Re: Success on an iBook G4 - X not working out of the box
Hi Jeroen!
On 4/29/20 8:57 AM, Jeroen Diederen wrote:
> First of all I want to thank Adrian Glaubitz for the fantastic job he did.
You're welcome and thanks for the appreciation. It does consume a lot of time
and efforts, so I'm glad my work is appreciated.
And since there is still so much to do, I'm always looking for contributors,
even if it's just filing a bug upstream which already helps a lot.
For example, ldb is failing its testsuite on powerpc (32-bit) and someone
needs to report a bug upstream. Unfortunately, it's not easy to get an
account for the Samba bug tracker :(.
> Debian now installs without major obstacles on this old iBook (I used the powerpc
> image of 19.4.2020). The only thing that I found so far is that X does not work
> out of the box. My iBook G4 has an ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 card. I had to manually
> install firmware-amd-graphics, xorg and xserver-xorg-video-all to make it work. LXDE
> works like it should now.
Did you actually enable LXDE from the task selection during installation? When I tested
the image on my G4, I selected MATE and it installed fine. I did have to install the
firmware though but nothing else.
The firmware issue is being worked on but I cannot resolve it until the FTP admin
for Debian Ports enables syncing of the "contrib" and "non-free" sections from
the main Debian FTP archives.
Adrian
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