On 06/02/16 17:01, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Feb 6, 2016, at 2:16 AM, Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk> wrote:On 06/02/16 07:26, Rick Thomas wrote:On Feb 5, 2016, at 2:43 PM, Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk> wrote:In this context, reading back through the threads I see that Peter has rolled some 4.* kernels. Any suggestions as to which one I try first and any particular messages in the thread I should pay attention to?If your G5 is a "PowerMac11,2" like mine, then Peter's "4.4.0-rc7-powerpc64" kernel works well for me with the "VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600 LE] (rev a2)" graphics card.Thanks Rick That is the machine exactly :-) Are you running sid or jessie?Stretch. In the sources.list, I have jessie, jessie/updates, jessie-updates, jessie-backports, and stretch repositories; all with main, non-free, and contrib activated.
ThanksAt present, I've just got jessie and will probably stick with it until I find it limits functionality. I used to run sid but I'd break my system every so often - not great for productivity :-)
Having got X and xfce working, I've now added a second DVI monitor but it seems to have knocked out the original Mac monitor.
Both xfce4 settings and xrandr recognise there are 2 monitors but the Apple (DVI-I-2) monitor doesn't receive signal
clive@silvermachine:~$ xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 4096 x 4096DVI-I-1 connected 1280x1024+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 338mm x 270mm
1280x1024 60.02*+ 1152x864 75.00 1024x768 85.00 75.08 60.00 832x624 74.55 800x600 85.06 75.00 60.32 640x480 85.01 75.00 60.00 720x400 70.08DVI-I-2 connected 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 433mm x 270mm
1680x1050 59.88*+ trying to force it with xrandr makes no differenceclive@silvermachine:~$ xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --mode 1280x1024 --output DVI-I-2 --mode 1680x1050 --right-of DVI-I-1
Peter, is there a specific kernel parameter required? Regards Clive