Re: Apple PowerPC G5 7,2 No GUI NVIDIA FX 5200

I have an NVIDIA GeForce 7800GT in my PowerMac11,2. It works fine in Debian with nouveau, MATE, and Compton. I’ve tested with a GeForce 6600LE which also worked well. What issues were you having? I wonder if new nvidia cards will work now that nvidia has released an open source driver… Sent fr

Re: SSH, Telnet and FTP

FWIW, last I checked MacPorts SSH doesn’t compile on ppc anymore. Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 11, 2022, at 8:53 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > > Hello! > >> On 6/11/22 17:47, Stan Johnson wrote: >> Well, that's a good thing, some security experts might say, since those >> older ve

Working go-1.13 on ppc64 G5?

I've installed go-1.13 on my G5 (Quad 2.5) but I get an Illegal Instruction error. Is there any hope of getting this to run on my architecture or do I need to try to make things work with gnu-go? My ultimate goal is to get go-ethereum up and running.

Installing Debian on a PowerMac G5

I have a Late 2005 PowerMac G5 and I'm having some trouble installing Debian on it. I've installed debian on this machine before but this time I'm hitting some unexpected snags. I started by downloading the ppc64 iso from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/current/ppc64/iso-cd/ . I burned it t

Which installer works right now?

Hello everyone. I tried installing the ppc64 image from /cdimage/ports/current on my PowerMac G5 and it failed while installing grub. This image is dated 2020-08-18. I see there are slightly older images available, does anyone know which I should use?

Re: Workaround for installing Debian onto PowerMacs (2020-02-02 image) -- Works on 32-bit powerpc G4!

Question for Rick, which G4 are you using and what graphics card? I'm thinking about doing this on my FW800. ~ Christian Calderon On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 8:00 PM Rick Thomas wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 2, 2021, at 4:22 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hello! > >