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| 00:44.32 | apostle2 | I installed Debian Wheezy on my Power Mac G5. |
| 00:44.36 | apostle2 | Screen is black |
| 00:44.52 | apostle2 | my video card is GeForce FX 5200 Ultra |
| 00:45.09 | apostle2 | I am able to SSH into the Power Mac G5. |
| 00:45.43 | apostle2 | Nvidia does not have a binary for this Video card that works for this PPC machine. |
| 00:45.53 | apostle2 | Can someone guide me on how to fix this? |
| 03:18.16 | peterrooney | apostle2: have you tried appending "video=ofonly" to the boot command? |
| 03:18.39 | apostle2 | no |
| 03:18.45 | apostle2 | I removed xorg |
| 03:18.52 | apostle2 | and the terminal does not even come up |
| 03:18.56 | apostle2 | x is not even running |
| 03:19.07 | apostle2 | I can still ssh into the machine |
| 03:19.08 | apostle2 | ? |
| 03:23.34 | peterrooney | you must edit yaboot.conf via your ssh connection, then. IIRC, the syntax is ------ append="video=ofonly" ----- (without dashes) in one of your 'image=....' sections |
| 03:27.18 | apostle2 | do I need the quotations? |
| 03:28.08 | apostle2 | sorry |
| 03:28.10 | apostle2 | I got it |
| 03:28.11 | apostle2 | one sec |
| 03:28.44 | apostle2 | rebooting now |
| 03:33.03 | apostle2 | http://paste.debian.net/84850/ |
| 03:33.05 | apostle2 | no change |
| 03:34.45 | apostle2 | http://paste.debian.net/84851/ |
| 03:34.51 | apostle2 | thats my yaboot file |
| 03:48.28 | pahartik | apostle2: Did you remember to "sudo ybin -v" after editing file? |
| 03:50.23 | apostle2 | I did not |
| 03:50.32 | apostle2 | I blacklisted nouveau |
| 03:50.38 | apostle2 | it was killing the console from coming up |
| 03:50.48 | apostle2 | now the console us up |
| 03:50.56 | apostle2 | console is up |
| 03:50.57 | apostle2 | brb |
| 03:52.04 | pahartik | apostle2: Oh, that is good... And it is probably 'append="video=ofonly"' |
| 03:54.55 | pahartik | apostle2: It was good idea to "blacklist nouveau"... |
| 04:38.17 | apostle2 | I will try this now |
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| 14:06.08 | apostle2 | Would it be worth to install Debian Squeeze with the Mac Pro G5 with this Nvidia card? |
| 14:20.27 | pahartik | apostle2: "Mac Pro G5" does not exist |
| 14:59.40 | apostle2 | what |
| 14:59.46 | apostle2 | I have it in front of me |
| 15:47.06 | Solak | hmm, odd... I still get a lockup at boot after install (and a screen without letters, only some dots at the lines). |
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| 18:34.46 | Solak | ok, I'm out of options... Debian 7 won't install on my powerbook g4 :-( |
| 18:47.15 | apostle2 | Solak, i'm having problems on the G5 |
| 18:47.23 | apostle2 | with Debian |
| 18:47.36 | apostle2 | I just downloaded yellow dog and going to see if it works |
| 18:48.08 | apostle2 | Solak, what is the type of Video card |
| 20:07.09 | Solak | apostle2: not sure :( What I noticed was that the boot locked at something with i2c. |
| 20:14.22 | Solak | apostle2: it's a PowerBook G4 867 12" (2003) |
| 20:15.45 | Solak | according to the wiki: NVIDIA GeForce4 Go 420 |
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| 20:33.23 | apostle2 | Solak, I have had nothing but problems with Wheezy on the Mac Pro G5. |
| 20:33.39 | apostle2 | Solak, I tested it with Yellow Dog and its working. |
| 20:33.52 | apostle2 | Solak, the driver is nv but I did not see this driver in Debian |
| 20:34.14 | apostle2 | Solak, I am going to test with Linux Mint which is based on Debian and they say they have it working with Nvidia Drivers |
| 20:47.26 | Solak | apostle2: Debian 6 had nv and that worked fine on my powerbook. |
| 20:48.04 | Solak | apostle2: my goal is pure open source, I'm not sure what YDL and Mint support...? |
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| 23:04.40 | pahartik | apostle2: "Mac Pro" refers to x86 hardware, "G5" refers to POWER4 hardware |
| 23:25.05 | apostle2 | pahartik, no your dead wrong |
| 23:25.29 | apostle2 | pahartik, |
| 23:25.35 | apostle2 | Pro Mac sorry |
| 23:25.37 | apostle2 | you are right |
| 23:26.10 | apostle2 | I have a Power Mac G5 with PPC processor |
| 23:30.50 | pahartik | apostle2: Acknowledged |
| 23:46.11 | apostle2 | I installed Yellow Dog 6.2 and it booted |
| 23:46.14 | apostle2 | using the nv driver |
| 23:46.21 | apostle2 | I tried with Mint PPC 11 |
| 23:46.28 | apostle2 | and screen goes black |
| 23:46.29 | apostle2 | arg |
| 23:46.47 | apostle2 | its this noveau driver and wheeyz and mint is based on debian wheezy |