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Bug#783381: upgrade from wheezy to jessie on a PowerMac G4 Silver/Confirmation



On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 22:56 +0200, Alois Zoitl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> thanks. Looks like there is no Gnome for non Intel platforms. With
> XFCE and lightdm I got graphics partly working. Still rad and blue is
> exchanged. 
[...]

GNOME Shell requires either 3D accelerated graphics or 'llvmpipe' which
currently only works on x86.  For PowerMacs with an ATI Radeon GPU, the
firmware-nonfree package is needed.

Ben.

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