Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 12:29:30 +0300 From: Mircea Romanitan <mitch_mrc@yahoo.com> To: Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf@gmail.com> Cc: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, powerpc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: iMac G5 LXDE colour depth issue Message-ID: <25F4A7BD-ABD3-439A-B5B0-8F1CD6F6D30D@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20190726142702.4375364c@titan.knownspace> References: <C328A6F1-5CB4-40D8-BF1E-B9EE5C1E8EDF@yahoo.com> <20190726192233.GB26129@lonesome.com> <20190726142702.4375364c@titan.knownspace>
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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 <chmeeedalf@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 19:22:33 +0000 > Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> 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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