Re: old G5 iMac with NVIDIA card
On Jun 10, 2016, at 4:39 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Programmingkid
> <programmingkidx@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Jun 10, 2016, at 3:42 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Programmingkind,
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net> wrote:
>>>> On 10.06.2016 15:45, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>>>>> Michel,
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 4:03 AM, Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net> wrote:
>>>>>> On 10.06.2016 05:44, Programmingkid wrote:
>>>>>>> I have a ATI Radeon 9600 and it has problems. Debian disappointedly
>>>>>>> booted to a command prompt after installing it. Startx also failed to
>>>>>>> load the GUI. This news about making a kernel that supports 4k pages
>>>>>>> might be a solution.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The radeon driver doesn't have trouble with non-4K page size, only the
>>>>>> nouveau driver does.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could you have a quick look at OP report, see:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825835#15
>>>>
>>>> [ 48.519] (II) RADEON(0): GPU accel disabled or not working, using shadowfb for KMS
>>>>
>>>> => check dmesg:
>>>>
>>>> [ 14.772580] [drm:r100_cp_init] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!
>>>>
>>>> Hardware acceleration requires the firmware-amd-graphics /
>>>> firmware-linux-nonfree package to be installed.
>>>
>>> Could you please re-run "/usr/share/bug/xorg/script 3>/tmp/script.log"
>>> and attached
>>> it again to this bug report, now that you installed the firmware:
>>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825835#25
>>
>> I will have to reinstall Debian. I used the kde version of the iso file. Did you want me to try this iso again, or did you have another iso in mind? If you do please send me the iso's URL. Thanks.
>
> You need to re-run this script from the environment you used the last
> time you did it. Maybe it was KDE, if so just redo it. The logs have
> been generated before you installed the firmware, I need them now that
> you installed the firmware.
>
> Thx!
> -M
The thing is I can't erase my hard drive and install Debian because I would loose all my hard work. Would anyone know a way to install Debian onto a USB flash drive and be able to boot off of it?
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