Thanks,
I have installed the kernel as suggested above, and when I run uname -a it returns that the kernel is running, but the graphical errors persist. Do I need to do something more? I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to graphics, so I may have just gotten it wrong.
Thanks for the help
Aidan Sciortino
On Tue, Dec 29, 2015, 11:09 PM Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> wrote:Hi Aidan,
Welcome to the Debian-on-G5-Macs club!
Peter Saisanas has a patched kernel that fixes this problem.
Check out this discussion in the mail archives:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2015/11/msg00006.html
To cut to the chase,
1) download the two ".deb" files at this URL:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8pqd5Ots1vfaDdaOGJndzU2SlE&usp=sharing&tid=0B8pqd5Ots1vfT2puX09CYjEwcFk
do the following steps as root
2) do a "dpkg -i" on each of these ".deb" files.
3) do "update-initramfs -u"
4) Modify your "/etc/yaboot.conf" file to add a stanza pointing to the
new kernel and initrd files in /boot
5) run "ybin"
6) reboot and select the new yaboot option you created in step 4
You should be good to go
I've CC-ed Peter in case he sees anything I've missed here...
Rick
On 12/29/2015 3:27 PM, Aidan Sciortino wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've successfully gotten Debian 8 stable up and running on my powermac
> g5, but am struggling to get a gui configured. The computer has an
> Nvidia fx 5200 graphics card, and I'm using the nouveau driver. The
> colors are extremely messed up, and I'm thinking it's a problem with
> nouveau. Has anyone else had this problem before? Does anyone know of
> a solution?
>
> Thanks
>
> Aidan
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