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Re: Powermac G5 7,2 Nvidia GeForce 6800 GT graphics issues

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Hi,

On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Scott Thompson <scottt4@earthlink.net> wrote:
> l have installed Jessie 8.0.0 on this Powermac G5 7,2 with an Nvidia GeForce
> 6800 GT, next I installed Peter Saisanas' 4.5.0-rc2 kernel. Finally I
> upgraded to testing.
>
>
> When I boot and ssh into the machine I get this at the end of dmesg.
>
>
> [   17.394681] cfg80211:   (5490000 KHz - 5730000 KHz @ 160000 KHz), (N/A,
> 2000 mBm), (0 s)
> [   17.395263] cfg80211:   (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 80000 KHz), (N/A,
> 2000 mBm), (N/A)
> [   17.395840] cfg80211:   (57240000 KHz - 63720000 KHz @ 2160000 KHz),
> (N/A, 0 mBm), (N/A)
> [   18.923368] sungem_phy: PHY ID: 2062e0, addr: 1
> [   18.923640] gem 0001:04:0f.0 eth0: Found BCM5421-K2 PHY
> [   19.773013] nouveau 0000:f0:10.0: gr: intr 00100000 [ERROR] nsource
> 00000010 [LIMIT_COLOR] nstatus 04000000 [PROTECTION_FAULT] ch 1 [0008e000
> Xorg[874]] subc 4 class 009f mthd 0308 data 038405a0
> [   22.535201] gem 0001:04:0f.0 eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full-duplex
> [   22.535328] gem 0001:04:0f.0 eth0: Pause is enabled (rxfifo: 10240 off:
> 7168 on: 5632)
>
>
> and frozen checkerboard graphics.
>
> I tried to boot with nouveau.noaccel=1 but with LightDM I get a blank
> screen.  I have also tried installing XDM and with nouveau.noaccel=1 I can
> get to a desktop and log in, but the colors are all wrong.
>
> Any suggestions?

As far as I know there is no (real) need to use Peter's kernel
anymore, it was originally created because of:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819535

Please make sure to use one of the official kernel, and then report a
proper bug report if needed.

Thanks

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Powermac G5 7,2 Nvidia GeForce 6800 GT graphics issues Scott Thompson <scottt4@earthlink.net> - 2016-03-26 18:20 +0100
  Re: Powermac G5 7,2 Nvidia GeForce 6800 GT graphics issues Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org> - 2016-03-30 10:50 +0200
    Re: Powermac G5 7,2 Nvidia GeForce 6800 GT graphics issues Risto Suominen <risto.suominen@gmail.com> - 2016-03-30 11:30 +0200

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