Re: Strange graphics issues on G5 with NVIDIA 6600
Jason Bacon <[email protected]>
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On 1/12/21 10:22 AM, Dennis Clarke via freebsd-ppc wrote: > <snip> >> I didn't put any serious effort into resolving the resolution issues, so >> it might be possible to get it working beyond 640x480. Or maybe there's >> another card that someone on this list can verify works well? >> > Off topic slightly but exactly what and how did you even do an install > on this box? I have four of these units laying around wherein one of > them is a workable unit with the so-called "quad" PPC64 config. Not > much runs on them these days and that includes Debian Linux wherein > the installer is slightly broken. Slightly. There just is not much in > the way of resources alive and workingout there that cares to debug > the multitude of issues we face with this architecture. So I have to > ask you, what did you use to install FreeBSD on this unit? I have not > seen a workable installer in at least a year. > > > FreeBSD 12.1 install was a pretty straightforward from a USB stick, though as I recall the G5s are fussy about USB sticks, e.g. they don't recognize U3 flash drives. Install from CD should work as well. Then "pkg install desktop-installer" and "desktop-installer" to set up the GUI. Lumina desktop works well on these systems. It's probably the fastest full-blown DE. LXDE was really sluggish on my iMac for some reason. Some runaway fan issues on the PowerMac that are reportedly avoided by disabling SMP. -- Earth is a beta site. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"