The card and monitor both worked fine under mac os x, and the color is fine in the terminal. I'm not sure what would indicate a gpu or monitor error, but they a were both working fine under os x.
Thanks for the suggestion though, I'll try a different cable.
Aidan
Have you ruled out the possibility of a hardware issue either with your monitor, video card port(s), and video cable itself? Sometimes bent or missing pins on the video cables or loose connections can cause such problems. Just wanted to throw that out there.B-rockOn Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Aidan Sciortino <2001flyingpigs14@gmail.com> wrote: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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