Re: iMac G5 LXDE colour depth issue

Mircea Romanitan via freebsd-ppc <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ppc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On iMac i have NV34M (FX5200) one.
Anything should i install? I could not install dry-kmod.
Also all the nvidia drivers are not buildable on powerpc.


> On 26 Jul 2019, at 22:27, Justin Hibbits <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 19:22:33 +0000
> Mark Linimon <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 10:16:13PM +0300, Mircea Romanitan via
>> freebsd-ppc wrote:
>>> Installed from ports X, LXDE, but starting X the colours are ugly.  
>> 
>> I have a Blackbird (Power9) running 13.0-CURRENT r349478 and xfce4 and
>> the colors are ugly there, too.
>> 
>> So, I think we have a generic problem on ppc64 with graphics.
>> 
>> I haven't investigated yet, myself, as the machine is still fairly new
>> to me, and I'm mostly sshing to it right now.
>> 
>> mcl
> 
> It's not a generic problem on ppc64, just a generic problem on ppc64
> with AST graphics (BMC on the Blackbird and Talos).  It's an endian
> issue.  With a discrete graphics card (old AMD graphics card supported
> by graphics/drm-legacy-kmod) it should be fine.  Acceleration is another
> story altogether, though.
> 
> - Justin

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