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  • Debian freezing on PowerMac G4

    From Herminio Hernandez Jr.@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 6 00:00:04 2022
    Hey,

    Took out my PowerMac G4 and installed Debian again. The install went smooth with the exception of the grub install. Got through that and it booted perfectly. I installed the nonfree firmware and the amd graphics package. When I rebooted the system froze.
    In the past I would put the kernel setting Radeon.agpmode=-1 and that would resolve it. I dropped to grub edit mode and added that like and it still froze. There something else I need to do?

    Herminio

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  • From Mike@21:1/5 to herminio.hernandezjr@gmail.com on Sun Feb 6 03:50:02 2022
    You are going to have to be a bit more specific, what gpu? You are
    probably supposed to be using xserver-xorg-video-radeon or xserver-xorg-video-ati unless you happen to have a very new GPU in
    there.
    https://www.x.org/wiki/radeon/ https://github.com/freedesktop/xorg-xf86-video-ati


    Michael

    On Sat, 5 Feb 2022 at 23:50, Herminio Hernandez Jr. <herminio.hernandezjr@gmail.com> wrote:

    Hey,

    Took out my PowerMac G4 and installed Debian again. The install went smooth with the exception of the grub install. Got through that and it booted perfectly. I installed the nonfree firmware and the amd graphics package. When I rebooted the system
    froze. In the past I would put the kernel setting Radeon.agpmode=-1 and that would resolve it. I dropped to grub edit mode and added that like and it still froze. There something else I need to do?

    Herminio

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  • From Herminio Hernandez Jr.@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 6 04:20:01 2022
    I will check. I believe 9400. I am sure it was using either the r300 or r400 driver.

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    On Feb 5, 2022, at 7:44 PM, Mike <michael.heltne@gmail.com> wrote:

    You are going to have to be a bit more specific, what gpu? You are probably supposed to be using xserver-xorg-video-radeon or xserver-xorg-video-ati unless you happen to have a very new GPU in
    there.
    https://www.x.org/wiki/radeon/ https://github.com/freedesktop/xorg-xf86-video-ati


    Michael

    On Sat, 5 Feb 2022 at 23:50, Herminio Hernandez Jr.
    <herminio.hernandezjr@gmail.com> wrote:

    Hey,

    Took out my PowerMac G4 and installed Debian again. The install went smooth with the exception of the grub install. Got through that and it booted perfectly. I installed the nonfree firmware and the amd graphics package. When I rebooted the system
    froze. In the past I would put the kernel setting Radeon.agpmode=-1 and that would resolve it. I dropped to grub edit mode and added that like and it still froze. There something else I need to do?

    Herminio

    Sent from my iPhone

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