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Re: Power Mac G5 & Radeon X1900 - driver problem

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On Sep 3, 4:45 pm, Stephen Harker <sjhar...@netspace.net.au> wrote:
> I would tune in.  Yes, there is a significant problem for ppc users
> and some of the other architectures.  In addition there seems to be a
> real problem with pcie cards: few have openfirmware rom options so you
> are stuck with old cards.
It's especially aggravating because so many Linux advocates are all
like "Linux! It makes sweet wizardly love to your old hardware!" Well
no, it bloody well doesn't, not when my older hardware is ever so
slightly out of the mainstream!
> In a
> non-ppc world the general advice appears to be that there is a
> potential conflict between the framebuffer device and the radeon
> device under KMS (Kernel mode setting) kernels and the radeon driver
> now uses KMS.
> As far as I know, PowerPC still requires a framebuffer device,
> otherwise there is no boot console.
No boot console wouldn't be too much of a problem, I was planning on
setting yaboot to auto-boot Linux anyway as I don't have OSX
installed, but of course I want to be sure I've got it working before
I go doing that, and I might have to do that in order to get it
working...gah, catch-22.
> That post is dated around April 2011.  You could try searching under
> "radeon kms ppc" and see if there are any later solutions
I did find http://mac.linux.be/content/xorgconf-ppc-machines-radeon-9600-and-kms-kernel-lucid-lynx
which has a xorg.conf file for Radeon 9600, I might be able to tweak
that to work, but will it disable KMS and use the xorg.conf file just
by dropping it in the search path?

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Power Mac G5 & Radeon X1900 - driver problem commodorejohn <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 18:59 -0700
  Re: Power Mac G5 & Radeon X1900 - driver problem Stephen Harker <sjharker@netspace.net.au> - 2011-09-03 17:32 +1000
    Re: Power Mac G5 & Radeon X1900 - driver problem commodorejohn <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2011-09-03 07:40 -0700
      Re: Power Mac G5 & Radeon X1900 - driver problem Stephen Harker <sjharker@netspace.net.au> - 2011-09-04 07:45 +1000
        Re: Power Mac G5 & Radeon X1900 - driver problem commodorejohn <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2011-09-04 07:37 -0700
          Re: Power Mac G5 & Radeon X1900 - driver problem commodorejohn <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2011-09-26 17:08 -0700
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