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Void Linux for PowerPC

wicknix said:
You can edit grub at boot. Using the grub editor I had to add video=TV-1:d to grub for my GeForce fx5200 to work on void64.

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Looks like that i need a little bit more instructions

i can press "e" then i get this:
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or i can press "c" and get this:
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Linux for Dummy's until I understand the Basics of GRUB, please.
 
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I've been trying to get void working on my sawtooth g4 with an agp radeon 9000, but the os keeps hanging when it gets to the lightdm login screen. I've tried adding radeon.agpmode=-1 to the boot options as well as radeon.modeset=1 without any change. What else can i try try to get it working?
 
r34per said:
I've been trying to get void working on my sawtooth g4 with an agp radeon 9000, but the os keeps hanging when it gets to the lightdm login screen. I've tried adding radeon.agpmode=-1 to the boot options as well as radeon.modeset=1 without any change. What else can i try try to get it working?
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Oh, yeah, that's just the Radeon 9000. Nothing can be done, other than using a much, much older version of Linux. Try Ubuntu 12.04, because at some point between the release of 12.04 and 16.04, the AMD driver stopped working with the Radeon 9000. The only other alternative is to get a different video card. I wish I had better news for you.
 
Wicknix, I cannot get InterWeb to run on my PowerMac 11,2. I heard something about that it needs some dependencies. Can you help?
 
You might need to create a symlink for spiderweb/interweb/spidermail/faded orb to work in void32 and Debian 10/Sid. sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libffi.so.7 /usr/lib/libffi.so.6

Otherwise it shouldn't require anything else. Do you get any error messages when you run the binary from terminal?

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It was just the "Cannot execute" error coming up when using run-mozilla.sh. by the way, it's void64.
 
Ahh. Thats just an old left behind mozilla script. Just run the binary. E.g: cd /usr/lib/interweb (or wherever you extracted it to) then ./interweb

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Hi, thanks wicknix! I also have a graphical bug in MATE. As described in the fienix install "fienix-gpu-bandage." I'm having the garbled screen as what I seen there in VOID. Is there a work around?
 
Unfortunately i don't know what the fienix-gpu-bandage is. I only tested Fienix on a macmini G4 briefly with no gfx issues. In void i had massive lagging and tearing issues with my radeon 9600 so i swapped in a nvideo geforce fx5200 which worked fine without issue. Have you tried another DE or WM to see if its a Mate issue, compositor issue, or your video card / driver? The only other thing i can think is to try the 4.x kernel that's also available in void. My G5's have massive gfx glitches using 5.x kernels, failed boots, random shutdowns, etc. Using the 4.x kernel was the only way for me to have a stable system.

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Ok, thanks for that, wicknix! I will try the Linux 4.x in Void. I never suspected that that would be the issue. But anyway, on MATE in Fienix, there are screen tearing and I believe I was using the same 4.x kernel, but anyway the fienix-gpu-bandage is a patch for G5's Casey Cullen developed to fix MATE's graphical issues Once again, I am probably going to invest in a different graphics card, terrible luck with ATIs for me, unless there is a multi boot for other operating systems, (I am going to say it) MorphOS. Thanks.
 
Weird. I've generally had great luck with Radeon cards on multiple machines and distro's. Are you dead set on Mate? I'd just install xfce or icewm or whatever to bypass the Mate issue. Then again i never really liked gnome or mate to begin with. ;)

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I'm using MATE as an example because that's all Fienix uses. KDE works wonderful and Cinnamon not so well. XFCE is fantastic also, but cannot find volume control. In reality though, mate's kinda blah. Could not figure out LXQT and how to get it working on Void. What's the ideal PCI express graphics card for a quad g5 anyway?
 
As far as web browsers, I found that eolie from gnome handles web sites pretty correctly and you're prolly working on that. In particular, the Apple site and I could even use Facebook!
 
Someone might pipe in on the gfx card. I don't have a clue. My G5's came with the radeon 9600 and geforce 5200 and that's what i use. I also prefer the "less is more" desktops. Lxde and xfce are the heaviest i use on powerpc, and my preferred is icewm.

No, i have nothing to do with Void. I don't even use it. I prefer ubuntu/debian. I only installed void to build my forked browsers because 32-bit void had nothing but severely broken (in epiphany only the left half of websites would display) webkit browsers, and 64-bit at the time (and probably still) had a semi busted FF quantum (bitrotted images and colors). I've read there have been webkit patches since then, but i haven't booted that machine in months to test them.

Cheers
 
wicknix said:
Someone might pipe in on the gfx card. I don't have a clue. My G5's came with the radeon 9600 and geforce 5200 and that's what i use. I also prefer the "less is more" desktops. Lxde and xfce are the heaviest i use on powerpc, and my preferred is icewm.

No, i have nothing to do with Void. I don't even use it. I prefer ubuntu/debian. I only installed void to build my forked browsers because 32-bit void had nothing but severely broken (in epiphany only the left half of websites would display) webkit browsers, and 64-bit at the time (and probably still) had a semi busted FF quantum (bitrotted images and colors). I've read there have been webkit patches since then, but i haven't booted that machine in months to test them.

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