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

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

2012-02-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mit, 2012-02-15 at 14:18 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 08:06:26PM +0100, szukw...@arcor.de wrote: I have debian-6.0.3-ppc installed on a PowerMac G5. The graphics card used is a ATI Radeon 9600 AP (AGP) with one backward key(1.5V key). The board has one

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

2012-02-16 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 09:58:40AM +0100, 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

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

2012-02-16 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Don, 2012-02-16 at 10:19 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 09:58:40AM +0100, 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

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

2012-02-16 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 05:09:14PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: He was asking about a PCI card. PCI and AGP. But not PCIe. Not too many options for PCI and AGP anymore. You're right, although with KMS, console will work as soon as the radeon kernel module is loaded (which can happen very

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

2012-02-16 Thread szukw000
On 16.02.2012, lsorense wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 05:09:14PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: He was asking about a PCI card. PCI and AGP. But not PCIe. Not too many options for PCI and AGP anymore. You're right, although with KMS, console will work as soon as the radeon kernel

graphics card for PowerPC G5 and debian-6.0.3-ppc

2012-02-15 Thread szukw000
I have debian-6.0.3-ppc installed on a PowerMac G5. The graphics card used is a ATI Radeon 9600 AP (AGP) with one backward key(1.5V key). The board has one AGP slot; and 3 PCI slots (length ~125 mm). 1. Is it possible to use a Radeon HD 5450 PCI card with debian-6.0.3-ppc? 2. Is it

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

2012-02-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 08:06:26PM +0100, szukw...@arcor.de wrote: I have debian-6.0.3-ppc installed on a PowerMac G5. The graphics card used is a ATI Radeon 9600 AP (AGP) with one backward key(1.5V key). The board has one AGP slot; and 3 PCI slots (length ~125 mm). 1. Is it possible to