Re: OpenGL with ATI Radeon on Mac hardware - different failures

Hi Riccardo,

You should downgrade the mesa packages to 24.1.6, the last known working 
version for PowerPC.

Best regards,
Jeroen Diederen

Riccardo Mottola schreef op 2026-05-20 18:03:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to get OpenGL acceleration working and need it to test things.
> 
> I have two candidates: iBook G4 and PowerBook G4. I suppose old iBook 
> G3 which has barely 2d acceleration these days is out of the game :)
> In the past, the iBook always had trouble, even before updates. I don't 
> remember if glxgears worked or not, but actual applications like 
> browsers did not.
> The PowerBook G4 instead used to have working OpenGL with an about a 
> year old debian... couldn't upgrade for a long time for various 
> reasons.
> 
> according to lspci, they have:
> 
> iBook G4: ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 - RV280
> PowerBook G4: ATI Mobility Radeon 9600/9700 - RV360/370
> 
> firmware-amd-graphics is installed
> 
> wonder what it is in detail
> 
> I have upgraded debian and am running on both 7.0.7 kernel.
> 
> My simple test is to run glxgears.
> 
> iBook:
> LLVM ERROR: Relocation type not implemented yet!
> Aborted glxgears
> 
> 
> PowerBook:
> Error: coudn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual
> (and exists)
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Riccardo