I still have no Xorg and Desktop Environment working yet. I hope that the patch will solve this issue as well.

All has moved good 10 to 15cm to the right and trunks the image.

If I use the max supported screen resolution of 1440x900, it is off center. I was able to get the basic system up and running on the PowerMac G5 but not with full resolution though. I will give it a try and patch the nouveau driver. The following bug report has a patch for the issue in kernels 4.3+ but I haven't tried it: I tried troubleshooting/debugging the issue further but I put it on hold until now when I have time again. I will give it another try and use some of your recommendations. x86 and x86_64 are by far easier in compare. I'm trying in setting up the same type of equipment and did run into some issues, including the black screen and poor video performance. Thank you for sharing your experiences in setting up a Power Mac G5 with Gentoo. (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0 (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized swrast (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering (II) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI2 capable Got vlc/mplayer running although I had to load the snd_aoa_i2sbus for sound to work.Īlso both mplayer/vlc complain about low frame which is probably due to X loaded with software rendering: I can start X with awesome and no distorted colors now. One peculiar thing is that the card only boots when it's connected on the right DVI port as seen from the back otherwise it goes blank. That's great info.This is the kernel config I have at the moment: Though I have not tried it since I'm trying to research on the understanding of DCB tables and how ofw handles the msi address of the fcode rom.ĭisableing nvidia_fb in kernel can't boot at all which seems to be required for KMS. Someone even reported to have a out of box kernel that just works. Though at this moment only 2d is reportedly working. The powerpc mailing list on debian is pretty active with trying to get a working PCIe/PCIx nvidia card. So seems to explain why I don't have no working X. Reading this seems to be a regression in the 4.0+ kernel with the DCB tables. I tried without nvidiafb and wouldn't boot at all with/without any parameters. For example make sure nvidiafb is compiled as a driver inside kernel. At boot prompt boot: Linux nouveau.modeset=0. So, you should try that first and it will by default use offb. Would installing an initramfs with nouveau make a difference?īy the way if you got a properly configured kernel you shouldn't really have to put no yaboot parameters for OFW to use. Unfortunately that doesn't work at all for me, some screen output comes up right after yaboot and then a blank screen. Now far as a working Xorg, that is a task that has not been successful for me. The combination that just gets me to console is: nouveau.modeset=1. I recompiled the kernel with nouveau support and used VIDEO_CARDS='nouveau' in /etc/portage/nf but kernel option video=nouveau leads to a blank screen, sounds like this issue ?įurthermore, I installed awesome window manager but the colors are distorted, kernel was booted with video=ofonly and the Xorg log issues errors about kms : kms not enabled. Install went flawlessly, although not sure what I did wrong the first time, but now I'm trying to get graphics working properly, Nvidia NV43 card. Selected the desktop profile(no gnome/kde/systemd)Ĭopied nf from the previous install, I'm not in front of the ppc now so will need to check if changed anything. Starting from the partitioning, I left the partitions the same as the previous install and simply rerun mkfs.ext4 on /rootĬompiled the kernel with g5_defconfig - no options changed, no initramfs installed Thanks for taking the time to help, installation issue has been 'resolved'. Also, what kernel are you using? I'm using 4.1.4(64bit userland) with no problems at all. Hey so, what's your nf? Reason I ask is your ofpath looks kind of funny. In addition I selected the gnome-systemd profile with eselect profile set. I used both the g5_defconfig for compiling the kernel and tried one just by doing manual configuration, both with the same result. I'm trying to install Gentoo on a late 2005 PowerMac G5 with 2x dual core processors. Thsi is my first post and first installation of Gentoo. Posted: Sun 7:54 pm Post subject: Gentoo on PowerMac G5 I'm trying to install debian sid on a powermac G5.Gentoo Forums :: View topic - Gentoo on PowerMac G5 Hi all, i post again here, since it seems to be the place for sid related issues

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