Re: G5 Video issue

[Jeroen Diederen <jjhdiederen@zonnet.nl>]

Hi all,

I tested Scott´s kernel image on my iMac G5 and it did indeed not solve 
the nouveau issues.
Scott± thanks for sharing your newly built image!

Regards,
Jeroen


> Admittedly I am a kernel compilation newbie however this may not be
> the only issue.  After changing the page size and recompiling the
> kernel:
>
>
> scott@debian-10-DG5:~$ uname -a
> Linux debian-10-DG5 5.6.14 #1 SMP Mon Jun 15 18:21:13 CDT 2020 ppc64 
> GNU/Linux
> scott@debian-10-DG5:~$ getconf PAGESIZE
> 4096
>
> [   23.626150] u3msi: allocated virq 0x20 (hw 0x8) addr 0xfee00000
> [   23.682413] u3msi: allocated virq 0x21 (hw 0x9) addr 0xfee00000
> [   25.343462] nouveau 0000:0a:00.0: DRM: 0x14CC: Parsing digital
> output script table
> [   25.413056] nouveau 0000:0a:00.0: DRM: 0x14CC: Parsing digital
> output script table
> [   26.899243] tg3 0001:05:04.1 enP1p5s4f1: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, 
> full duplex
> [   26.899248] tg3 0001:05:04.1 enP1p5s4f1: Flow control is on for TX
> and on for RX
> [   26.899273] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): enP1p5s4f1: link becomes 
> ready
> [   30.638637] fuse: init (API version 7.31)
> [ 2895.662905] nouveau 0000:0a:00.0: gr: intr 00100000 [ERROR] nsource
> 00000002 [DATA_ERROR] nstatus 02000000 [BAD_ARGUMENT] ch 1 [000d3000
> Xorg[470]] subc 7 class 4097 mthd 0208 data 02000248
> [ 2975.214714] nouveau 0000:0a:00.0: gr: intr 00100000 [ERROR] nsource
> 00000002 [DATA_ERROR] nstatus 02000000 [BAD_ARGUMENT] ch 1 [000d3000
> Xorg[470]] subc 7 class 4097 mthd 0208 data 02000248
> [ 2979.828455] nouveau 0000:0a:00.0: gr: intr 00100000 [ERROR] nsource
> 00000002 [DATA_ERROR] nstatus 02000000 [BAD_ARGUMENT] ch 1 [000d3000
> Xorg[470]] subc 7 class 4097 mthd 0208 data 02000248
>
> The display is still quite problematic.
>
> Scott Thompson