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

Hi Riccardo,


There was discussion about this on the mailing list last year, but I 
don't think it ever got fixed.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2025/10/msg00060.html

Looks like there was an update two weeks ago stating it's fixed now, though:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/work_items/13952


On 5/20/26 10:34 AM, Jeroen Diederen wrote:
> 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
>