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Bootable ppc cdrom
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Cat7 from emaculation.com tried my live cd (liveslack-ppc.iso) on real machine and found it hangs at PCMCIA script.
Workaround was booting with "debug" parameter, then ctrl-D few times until initrd script made fstab in union directory.
At this prompt you can alter (with nano) or delete union/etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia
Workaround was booting with "debug" parameter, then ctrl-D few times until initrd script made fstab in union directory.
At this prompt you can alter (with nano) or delete union/etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia
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Installed my own Nedo-distro on actual G5 mac.
Problems with my installer:
yaboot in initrd is old, pre-ext4
I fixed this by cp yaboot binary from mounted cdrom
network config during install errs out - just skipped it.
make depend on some so I only have higher version of - made symlink.
Installed self-compiled Mesa from git for my nv43 card, with hack.
Added dri3 enablement to xorg.conf fragment in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
Added vblank_mode=0 to environment variables - otherwise say xfce4 compositor was moving windows at 1 frame per few seconds.
Killed lvp Vulkan software rasterizer - ffplay works, mpv still fails.
Added sbopkg because it just script.
Installed BrassMonkey from binary github repo.
Compiled qemu 5.0.0 and Linux kernel 6.12.92 (93 already there) - 8 hours of kernelcompile .. and still no kvm_pr for me!
No sleep mode either (It hangs before even fully entering sleep state).
Some mesa-demos can hang machine (may be due to my hack for mesa?)
./multiarb OpenGL multitexturing demo for example just show black area where textures should be . Hitting 0-9 on keyboard made some changes in how it look ...
but mplayer -vo gl works, BrassMonkey is accelerated and plays Youtube and can log in to Yahoo mail and Discord and Mastodon (slowly).
So .. usual Linux kind of half-success 😛
edit: typos
It surely took A LOT of work just to keep this working, so I am not complaining ..may be a little bit about ah, developer's priorities.
Problems with my installer:
yaboot in initrd is old, pre-ext4
I fixed this by cp yaboot binary from mounted cdrom
network config during install errs out - just skipped it.
make depend on some so I only have higher version of - made symlink.
Installed self-compiled Mesa from git for my nv43 card, with hack.
Added dri3 enablement to xorg.conf fragment in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
Added vblank_mode=0 to environment variables - otherwise say xfce4 compositor was moving windows at 1 frame per few seconds.
Killed lvp Vulkan software rasterizer - ffplay works, mpv still fails.
Added sbopkg because it just script.
Installed BrassMonkey from binary github repo.
Compiled qemu 5.0.0 and Linux kernel 6.12.92 (93 already there) - 8 hours of kernelcompile .. and still no kvm_pr for me!
No sleep mode either (It hangs before even fully entering sleep state).
Some mesa-demos can hang machine (may be due to my hack for mesa?)
./multiarb OpenGL multitexturing demo for example just show black area where textures should be . Hitting 0-9 on keyboard made some changes in how it look ...
but mplayer -vo gl works, BrassMonkey is accelerated and plays Youtube and can log in to Yahoo mail and Discord and Mastodon (slowly).
So .. usual Linux kind of half-success 😛
edit: typos
It surely took A LOT of work just to keep this working, so I am not complaining ..may be a little bit about ah, developer's priorities.
I am trying to see if some mesa failures due to disabled texture units on GF6600 LE specifically.
github.com
@joevt you messed with GPUs and their vbios/firmware enough for probably trying to run this in osx ppc ? 😉
I think it may work with your pci access kext/library. On linux/ppc it just worked (may be only gpu sensor is wrong?) but OS X is different animal ....
GitHub - strawbs1/nvclock: www.linuxhardware.org/nvclock
www.linuxhardware.org/nvclock. Contribute to strawbs1/nvclock development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
@joevt you messed with GPUs and their vbios/firmware enough for probably trying to run this in osx ppc ? 😉
I think it may work with your pci access kext/library. On linux/ppc it just worked (may be only gpu sensor is wrong?) but OS X is different animal ....
It seems to access Nvidia drivers, rather than poking stuff into PCI directly so it's not useful for Mac OS X.
nvclock/src/backend/nv40.c at master · strawbs1/nvclock
www.linuxhardware.org/nvclock. Contribute to strawbs1/nvclock development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
there is no nvidia binary blobs for ppc yet I compiled and ran it, and it showed me some info