, bertrand.dekoni...@gmail.com wrote: How did you do that. umount /dev/sda2 fsck.hfs /dev/sda2 And then I had got an error. What error did you get? FWIW, the hfsprogs package also needs to be updated to a newer upstream

Re: R: Radeon forced to pci-mode.

2019-12-27 Thread Bertrand Dekoninck
Thunderbird seems buggy on sid for me. The following answer is incomplete. x Le 27/12/2019 à 18:33, Bertrand a écrit : On 27/12/2019 11:50, luigi burdo wrote: This because you are using the fbdev and not the hw acceleration. The issue is on the radeon firmware and kernel not on debian. On my

Re: PPC64: G5 & 4k/64k page size (was: Re: Call for report - G5/PPC970 status)

2020-01-05 Thread Bertrand Dekoninck
> Le 14 déc. 2019 à 10:32, Jeroen Diederen a écrit : > > on my iMac iSight: > > > grep CONFIG_PPC.*PAGE config-5.3.0-3-powerpc64 > # CONFIG_PPC_4K_PAGES is not set > CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES=y > CONFIG_PPC_PAGE_SHIFT=16 > # CONFIG_PPC_SUBPAGE_PROT is not set > > I can't give you info about the

How to track sudden poweroff ?

2020-01-26 Thread Bertrand Dekoninck
Hi ! Since I've installed ppc64 sid on powermac 7,3 G5, I encounter sudden shutdowns. These can happen very often if I use the machine, but they also happen when I leave it idle. It's a very strong reason not to use sid on this computer. They aren't regular shutdowns and happen instantly, the

Re: How to track sudden poweroff ?

2020-01-26 Thread Bertrand Dekoninck
It may be a hardware overheating issue. Did you install windfarm_core and windfarm_fcu_controls to control the fans? -Stan Johnson I've enabled them since my upgrade to sid at the end of December but I mentioned an other issue here yesterday : https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/202

Re: How to track sudden poweroff ?

2020-01-26 Thread Bertrand Dekoninck
>> > > I would definitely check the water cooler. After all these years, it can > leak. PowerMac7.3 has water-cooling. > > https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/faq/powermac-g5-liquid-cooling-info-leaks-issues.html Not mine : it’s a 2.O ghz model, air-cooled. Bertrand

Re: How to track sudden poweroff ?

2020-01-30 Thread Bertrand Dekoninck
> Le 27 janv. 2020 à 04:15, Stan Johnson a écrit : > > > After adding these windfarm options to my kernel .config file and > re-compiling the kernel, the unexpected shutdowns have stopped: > > (kernel: 5.2.9, compiler: gcc (Debian 9.2.1-4) 9.2.1 20190821) > > CONFIG_WINDFARM=y > CONFIG_WINDFA

Boot failure since upgrade

2021-01-25 Thread Bertrand Dekoninck
Hi ! I've upgraded my sid install on Powermac G5 yesterday (the last time was weeks ago). I wasn't smart enough to survey all the upgrade, which seemed to have run fine. But now, my systems fails to boot into linux. At startup, I've got a little Finder-with-question-mark icon (no bootable

Powermac G5 : thermal support

2015-02-11 Thread Bertrand Dekoninck
0 rpm. - Linux : 50°C or even 55°C (more than 120°F) and a drive fan stuck at 300 rpm. It find these temperatures under linux a bit too warm. Is this a bug ? Can I tweak the fan speed by myself or does it need some kernel debbugging ? Best regards, Bertrand Dekoninck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Powermac G5 : thermal support

2015-02-19 Thread Bertrand Dekoninck
l and should really not be a problem. I hope so. I yet have to find how to report this to the "Bug#713943: Not fixed for me", on Debian Bug Tracking System. This bug is marked as closed, but it isn't. Best regards, Bertrand Dekoninck Le 11/02/2015 10:32, Bertrand Dekoninck a