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Wheezy for my experience is the only one distro who worked without problems on Quad G5 with nvidia board
the only tip i can say put the linux as the first hd slot a on G5 Quad for the remaining all was working on an 7800gtx flashed too. on nvidia 6600 al was good. radeon was gave problems but you need to boot the system with kernel appends... like is radeon.agpmode=-1 or radeon.modeset=1 or video=radeonfb:on What im facing today is with all distros and all flawors is the bug of xorg with dual gfx boards from jessie to sid and all ubuntu flawors ... this was my last post on ubuntu forums about this bug effected all the PPC world i think because it is in the X5000 too. What i discovered : if i set radeon.modeset=0 nouveau.modeset=1 xorg turn on the radeon driver and turn off the nouveau.... but because the radeon driver is off by the kernel the result is the black screen. same is if i set radeon.modeset=1 nouveau.modeset=0 setting the two boards as 1 .... i have te fbdev working on radeon (?) but xorg dont find video boards. if i set the two as 0 nothing woking but xorg --configure set the new xorg with the two video boards.... This bug was present since 15.0 of (X) (L) (mate)ubuntu ... and now one had been fixed it ... Ciao Luigi Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 20:36:27 -0500 Subject: Re: Wheezy From: brockwittrock@gmail.com To: steven.grunza@gmail.com CC: risto.suominen@gmail.com; debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org So the initial install of Wheezy went okay? Do you mean the crash happened while updating your /etc/yaboot.conf file with the new initrd info? Can you boot into rescue mode off of the installer and mount your /boot and update things accordingly? If you'd like, we can try and work through the Jessie install again as well. I was hoping to reply sooner but am just getting to it now. Brock On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 7:39 PM, Steven Grunza <steven.grunza@gmail.com> wrote:
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