Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 17:54:46 -0600 From: Jason Bacon <bacon4000@gmail.com> To: Julio Merino <julio@meroh.net>, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange graphics issues on G5 with NVIDIA 6600 Message-ID: <bd68befb-cfbb-c7e3-c861-7cb0e115987a@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CADyfeQU7d_zJ539wBFJiKH3Pme1jFbUr1MkqszW1mbPa4yVBmw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CADyfeQU7d_zJ539wBFJiKH3Pme1jFbUr1MkqszW1mbPa4yVBmw@mail.gmail.com>
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Yeah, ppc works remarkably well with FreeBSD.=C2=A0 If we just had Firefo= x=20 and Thunderbird, I could actually use my iMac G5 for my daily work routin= e. The nv driver is deprecated and gets very little attention these days.=C2= =A0=20 You might be better off swapping in a Radeon card.=C2=A0 Not sure which o= ne=20 would work well with ppc.=C2=A0 The one in my PowerMac G5 only seems to=20 support 640x480 under FreeBSD 12.1. Have fun... =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 JB On 1/11/21 12:09 AM, Julio Merino wrote: > Hello all, > > It has been a long time since I touched FreeBSD last... but I recently = got > a PowerMac G5 (because!) and FreeBSD seems to be the only reasonable ch= oice > these days for such a machine. So... I'm back here :) > > First of all, and to be honest, everything has worked better than expec= ted. > I could get the system installed without trouble and I've been surprise= d to > see that there are now pre-built binary packages for powerpc64 availabl= e > out of the box! A very nice surprise. Last time I tried this on a simil= ar > machine 7 years ago, I remember having to build a ton of stuff from > scratch, which wasn't fun... > > So... I have installed X.org and, on the first attempt to run it, I got= the > following video output: > > https://photos.app.goo.gl/R1bx4FCRD7aRKG9x9 > > Note that the colors are all off and that half of the screen is "strang= e": > the background is split in two colors. This picked up the scfb driver. > > This machine comes with an NVIDIA 6600, so I manually installed > xf86-driver-nv to give it another try. With the nv driver, I got this: > > https://photos.app.goo.gl/U7Yx3zs2YfND25ks7 > > In this case, the colors are good and things mostly work... but note th= at > the background problem is still there. And if I maximize something like= > xterm, the same thing happens: the top of the window has the right whit= e > color, but more than half is black and has some rendering artifacts: > > https://photos.app.goo.gl/kWacbVNXAB8cpqHJ9 > > Lastly, with the nv driver, when I exit Xorg I'm left with a console wi= th > extremely faint text. There is no brightness. > > Here is the X.org startup log: https://pastebin.com/srgPiUiu > > Any thoughts or things I could try? I remember the other machine I had > years ago had this same card and gave me some trouble too, because I > remember buying a Radeon to replace it. Maybe I should do the same thin= g > now? :-/ > > Thank you! > --=20 Earth is a beta site.
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