Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 14:38:04 +0100 From: Martin Kukac <logout128@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 10.1 on PowerMac 7,3 Message-ID: <mcfafs$t78$1@ger.gmane.org>
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Hello, I have PowerMac G5 2.0DP (PM7,3 but has PowerPC 970 (version 2.2) CPU not the fx ones) and I'm trying to make FreeBSD working on it. I'm sorry if problems I will mention in the following text were already discussed here, but I didn't find answers, when I searched through the list. Install was quite straightforward, though I had to download USB image and boot from USB, because ISO did always hang during boot. The only minor problem here were inverted colors in virtual consoles, which persists even in the installed systems, but I can live with that, as I mainly work in X, where colors are OK. The first problem I have is power/thermal management - CPUs seem to be stuck on 1300MHz instead of 2000MHz and what's bigger problem - I don't think fans work the way they should. Sysctl output displays constant rpm on all fans except the "backside" one and from what I saw inside the case system really does not modify speed of any other fan. Temperature of both CPUs seems to be constant as well, I have never seen different temperature than that right after the boot. This is a problem, because during Xorg compilation system warned me that the U3 has reached 92C and I'm a bit afraid about the machine. The second problem is (maybe it has something to do with inverted colors in terminal) that after I start X session, all virtual consoles become broken. Even though input still works, text is not readable, it looks like this: http://i61.tinypic.com/wnq7p.jpg The card is Radeon 9800 Pro. Any suggestions? I wanted to replace Debian on my machine with FreeBSD and I didn't expect to end this soon. Thanks, Martin
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