Re: graphics card for PowerPC G5 and debian-6.0.3-ppc

2012-02-17 Thread Stephane Louise
Hi, Michel Dänzer wrote: For Radeons, that's only true for older cards without ATOM BIOS, basically anything older than Radeon X1xxx. So this shouldn't be a problem for a Radeon HD 5450, but there might be other issues, e.g. the drivers in the stable release might be too old to properly

Re: graphics card for PowerPC G5 and debian-6.0.3-ppc

2012-02-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fre, 2012-02-17 at 14:33 +0100, Stephane Louise wrote: Michel Dänzer wrote: For Radeons, that's only true for older cards without ATOM BIOS, basically anything older than Radeon X1xxx. So this shouldn't be a problem for a Radeon HD 5450, but there might be other issues, e.g. the

Re: graphics card for PowerPC G5 and debian-6.0.3-ppc

2012-02-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fre, 2012-02-17 at 15:50 +0100, Stephane Louise wrote: Attached (note: this one is without monitor attached, because I am not at home). I don't see any obvious problems, would need to see the output with the monitor connected. BTW, which connector(s) have you tried connecting it to? BTW, no

Re: graphics card for PowerPC G5 and debian-6.0.3-ppc

2012-02-17 Thread Stephane Louise
Attached (note: this one is without monitor attached, because I am not at home). Stéphane 2012/2/17, Michel Dänzer daen...@debian.org: On Fre, 2012-02-17 at 14:33 +0100, Stephane Louise wrote: Michel Dänzer wrote: For Radeons, that's only true for older cards without ATOM BIOS, basically

Re: graphics card for PowerPC G5 and debian-6.0.3-ppc

2012-02-17 Thread Stephane Louise
I tried DVI and HDMI connectors. The only new dmesg that I have is: [drm:radeon_dvi_detect] *ERROR* HDMI-A-1: probed a monitor but no|invalid EDID That's the only time when you can actually see something wrong in dmesg (it doesn't happen each time, but the result is the same). Stéphane Le 17

Re: graphics card for PowerPC G5 and debian-6.0.3-ppc

2012-02-17 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 09:12:33PM +0100, Stephane Louise wrote: I tried DVI and HDMI connectors. The only new dmesg that I have is: [drm:radeon_dvi_detect] *ERROR* HDMI-A-1: probed a monitor but no|invalid EDID That's the only time when you can actually see something wrong in dmesg (it

Re: graphics card for PowerPC G5 and debian-6.0.3-ppc

2012-02-17 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fre, 2012-02-17 at 15:52 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 09:12:33PM +0100, Stephane Louise wrote: I tried DVI and HDMI connectors. The only new dmesg that I have is: [drm:radeon_dvi_detect] *ERROR* HDMI-A-1: probed a monitor but no|invalid EDID Same message when

Help to test libsdl1.2 bug #361826 on powerpc?

2012-02-17 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Hello, (Not subscribed to debian-powerpc@, please CC to me/the bug report as appropriate). Can somebody please help to check if this bug from SDL libraries is still present on powerpc? I don't have access to any powerpc box, and the submitter has not replied for a while. The files are here

Re: Help to test libsdl1.2 bug #361826 on powerpc?

2012-02-17 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:23:48PM +, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: (Not subscribed to debian-powerpc@, please CC to me/the bug report as appropriate). Can somebody please help to check if this bug from SDL libraries is still present on powerpc? I don't have access to any powerpc

Re: Help to test libsdl1.2 bug #361826 on powerpc?

2012-02-17 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Hi Lennart, 2012/2/17 Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca: I don't have video on any powerpc machine, but I ran with ssh -X user@powerpc machine, and ran the testoverlay and testoverlay2 programs. I got no errors from either and they appeared to do something interesting. So if the

Initial boot on iMac G4 results in flickering screen

2012-02-17 Thread Super Bisquit
I'm writing this from an old Hoary LiveCD. Are there any boot parameters I'll need to add to stop the problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: