Re: iMac G5.

[Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@debian.org>]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 07:06:33PM -0500, Matt Gracie wrote:
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> I installed Debian Sid on an iMac G5 today, one of the second generation
> 20' models (with a Radeon, without a camera). Whenever the machine loads
> X, the screen goes black and the machine locks up cold. It's not even
> accessible over the network and current SSH sessions stop responding.
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> Is this a known issue?
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> Additionally, I was hoping to run MOL on this box for the rare occasions
> that I need to use OS X specific applications. I notice that all of the
> modules in unstable are marked as 32-bits only; so do I have to compile
> my own kernel for a G5 machine?

MOL does currently not support PPC64. See:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1580285&group_id=179078&atid=887704

It might be possible (as in it probably is, but I never tested it) to run MOL 
with a 32bit kernel on your machine.

Gaudenz

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