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

If you want a polished LXDE experience, I advise you to install my own 
distribution. It is called MintPPC. It installs everything working out 
of the box.

http://mintppc.nl

Regards,
Jeroen

Jeroen Diederen schreef op 2025-08-24 00:49:
> 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
>>> 
>>> --
>>> .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
>>> : :' : Debian Developer
>>> `. `' Physicist
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