From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 4 10:38:41 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27AA2106566C for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 10:38:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from packages@amiga-hardware.com) Received: from mirkwood.electric-dreams.org (mirkwood.electric-dreams.org [IPv6:2a01:7e00::f03c:91ff:fe93:1cd]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 921FB8FC08 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 10:38:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nyx.homenet.lan (124-169-239-244.dyn.iinet.net.au [124.169.239.244]) (authenticated bits=0) by mirkwood.electric-dreams.org (8.14.5/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q34AcZcn030966 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 10:38:38 GMT Message-ID: <4F7C24AA.6030807@amiga-hardware.com> Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:38:34 +0800 From: Ian Chapman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120329 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org References: <4F798459.4000301@amiga-hardware.com> <20120402131132.78578915@zeta.dino.sk> <4F79A964.2070501@amiga-hardware.com> <4F79BD08.2040605@amiga-hardware.com> <4F79CC19.8040707@amiga-hardware.com> <4F79D208.5040405@amiga-hardware.com> <4F7AD4BB.6060502@amiga-hardware.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=10.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on mirkwood.electric-dreams.org Subject: Re: Newbie - Mac G5 Dual PPC 970 @ 2Ghz X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:38:41 -0000 On 04/03/2012 11:02 PM, Super Bisquit wrote: > Out of curiosity, have you tried running the powerpc 32 bit version of > FreeBSD on it? I haven't as yet but it's worth a shot. I have tried the uniprocessor 64bit kernel in case it was an SMP issue but that does same. I have plenty of disk space so I will also do a 32bit install next week when I'm back as I'm out of town from tomorrow. I also have Fedora 16 PPC and will try a test install to see if Xorg works or not. Booting the DVD in graphics mode just gives me a black screen but I suspect that might be because it needs the "ReverseDDC" option as I have a monitor connected to the DVI port but none on the ADC port, but I can't be sure till I actually install it. > I'm also curious as to what the performance would be if you installed it > into the server. > Open Firmware isn't x86 BIOS; this makes me wonder why Xorg is even > looking for BIOs. Also, I've read that theatre and TV options may need > to be disabled for now. I did try disable all theatre related options and all acceleration options but it made no difference. If I do decide to put a cheap PCI graphics card as a second display output, I'll let you know if that works or not. > I'm going to add more later to the reply. I want to look up your model > and see what the Logic board is with the main graphics- no ppc64 here, > just ppc32. Appreciated. Let me know if you want a dump of any of the hardware specs. Cheers. -- Ian Chapman.