Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2018-10-03 Thread bertrand . dekoninck
On 2018-10-03 08:36:46 +0200 Gabriel Paubert wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 03:06:17PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >> Rick Thomas composed on 2016-05-02 15:49 (UTC-0700): > >>> So, in the interest of getting something that works without tinkering: > >>> Is there a hardware solution? Is there a

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2018-10-03 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 02:45:56AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Gabriel Paubert composed on 2018-10-03 08:36 (UTC+0200): > > >> Some Macs, G4s at least, came with AMD/ATI gfxcards. You ought to be able > >> to > >> find one of those to try. > > > Trouble is, if I remember correctly, all G4 were d

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2018-10-03 Thread Felix Miata
Gabriel Paubert composed on 2018-10-03 09:47 (UTC+0200): > On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 02:45:56AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >> Gabriel Paubert composed on 2018-10-03 08:36 (UTC+0200): >> > Trouble is, if I remember correctly, all G4 were delivered with PCI or >> > AGP, >> > and all G5 with PCIe. I

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2018-10-02 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 03:06:17PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Rick Thomas composed on 2016-05-02 15:49 (UTC-0700): > > > So, in the interest of getting something that works without tinkering: > > > Is there a hardware solution? Is there a non-Nvidia graphics card I > > could purchase and instal

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2018-10-02 Thread Felix Miata
Gabriel Paubert composed on 2018-10-03 08:36 (UTC+0200): >> Some Macs, G4s at least, came with AMD/ATI gfxcards. You ought to be able to >> find one of those to try. > Trouble is, if I remember correctly, all G4 were delivered with PCI or AGP, > and all G5 with PCIe. It won't be exactly "Plug an

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2018-10-02 Thread Felix Miata
Rick Thomas composed on 2016-05-02 15:49 (UTC-0700): > So, in the interest of getting something that works without tinkering: > Is there a hardware solution? Is there a non-Nvidia graphics card I > could purchase and install in my PowerMac-G5 11,2 that wouldn’t have the > problem? I don’t need

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2018-10-02 Thread Rick Thomas
Sorry about your LCS!  (stands for Liquid Cooling System -- the multicore G5's run *HOT*)  That's a lot of work!And thanks for the hints on doing my own tinkering...  It would be funif I had the time.  Unfortunately, time is something I'm short of rightnow. So, in the interest of getting something

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-05-31 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi, Glad to hear sound is working for you now. Did you check you had actually hardware accelerated setup ? You need to check the output of glxinfo (cant remember if there is any other easy way). I was also considering installing kodi on my Mac Mini G4, but it seems the Debian package only allow t

Re: Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-05-31 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Richard Kuenz wrote: > Hello , > > i am on a fresh install of Debian Wheezy kernel 3.2 on Powermac G5 Dual > (model 7,3) with Radeon 9600XT - very nice. > > atm i am compiling Mpv player > > Can someone please give me a hint how to enable sound on this machine? D

Re: Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-05-27 Thread Richard Kuenz
Hello , i am on a fresh install of Debian Wheezy kernel 3.2 on Powermac G5 Dual (model 7,3) with Radeon 9600XT - very nice. atm i am compiling Mpv player Can someone please give me a hint how to enable sound on this machine? thanks richard ps. i won a Nvidia Ultra 6800 Dual - will i be

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-05-09 Thread Michel Dänzer
On 09.05.2016 16:24, Bertrand Dekoninck wrote: > > I'm still on wheezy on PowerMac7.3 with Radeon-9600 AGP (rv350). It > works without 3d (with fbdev I think) > > I did test once again Debian-8.5 last week on the same machine : it > works as well now (it was kindof broken in 8.0). > > I didn't te

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-05-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, May 9, 2016, at 12:24 AM, Bertrand Dekoninck wrote: > I'm still on wheezy on PowerMac7.3 with Radeon-9600 AGP (rv350). It > works without 3d (with fbdev I think) > > I did test once again Debian-8.5 last week on the same machine : it > works as well now (it was kindof broken in 8.0).

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-05-09 Thread Bertrand Dekoninck
Hi Rick, Le 09/05/2016 08:56, Mathieu Malaterre a écrit : On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 8:44 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: On May 8, 2016, at 11:06 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Hi Rick, On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 12:49 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: [...] Is there a hardware solution? Is there a non-Nvidia gr

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-05-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 8, 2016, at 11:56 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > If you want to stick with your actual nvidia graphics cards (until the > bug is fixed upstream in nouveau), you are required to rebuild your > kernel and change the setting for PPC_64K_PAGES. > > refs: > https://wiki.debian.org/HowToRebuil

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-05-09 Thread Michel Dänzer
On 09.05.2016 15:44, Rick Thomas wrote: > On May 8, 2016, at 11:06 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 12:49 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> [...] >>> Is there a hardware solution? Is there a non-Nvidia graphics card I >>> could purchase and install in my PowerMac-G5 11,2 that would

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-05-08 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 8:44 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On May 8, 2016, at 11:06 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > >> Hi Rick, >> >> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 12:49 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> [...] >>> Is there a hardware solution? Is there a non-Nvidia graphics card I >>> could purchase and install in

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-05-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 8, 2016, at 11:06 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hi Rick, > > On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 12:49 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > [...] >> Is there a hardware solution? Is there a non-Nvidia graphics card I >> could purchase and install in my PowerMac-G5 11,2 that wouldn’t have the >> problem? I d

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-05-08 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi Rick, On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 12:49 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: [...] > Is there a hardware solution? Is there a non-Nvidia graphics card I > could purchase and install in my PowerMac-G5 11,2 that wouldn’t have the > problem? I don’t need anything fancy. Just enough to run a simple 2D > mate or

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-05-08 Thread Rick Thomas
Sorry about your LCS! (stands for Liquid Cooling System -- the multi core G5's run *HOT*) That's a lot of work! And thanks for the hints on doing my own tinkering... It would be fun if I had the time. Unfortunately, time is something I'm short of right now. So, in the interest of getting som

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-05-02 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, May 2, 2016, at 07:27 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 05:37:07PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > > > It looks like events have caught up with us. There’s now a 4.5.0 kernel in > > Debian testing and strong hints that the kernel in Stretch, when it’s >

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-05-02 Thread Peter Saisanas
Hi Rick, Unfortunately, all three of my Powermac G5 Quad's require the LCS to be rebuilt. Until i find the spare time to rebuild the LCS, i wont be building kernels anytime soon. I doubt that Debian PPC arch would make an official kernel package specifically for the PMAC 11.2. Either way, as

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-05-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 05:37:07PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > Hi Peter, > > It looks like events have caught up with us. There’s now a 4.5.0 kernel in > Debian testing and strong hints that the kernel in Stretch, when it’s > released, will be based on 4.6. So your reconfigured 4.5.0-rc2 kerne

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-04-29 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Peter, It looks like events have caught up with us. There’s now a 4.5.0 kernel in Debian testing and strong hints that the kernel in Stretch, when it’s released, will be based on 4.6. So your reconfigured 4.5.0-rc2 kernel is getting out-of-date. Which raises a couple of questions: Is th

Re: Re: Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-02-06 Thread Peter Saisanas
Hi Logan, Oh well, cant say we didn't try everything! So from my recollection, currently the status of Apple OEM or FCODE flashed nVidia GPU's reported working with nouveau on PPC G5's: AGP: GeForce 5200. PCIe: GeForce 6600, GeForce 7800GT, GeForce 7800GTX, Quadro FX4500. Obviously this is wi

Re: Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-02-04 Thread Logan Anteau
Peter, Sorry work has been crazy lately. I finally got a chance to try this tonight...it did not work. No change. We're definitely not having much luck here... Logan On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 3:25 AM, Peter Saisanas wrote: > Hi Anton, > > Ok, a few more things to try, I have googled around and

Re: Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-01-28 Thread Peter Saisanas
Hi Anton, Ok, a few more things to try, I have googled around and found an old post on the mintppc forum. Bear in mind this is from 2012 This may or may not still be relevant or current info, but give it a go. http://www.mintppc.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=810&start=10 According to t

Re: Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-01-27 Thread Logan Anteau
Hi Peter, Yes you're right, I did reach out to the Nouveau mailing list. So far I haven't received any replies on that. I have spoken in #nouveau to "imirkin" and he has not had many ideas. He poked "skeggsb" about it, but never received much of a response from him.. I have only one monitor conne

Re: Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-01-27 Thread Peter Saisanas
Hi Logan, I was hoping that you would reply, i'm curious what your issue is with nouveau. I did see that you have placed a message on the nouveau mailing list, good stuff! For others interested on the Debian PPC mailing list, i have copied the link to your message on the nouveau mailing list

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-01-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 21, 2016, at 3:43 PM, Peter Saisanas wrote: > If this only seems to happen when lightdm starts (i.e. xorg starts up) and > not the nouveau fb console, perhaps sending xorg logs may provide more info... The dmesg log might be helpful as well. Rick

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-01-21 Thread Peter Saisanas
Hi Logan, H, well at least you updated to much newer packages... but alas, that didn’t help. If this only seems to happen when lightdm starts (i.e. xorg starts up) and not the nouveau fb console, perhaps sending xorg logs may provide more info... Otherwise, it may be something to discuss wit

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-01-21 Thread Logan Anteau
Peter, Sorry for the delay in following up with this. I got a chance to try the suggestions you provided in your last message. To your first question, yes this only occurs when lightdm attempts to start up, the nouveau fb console seems to work fine. I had not previously blacklisted "nv", but I did

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-01-14 Thread Peter Saisanas
Hi Logan, On the positive, you do not seem to be having any more EDID issues once you have switched to the other LCD screen. But this line seems a worry: [ 27.168859] nouveau :f0:10.0: gr: intr 0010 [ERROR] nsource 0010 [LIMIT_COLOR] nstatus 0400 [PROTECTION_FAULT] ch 1 [0008e00

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-01-14 Thread Aidan Sciortino
Logan, I believe that there is a 4.4.0 rc7 kernel up on that same page. I have a single core 1.8ghz, and that kernel did the trick for me. The 3.18 version had the same networking problems for me. Hope I could be of help! Aidan Sciortino On Thu, Jan 14, 2016, 6:12 PM Logan Anteau wrote: > Pet

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-01-14 Thread Logan Anteau
Peter, I have installed your 4.4.0 kernel. With the same monitor I was using before I get this dmesg log (seems to be about the same issue). Same EDID issue with the other DVI port too: http://pastebin.com/NJDvK56K I tried another monitor and I get a black screen that eventually has white,purple

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-01-14 Thread Peter Saisanas
Hi Logan, Not sure if you have intentionally disabled MSI interrupts for nouveau, but i believe the MSI interrupts only need to be disabled for PCIe based nVidia gpu's running the nouveau driver on Powermac G5's only. I have my doubts that AGP based nVidia GPU's ever have MSI interrupts enable

Re: Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-01-14 Thread Logan Anteau
Peter, Thanks for your suggestions. Here's a pastebin of my /proc/interrupts: http://pastebin.com/2ZG4qESD I'll try one of your newer kernels either tonight or tomorrow when I get time. I believe I tried your 3.8.16 kernel and had other issues with it. Networking didn't work out of the box, the

Re: Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-01-14 Thread Peter Saisanas
Hi Logan, The kernel version is quite old (3.16.7). Perhaps you can try something newer. Nouveau continually has improvements practically with each newer kernel version. Perhaps something to consider, try the easy way out and use a pre-compiled kernel deb package that i have available. I have

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-01-13 Thread Logan Anteau
Can you paste an example of the yaboot config so I can see that too? What kernel version should I try building for my best chance of this working? Is the 3.16.7 version I built too old? If I grep my kernel config file for nouveau, I turn up nothing...any other suggestions? Logan On Wed, Jan 13, 2

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-01-13 Thread Logan Anteau
Sorry, forgot to click reply all: Brock, It's Jessie 8.2. I looked at yaboot.conf and just changed the vmlinux and initrd.img symlinks to point to my newly installed kernel in /boot. This part is working because upon reboot a uname -r reveals my new kernel is running. Full dmesg log: http://past

Re: Power Mac G5: Attempting to get 2D acceleration with nouveau and 6800 Ultra

2016-01-13 Thread Brock Wittrock
Would you be able to post the full dmesg log? Might help track this one down a bit quicker. I'm assuming you installed a version of Jessie (8.0 - 8.2)? You updated your yaboot.conf to boot from the new kernel (or you are specifying it from boot yaboot menu at startup)? Thanks, B-rock On Wed, Ja