Re: X Display Problem on G3 Series PowerBook (Wallstreet)

2021-07-18 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 08:59:54PM -0600, Stan Johnson wrote: > I have a PowerBook Wallstreet, 512 MiB memory, 266 MHz with the current > Debian SID installed. > > The framebuffer is reported as "fb0: Open Firmware frame buffer device > on /pci/ATY,RageLTPro". I tried adding "mach64" to the config

Re: X Display Problem on G3 Series PowerBook (Wallstreet)

2021-07-18 Thread Christian Zigotzky
Hello Stan, We had the same issue during the 5.14 merge window. Please look in the following thread: https://forum.hyperion-entertainment.com/viewtopic.php?p=53511#p53511 There is a patch available. Please try it. Thanks, Christian On 19 July 2021 at 04:59 am, Stan Johnson wrote: Hello,

X Display Problem on G3 Series PowerBook (Wallstreet)

2021-07-18 Thread Stan Johnson
Hello, I have a PowerBook Wallstreet, 512 MiB memory, 266 MHz with the current Debian SID installed. While attempting to upgrade the kernel from 5.6.13 to 5.13.2, I'm having trouble getting X to work. The symptoms are that in 5.13.2, the screen goes blank and never comes back. Since the network a

Re: Altivec in baseline for ppc64?

2021-07-18 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: It depends on the workload, of course. Anything that does SIMD like matrix multiplications in multimedia or scientific computing will, of course, profit from enabling AltiVec. No one claimed that AltiVec, MMX or SSE will just improve everything. Exactly,

Re: Altivec in baseline for ppc64?

2021-07-18 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 4:17 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I never really took notice that IBM captured the projects. But with > your lens it sounds about right. > > ("Captured", as in regulatory capture as seen in the US.