Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2025-08-21

Start with LXDE and LightDM. KDE is too heavy.

Ken Cunningham schreef op 2025-08-24 00:31:
> Well it sounds like you're getting graphics initialized now, if you
> are seeing a moving mouse cursor...
> 
> For interest, I have found not every desktop environment works well on
> these old PowerPC systems.
> 
> Most of my systems use XFCE, which is working quite well on all of
> them.
> 
> The faster machines can use MATE.
> 
> I have (so far) had no luck with anything fancier on the PowerPC
> systems, KDE, etc.
> 
> K
> 
>> On Aug 23, 2025, at 10:18 AM, Michael Campbell
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> -------------------------
>> FROM:
>> Michael Campbell <[email protected]>
>> SENT: August 23, 2025 1:15:47 PM EDT
>> TO:
>> Jeroen Diederen <[email protected]>
>> SUBJECT:
>> Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2025-08-21
>> 
>> Thanks for this. It gets me a little further. startx now clears the
>> screen and a mouse cursor appears and is responsive to mouse
>> movements, but KDE never comes up.
>> 
>> I cannot kill X-Windows in any way that I have found online, and
>> have to resort to manually turning the system off via it's power
>> button. Worse still, after doing so and restarting, it comes right
>> up (slowly) back to the same spot. I have effectively lost control
>> of the system.
>> 
>> Do you have any more pointers you might impart? This one helped, but
>> I have a whole new problem now.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Michael
>> 
>> On August 21, 2025 9:35:27 AM EDT, Jeroen Diederen
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> You might need to do the following. Boot the machine in recovery
>> mode. You then do:
>> 
>> mv /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libglamoregl.so
>> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libglamoregl.so.bak
>> 
>> Ctrl-d or exit to resume booting.
>> 
>> Michael Campbell schreef op 2025-08-21 20:18:
>> 
>> Hi, thanks for this. I am new to this list; this is my first "post".
>> 
>> I am attempting to install Debian 12 PPC64 on my Power Mac G5 Quad.
>> The installer runs to completion more or less successfully, although
>> it did complain about b43 firmware, presumably related to the Apple
>> WiFi/Bluetooth card I have installed. The result boots to GRUB, and
>> when I select any non-recovery mode selection from the GRUB menu, it
>> takes off nicely. Screens worth of startup messages go by, then the
>> screen clears. I BRIEFLY see a text mode login prompt and then the
>> screen clears again. That is it. Nothing further happens. I let it
>> sit
>> that way for ten minutes, but nothing further happens.
>> 
>> I am TOTALLY new to Debian, although I have a fair deal of
>> experience
>> configuring and installing Arch Linux and the old openSuSE.
>> 
>> Does what I described above suggest anything to any reader?
>> 
>> My system details: my G5 Quad has 16 GB of RAM, a Quadro FX 4500
>> graphics card, two internal SATA HDDs, one actually an SSD and the
>> other a 2 TB spinner. It is the spinner that I trying to install
>> Debian onto. I select Guided, and Whole Disk during install. The
>> Quad
>> also has a PCIe eSATA card and a FireWire 800 port expansion card.
>> It
>> is also unique in that I have converted it from liquid cooling to
>> air
>> cooling, although all the stock Apple fans remain in place and
>> operative. I have an Apple FW400 iSight camera and a USB microphone
>> also attached.
>> 
>> I normally run 10.5.9 Sorbet Leopard on it.
>> 
>> Any thoughts on why the existing new install doesn't seem to come up
>> to a point where it is usable would be most appreciated.
>> 
>> Meantime, I will try it this new installer and see if that changes
>> things.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Michael
>> 
>> On August 20, 2025 6:31:21 PM EDT, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I just created updated Debian Ports installation images based on
>> kernel 6.12.38. These are using the debian-installer from Trixie.
>> 
>> They can be downloaded from here:
>> 
>> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2025-08-21/
>> 
>> Please test and report back.
>> 
>> Known issues are kernel instabilities on sun4u (sparc64) machines
>> which are currently being investigated. I will write a separate
>> mail on the issue.
>> 
>> Adrian
>> 
>> --
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