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| 01:20.37 | donofrio | hey all do we have a working solution for video issues on mac mini and powerbook g4's for jessie 8? |
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| 02:52.18 | bikerr | donofrio, is it ati radeon? |
| 02:52.46 | bikerr | im hopeful the fix is in for linux 4.5 |
| 02:53.37 | bikerr | got an error compiling the latest git just now tho |
| 03:01.01 | donofrio | yes I believe they are all ati |
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| 03:04.06 | bikerr | same problem im facing with the powerbook then , i did manage to regain some acceleration with a dirty patch to mesa written by a guy at amd about half a year ago, but it never made it upstream and the system crashed on high loads, apart from that you can try radeon.agpmode=-1 in yaboot.conf "append="video=offb:off video=radeonfb:off radeon.agpmode=-1" |
| 03:04.27 | bikerr | that made things work for earlier kernels, but i lost that on 4.3.3 |
| 04:05.45 | donofrio | ok I'll try that tomorrow....looking forward to beathing life back into these awesome boxes, also have two g5's and a lampshade I've be joyful to be able to use again. |
| 04:07.00 | bikerr | good luck, the g5's are in good shape still, the amdgpu driver can be used |
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| 04:23.40 | ShapeShifter499 | bikerr: I was reading up on the log.... usb booting worked here |
| 04:24.20 | bikerr | hum , ab |
| 04:24.29 | bikerr | any* clue what could be the problem ? |
| 04:25.31 | ShapeShifter499 | I just ran dd if=/path/to/debian-ppc.iso of=/dev/sdXy On the PowerBook G4 TI I loaded into Open Firmware and ran "boot usb1@disk1:2\yaboot" |
| 04:26.05 | ShapeShifter499 | oops I messed up the command |
| 04:26.37 | ShapeShifter499 | usb1/disk@1:2,\\yaboot |
| 04:26.57 | ShapeShifter499 | bikerr: I know unhelpful but all as I can say it worked for me |
| 04:29.17 | ShapeShifter499 | bikerr: I wonder if he pointed to the correct usb device |
| 04:29.33 | ShapeShifter499 | my powerbook g4 has usb0 and usb1 in open firmware |
| 04:29.44 | bikerr | maybe not, could be he tried usb0 and the plug was in 1 |
| 04:30.01 | bikerr | also why one has to be quite familiar with OF |
| 04:30.18 | bikerr | tbh i cant remember shit from one time to another :D |
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| 04:46.07 | ShapeShifter499 | bikerr: I wanted to ask, does adding "video=radeonfb:off" to the boot help much? I have the radeon and the other video line in my yaboot but not that one |
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| 05:12.58 | bikerr | ShapeShifter499, well, the drmfb should kick in when the module is loaded, you dont want anything trying to claim the memory apart from the accelerated drm driver if that works , you could probably get away with less , but |
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| 06:42.58 | bikerr | https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=55ce625fc5e3a87e46a14c2cb062a3579f79b7e0 this might fix the radeon issues |
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| 19:01.16 | donofrio | bikerr: did you try on jessie 8? |
| 19:02.41 | bikerr | jessie has been a shit hole since day one on this setup... did not expect to loose accel , so it's seen less and less use |
| 19:02.48 | bikerr | still compiling a kernel.. |
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| 21:33.28 | saptech_ | hello all |
| 21:33.46 | saptech_ | is anybody using ubuntu mate ppc version? |
| 23:36.38 | donofrio | what is best distro for powerpc (guessing straight up debian but figured I'd inquire) |
| 23:38.54 | bikerr | got r300 working , ish, again with mesa 10.0.4, and radeon.agpmode=-1 and following this http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2274612&page=8&p=13429698#post13429698 but using r300 instead of r600 ofc |
| 23:39.06 | bikerr | im about to go netbsd |
| 23:39.20 | donofrio | cool need that |
| 23:39.22 | bikerr | i've had it with this bug , had 3000 fps with squeeze |
| 23:39.29 | donofrio | that is my jam chip |
| 23:39.50 | donofrio | its in both powerbook and mac mini's ppc |
| 23:40.15 | bikerr | ought not persist over so many years \ |
| 23:40.23 | bikerr | think i first encountered it in 2013 |
| 23:40.55 | donofrio | yah 7 worked ok, I mean didn't get accel just could at least get x up but with debian 8 its not even startin x |
| 23:41.12 | bikerr | got accel with some funky options |
| 23:41.21 | bikerr | worked quite well |
| 23:41.28 | bikerr | other parts of the system has regressed as well |
| 23:41.45 | donofrio | if you got url's I'd love to learn what was needed and how to get a scripted version lol |
| 23:41.58 | bikerr | to what? :D |
| 23:42.05 | donofrio | a working setup lol |
| 23:42.30 | donofrio | no big rush just trying to find a setup that just works, or is a few apt-get's away from gold ;) |
| 23:43.07 | bikerr | hah, i googled a lot around the squeeze days to get it working, basically the same options , radeon.modeset=1 and some xorg.conf tweaking i think |
| 23:43.28 | donofrio | k tnx |
| 23:43.30 | bikerr | but 7 got outdated quickly, deps made me require testing |
| 23:43.44 | donofrio | yah hence 8 wanting or is 8.5 or 9 out yet? |
| 23:44.06 | bikerr | im on testing, problem is still there, but i've now got a few fps at least |
| 23:44.28 | bikerr | acceleration is working, but sticking the ati in pci mode is not a good option |
| 23:44.53 | bikerr | certainly far from optimal |
| 23:45.07 | bikerr | running with no xorg and getting 900 fps in glxgears |
| 23:46.03 | bikerr | simply following this http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2274612&page=8&p=13429698#post13429698 and adding append="video=offb:off video=radeonfb:off radeon.agpmode=-1" to /etc/yaboot.conf ( run ybin afterwards ) |
| 23:47.06 | donofrio | k |
| 23:47.36 | donofrio | 10.0.4 eh ;) |
| 23:47.53 | donofrio | I was like running 11 last time and 12 broke video lol |
| 23:48.14 | bikerr | must be like 100 years old that :D |
| 23:48.49 | bikerr | can post my xorg.conf too |
| 23:49.52 | bikerr | http://pastebin.com/v4X3H28D |
| 23:50.02 | bikerr | that should speed things up |
| 23:50.48 | donofrio | k thank you very much.... |
| 23:51.03 | donofrio | love to keep the older "still working" systems running or at least usable lol |
| 23:52.05 | bikerr | np, its not like much of this info is collected or anything anywhere |
| 23:52.13 | bikerr | easily accessible and all |
| 23:53.39 | bikerr | system is at least more responsive now |
| 23:54.36 | bikerr | have a nice little config for linux-4.5 too now, should not take a day to compile the kernel .. |
| 23:56.28 | bikerr | strangely the touchpad stopped working tho... hope its just a matter of a disabled module |