Re: old G5 iMac with NVIDIA card
On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 12:13:35PM -0400, Steven Grunza wrote:
> Does anyone know if the nouveau driver will work with an old G5 PowerPC and
> the GeForce FX G05200 it originally used?
>
> The last time I tried it had numerous problems (no graphics, kernel panics,
> etc).
>
> lsusb reports the video card as:
>
> NVIDIA Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX Go5200] (rev a1)
>
>
> Various versions of jessie failed in various ways. Does Stretch have a
> different version of the nouveau driver? Since the machine is PowerPC I
> can't use the NVIDIA driver.
my understanding is that it does NOT work with a 64bit kernel with a
page size other than 4K, which means the kernel currently in Debian does
not work. Someone has posted a link on the list to a kernel built with
4K pages that is supposed to work.
I think that is the current state of things.
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Len Sorensen
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