Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

On May 8, 2016, at 11:56 PM, Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org> wrote:

> If you want to stick with your actual nvidia graphics cards (until the
> bug is fixed upstream in nouveau), you are required to rebuild your
> kernel and change the setting for PPC_64K_PAGES.
> 
> refs:
> https://wiki.debian.org/HowToRebuildAnOfficialDebianKernelPackage
> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ch08s06.html.en
> https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.kernel-compilation.html

Thanks Mathieu!

And _special_ thanks for the links to docs on compiling my own kernel.

When I get some time to experiment, I’ll try doing that.  Not promising when, though!  )-:

Rick