Re: old G5 iMac with NVIDIA card

[G 3 <programmingkidx@gmail.com>]

I gave up on Debian so I don't have it installed anymore. But if you mean what I have for Ubuntu Mate, I don't know. Maybe someone could send me a command to execute and I can email the results back to the list.

On Jun 8, 2016, at 8:03 PM, Steven Grunza wrote:

What video driver do you use?

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 6:56 PM, Programmingkid <programmingkidx@gmail.com> wrote:

On Jun 8, 2016, at 12:13 PM, 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?
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> The last time I tried it had numerous problems (no graphics, kernel panics, etc).
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> lsusb reports the video card as:
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>  NVIDIA Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX Go5200]  (rev a1)
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> 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.
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> - Steven G.

Debian is still broken when it comes to iMac G5 compatibility. My iMac G5 booted to a command prompt after installing Debian. I think the only fix is to move on to a different distribution like Ubuntu Mate 15.10. It works well on my iMac G5.

Just to note, my iMac G5 has a ATI Radeon 9600 in it, so your issues might be different from mine.