Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2025-03-31

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Hi Mathias,

On Fri, 2025-04-11 at 00:17 +0200, Mathias Parnaudeau wrote:
> Le 31/03/2025 à 14:48, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit :
> > The images can be found in [1]. Please test!
> 
> On the PPC64, I tested the installation on my PowerMac G5 and for the 
> first time, it went well!
> 
> Then, I have a blocking problem though, when Linux boots. I found that 
> it was related to the graphics card. In the X log, I get:
> 
> (II) LoadModule: "nouveau"
> (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nouveau
> (EE) Failed to load module "nouveau" (module does not exist, 0)
> 
> And at the end:
> 
> (II) modesetting: Driver for Modesetting Kernel Drivers: kms
> (II) FBDEV: driver for framebuffer: fbdev
> (II) modeset(0): using drv /dev/dri/card0
> (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev
> (II) Loading sub module"fbdevhw"
> 
> The fact is that I have no display.
> 
> Is there something to do to make Debian PPC to work with NVidia cards? 
> Or should I change for a Radeon one?

Can you verify that the package xserver-xorg-video-nouveau is actually installed?

Thanks,
Adrian

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