Please forgive my terse post, as I'm not very familiar with Debian, even though I play around with it occasionally.
Generally, kernel 6.16.3 causes the screen to freeze on my G5 with a GF6600 (illegible and blurry text, and other artifacts). I have the impression (I could be wrong) that the system is working because the keyboard responds to the numlock key, i.e., the LED on the keyboard lights up, but nothing happens on the screen. There's also no way to access the TTY.
This problem doesn't occur with kernel 6.12.21.
Hello,
I just uploaded freshly generated Debian Ports installation images:
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2025-08-29/
These are based on kernel 6.16.3 meaning that they contain all stability
fixes for alpha such that installing even on SMP systems should finally
just work again.
The recently posted fixes for SPARC [1][2] are not part of these images
yet, but I will try to include those patches as soon as possible.
The images still bear the version number "12.0.0" in their filenames, but
those images are based on Debian unstable and therefore "13.0.0" is more
accurate. I have therefore bumped the version to 13.0.0 for upcoming
images now.
Please test and report back.
Adrian
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250826160312.2070-1-kernel@mkarcher.dialup.fu-berlin.de/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250828130456.2335-1-kernel@mkarcher.dialup.fu-berlin.de/
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