I worked with Claude AI to run down and fix the issue causing my 2006 macpro1,1 to periodically hard crash with Debian 13, getting back nearly an entire core, which was spinning madly servicing an unused Apple interrupt.
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Hello everyone,
I've been working on getting decent hardware 2D/3D acceleration and video decoding on my PowerMac G4 MDD. My goal is to keep the stock Radeon 9000 PRO AGP card for OS 9, macOS X, and MorphOS, while using a newer PCI card for Linux.
After testing several NVIDIA cards with little...
For years I had a well working setup where my movie files and their related metadata are hosted on an HDD connected to a Raspberry Linux server running a Debian derivative (Raspbian) and my Vero player devices (also Debian based) used a share from it to play Movies and TV Series.
I also use a...
I am currently maxing out all my Macs and dualbooting old OS X versions and bleeding edge Linux. I installed Debian 11, and besides the sleep issues everything just worked, except the WiFi.
I mean it did connect, but it would drop out and die forever, never connecting again to my home network...
Mac OS X Tiger was released in 2005, its final security update being in 2009. Mac OS X Leopard was released in 2007, given its very last security update in 2011, and is the ultimate version of Mac OS X compatible with the PowerPC architecture, effectively marking the entire family EOL, even for...