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Hi all this is my first time here and my first time with an Apple Machine
My setup is a
Apple PowerMac7,2 5.1.5f2 BootROM built on 09/21/04 at 11:58:53
5.1.5 - Power Macintosh G5 (Omega, June 2003)
Model No.: A1047 EMC No.: 1969
Serial NO: YM337XXXXXX
Ethernet ID: 000A9597FAE2
CPU 1.6GYHZ 970
RAM 4096MB 333
DISK 160GB HD
DVD-R/CDRW
NVIDIA GF5200 Ultra
56K Modem
I have managed to install Debian Linux 11 (debian-11.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso), CD-ROM Install
With no errors during installation.
First problem, blank screen after first boot,
Access with ssh to this machine and edited /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="text quiet nomodeset"
Then
update-grub2
and finally
reboot
i can access console, text mode
NO GUI,
Tried X -configure
and
X,
No screen detected
On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 3:54 PM Guido R. Rolón A. <grolon@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi all this is my first time here and my first time with an Apple Machine
My setup is a
Apple PowerMac7,2 5.1.5f2 BootROM built on 09/21/04 at 11:58:53
5.1.5 - Power Macintosh G5 (Omega, June 2003)
Model No.: A1047 EMC No.: 1969
Serial NO: YM337XXXXXX
Ethernet ID: 000A9597FAE2
CPU 1.6GYHZ 970
RAM 4096MB 333
DISK 160GB HD
DVD-R/CDRW
NVIDIA GF5200 Ultra
56K Modem
I have managed to install Debian Linux 11(debian-11.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso), CD-ROM Install
With no errors during installation.
First problem, blank screen after first boot,
Access with ssh to this machine and edited /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="text quiet nomodeset"
Then
update-grub2
and finally
reboot
i can access console, text mode
NO GUI,
Tried X -configure
and
X,
No screen detected
This may help: https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
When I had problems with the NVIDIA card, I took the NVIDIA card out,
and installed a Radeon card instead.
Jeff
Thanks, I'll check it out.
On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 4:07 PM Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com <mailto:noloader@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 3:54 PM Guido R. Rolón A. <grolon@gmail.com
<mailto:grolon@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi all this is my first time here and my first time with an Apple
Machine
>
> My setup is a
> Apple PowerMac7,2 5.1.5f2 BootROM built on 09/21/04 at 11:58:53
> 5.1.5 - Power Macintosh G5 (Omega, June 2003)
> Model No.: A1047 EMC No.: 1969
> Serial NO: YM337XXXXXX
> Ethernet ID: 000A9597FAE2
> CPU 1.6GYHZ 970
> RAM 4096MB 333
> DISK 160GB HD
> DVD-R/CDRW
> NVIDIA GF5200 Ultra
> 56K Modem
>
> I have managed to install Debian Linux 11
(debian-11.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso), CD-ROM Install
> With no errors during installation.
> First problem, blank screen after first boot,
> Access with ssh to this machine and edited /etc/default/grub
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="text quiet nomodeset"
> Then
> update-grub2
> and finally
> reboot
> i can access console, text mode
> NO GUI,
>
> Tried X -configure
> and
> X,
> No screen detected
This may help: https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
<https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers>
When I had problems with the NVIDIA card, I took the NVIDIA card out,
and installed a Radeon card instead.
Jeff
Hello,
On 5/20/22 4:20 PM, Guido R. Rolón A. wrote:
Thanks, I'll check it out.
On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 4:07 PM Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com <mailto:noloader@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 3:54 PM Guido R. Rolón A. <grolon@gmail.com
<mailto:grolon@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi all this is my first time here and my first time with an Apple
Machine
>
> My setup is a
> Apple PowerMac7,2 5.1.5f2 BootROM built on 09/21/04 at 11:58:53
> 5.1.5 - Power Macintosh G5 (Omega, June 2003)
> Model No.: A1047 EMC No.: 1969
> Serial NO: YM337XXXXXX
> Ethernet ID: 000A9597FAE2
> CPU 1.6GYHZ 970
> RAM 4096MB 333
> DISK 160GB HD
> DVD-R/CDRW
> NVIDIA GF5200 Ultra
> 56K Modem
>
> I have managed to install Debian Linux 11
(debian-11.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso), CD-ROM Install
> With no errors during installation.
> First problem, blank screen after first boot,
> Access with ssh to this machine and edited /etc/default/grub
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="text quiet nomodeset"
> Then
> update-grub2
> and finally
> reboot
> i can access console, text mode
> NO GUI,
>
> Tried X -configure
> and
> X,
> No screen detected
This may help: https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
<https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers>
When I had problems with the NVIDIA card, I took the NVIDIA card out,
and installed a Radeon card instead.
Jeff
That doesn't look like the right place to go. From what I can see, that
page is about the proprietary driver, which won't work on your card.
You're looking for Nouveau, which should be built in.
--
Ben Westover
This may help: https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
When I had problems with the NVIDIA card, I took the NVIDIA card out,
and installed a Radeon card instead.
...
There was an official Apple Radeon X1900 G5 edition which was PCIe.
I've also read that people have used a Windows PC to flash Mac
firmware onto a PC X1950 PCIe card and this card may be more easily available/cheaper.
If the OPs machine is PCI-X there are more X1900 options but I've no
idea how well the Radeon cards work with Linux.
On May 23, 2022, at 10:32 AM, tonyj@suse.de wrote:
On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 04:05:13PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
This may help: https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
When I had problems with the NVIDIA card, I took the NVIDIA card out,
and installed a Radeon card instead.
As mentioned, the proprietory NVIDIA drivers are x86 only. The only
option is the reverse engineered open-source Nouveau (nv) driver.
I've had endless issues with the nouveau driver on my Quad G5. It
worked years ago (kernel 3.0 era) but ever since the driver has been unreliable or just non-operational.
Tangent: my Quad G5 is in pieces right now (cooling issue). When I
resolve this I wanted to swap in a different card.
Does anyone have a suggestion as to what *PCI-EXPRESS* card works well
with the current kernel and can support open firmware?
There was an official Apple Radeon X1900 G5 edition which was PCIe.
I've also read that people have used a Windows PC to flash Mac
firmware onto a PC X1950 PCIe card and this card may be more easily available/cheaper.
If the OPs machine is PCI-X there are more X1900 options but I've no
idea how well the Radeon cards work with Linux.
Thanks
--
Tony Jones
SUSE Kernel Performance Team
I wonder if new nvidia cards will work now that nvidia has released an open source driver…
On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 1:31 PM <tonyj@suse.de> wrote:
...
There was an official Apple Radeon X1900 G5 edition which was PCIe.
I've also read that people have used a Windows PC to flash Mac
firmware onto a PC X1950 PCIe card and this card may be more easily available/cheaper.
If the OPs machine is PCI-X there are more X1900 options but I've no
idea how well the Radeon cards work with Linux.
Based on my experience with my G5, I was able to use a non-Apple
Raedon card and things worked fine. I did not need to flash ROMs or
jump through other hoops.
For completeness, I picked up a Radeon X1900 GT from eBay. I took out
the existing NVIDIA card and installed the Raedon card. Upon boot I
had a UI.
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