Re: PPC64/Jessie/TrustyTahr

Richard,

Thanks for the additional info. I'm assuming you are using the stock kernel that comes with Jessie? If so, you'll need to either a) re-build your own kernel that that uses 4K page sizes and has MSI interrupts disabled b) download the kernel image provided by Peter Saisanas that has this done for you already . More information on these bugs can be found here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2015/06/msg00054.html.

A bug report has been filed for both issues.

Bug#790690: linux-image-3.16.0-4-powerpc64: powerpc64 & 64Kb kernel pagesize not working with nouveau

Bug#790694: linux-image-3.16.0-4-powerpc64: nouveau driver and msi interrupts

Here is a link to that kernel image.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8pqd5Ots1vffmY5ZnpGUDg4UGNnVFk2M05tQUtEUUkwUmhmQWdLMWpfZGVraDIxSFltb1k

The only other way "around" this with the stock kernel is to disabled acceleration on the card by passing in nouveau.noaccel=1 at the yaboot prompt.

Thanks,

Brock

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Richard Kuenz <csae2608@uibk.ac.at> wrote:

yes, it is dual g5 2 ghz and graphics is nvidia geforce 6600LE. thank you very much for considering this.

richie

On 26.08.15 19:20, Brock Wittrock wrote:

Hi Richard,

The question almost everybody is going to ask is what kind of graphics
card do you have in your G5? Is it dual headed?

Brock

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 11:39 AM, richard kuenz <csae2608@uibk.ac.at
<mailto:csae2608@uibk.ac.at>> wrote:

Hello ,

i would like to use my newly acquired Powermac G5 with Linux PPC for
Kodi/XBMC.

With Wheezy i had success installing and configuring sound with the
help of this list; so that was really nice.

but XBMC did not run as hoped as there were quite some broken
dependencies; so i ended up upgrading to jessie;

but after upgrading, i get a messed up screen at StartX and cannot
login.

same happened with ubuntu - which was very loud when installed from
a mini.iso of 12.04 from 2010 - but after upgrading to 14.04 LTS 3
offered the same panorama - messed up graphic screen where the
login-window used to be.

i am able with ALT+CTRL+f1 to enter terminal.

what can i do here?

thanks

richard

Re: PPC64/Jessie/TrustyTahr - GraphicFailure