Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2025-03-31
Hello,
On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:48:57 +0200
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> I have just created updated installation images for Debian Ports.
Thank you very much for your hard work on Debian Ports and PowerPC
support.
> With these images, the issue with the console not working on powerpc
> and ppc64 has finally been fixed such that an installation should work
> normally. At least a very quick test on QEMU with an emulated
> PowerMac G5 worked fine.
I can confirm that installation worked perfectly on my G5 (with
ISO burned to CD). I selected the MATE desktop environment and this
all installed correctly with my system booting straight into lightdm
login without any Xorg problems. The modesetting driver is used because
nouveau is not installed by default. Adding it results in a problem
described before [1]. In this state, attempting to restart lightdm
produces a corrupted picture. I also see these messages:
nouveau 0000:f0:10.0: Xorg[753]: reloc wait_idle failed: -16
nouveau 0000:f0:10.0: Xorg[753]: reloc apply: -16
I also inconsistently saw "GPU is missing power, check its power
cables. Boot with nouveau.config=NvPowerChecks=0 to disable" which
prevented any display from working. Power is of course only from the AGP
Pro slot for this machine. Overall, I'd say leaving out nouveau by
default is the right idea, as it is not in a working state.
Default installed programs work (e.g. libreoffice), with the exception
of the default browser firefox. This gives the usual segmentation
fault. I also tried installing the ESR version without success.
Konqueror can also be installed, but it too fails. For reference, I was
able to get a working browser by following these instructions [1].
Audio was not working. There was no sound regardless of volume level in
the sound control GUI. I was able to fix this by going into alsamixer
and and setting PCM to 50, as it was initially set to 0.
Overall performance seems to be better than the last time I did a fresh
installation. Although I'm now using a PCI-X G5 with the Nvidia FX 5200,
versus a PCI G5 with an ATI Radeon 9600. Previously I saw messages
about AGP running in PCI mode, which may have caused GUI slowness.
James
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2025/04/msg00026.html
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2023/11/msg00013.html
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