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Void Linux for PowerPC
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At the end of string with "linux" in the beginning. This is for testing purposes.
(M.b. I need to boot mine installation of Void & upgrade it, some time not used it.)
AFAIK - nothing suspicious, no errors. Like it have to work. I don't know how it it working with AGP macs... M.b. try to remove everything about DVI ports in grub & instead try "modeset=1"..?
I can test it in around 5 hours. I see you are from Moscow. So I think you will see my result after sleeping 😉
Look at this, may be it can somehow help.
powerpcliberation.blogspot.com
G5: (And G4) Nouveau Modesetting Bug and Fix Explained
Liberating the greatest computer architecture ever created.
powerpcliberation.blogspot.com
Look at this, may be it can somehow help.
G5: (And G4) Nouveau Modesetting Bug and Fix Explained
Liberating the greatest computer architecture ever created.
This is for 2D acceleration. 2D is working. If I understand it right, this problem was fixed in October 2015
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no effect with
video=TV-1:d video=TV-2:d video=offb
ff nosplash modeset=1OpenGL stay on llmv
If you remove this: "video=TV-1:d video=TV-2:d video=offbff nosplash" but leave "modeset" - what happens? No X11 at all?
ff nosplash" but leave "modeset" - what happens? No X11 at all?Hey all, long time no post.
So I have been trying, desperately, to get Void PPC onto either of my Powerbooks, to no avail. I've read through most of the thread, but a lot of it has been successful installs and helpful hints.
I have a Powerbook3,2, 500MHz Titanium; maxed RAM (1GB) and mSATA to IDE 60GB SSD. And a Powerbook5,6, 1.67GHz; also max RAM (2GB) and mSATA to IDE 60GB SSD.
The TiBook will sort of boot using either the 4.4 or 5.13 kernel. It will get to the point where you can login, but then the screen starts flashing and you can't do anything. I try to login, in case the screen or framebuffer are having conniptions, but if I press the power button it goes through the shutdown sequence. There, I can see some kind of error when previously typing at the login prompt, but it actually shuts down before I have a chance to read what it says.
I have used several variations of adding to the long string in GRUB: video=aty128fb:vmode:x I have tried 6, 8, 9, 10, 11 from this page also to no avail. Different resolutions and framerates don't seem to matter.
I did get into the installer once but I have no idea how, and I dun did f'ed up something with the install, so I've put that whole thing to the side for now.
For my PB5,6, no matter how I switch the slashes, no matter which of the 2 USB ports I use, no matter how I write the Void PPC ISO (either XFCE or plain CLI), this thing just starts loading for about 2 seconds, then the 'no smoking' or 'prohibitory' sign pops up. There is some code popping up just before that, but it's too fast for me to read.
That's it.
I know Linux will kinda work on it, as I installed an old Ubuntu PPC on it a long long time ago. But it's running OSX right now, and refuses to boot from the USB drive.
I have used both void-live-ppc-20210825-xfce.iso and void-live-ppc-20210825.iso on a 16GB Sandisk USB3 drive that I've literally had no issues with booting modern x86 Macs from. Not sure if that's the issue, but I don't have too many smaller capacity, or USB2-only drives lying around.
I've tried good ol dd (with the recommended wipefs -a /dev/sdX prior), Rufus on Windows, BalenaEtcher on both Windows and Linux. I haven't tried from OSX as yet, from the one Powerbook still running it, but I could definitely try.
I believe both will boot from DVD, but I haven't really tested that (yet) as I don't know if I have any RW discs. Plus both have had issues in the past loading and ejecting discs, so I am not sure I want to go that route.
Any ideas? I'm not at my wits' end, just....kind of confused after seeing others in the thread having great success, sometimes on similar enough models to mine.
So I have been trying, desperately, to get Void PPC onto either of my Powerbooks, to no avail. I've read through most of the thread, but a lot of it has been successful installs and helpful hints.
I have a Powerbook3,2, 500MHz Titanium; maxed RAM (1GB) and mSATA to IDE 60GB SSD. And a Powerbook5,6, 1.67GHz; also max RAM (2GB) and mSATA to IDE 60GB SSD.
The TiBook will sort of boot using either the 4.4 or 5.13 kernel. It will get to the point where you can login, but then the screen starts flashing and you can't do anything. I try to login, in case the screen or framebuffer are having conniptions, but if I press the power button it goes through the shutdown sequence. There, I can see some kind of error when previously typing at the login prompt, but it actually shuts down before I have a chance to read what it says.
I have used several variations of adding to the long string in GRUB: video=aty128fb:vmode:x I have tried 6, 8, 9, 10, 11 from this page also to no avail. Different resolutions and framerates don't seem to matter.
I did get into the installer once but I have no idea how, and I dun did f'ed up something with the install, so I've put that whole thing to the side for now.
For my PB5,6, no matter how I switch the slashes, no matter which of the 2 USB ports I use, no matter how I write the Void PPC ISO (either XFCE or plain CLI), this thing just starts loading for about 2 seconds, then the 'no smoking' or 'prohibitory' sign pops up. There is some code popping up just before that, but it's too fast for me to read.
That's it.
I know Linux will kinda work on it, as I installed an old Ubuntu PPC on it a long long time ago. But it's running OSX right now, and refuses to boot from the USB drive.
I have used both void-live-ppc-20210825-xfce.iso and void-live-ppc-20210825.iso on a 16GB Sandisk USB3 drive that I've literally had no issues with booting modern x86 Macs from. Not sure if that's the issue, but I don't have too many smaller capacity, or USB2-only drives lying around.
I've tried good ol dd (with the recommended wipefs -a /dev/sdX prior), Rufus on Windows, BalenaEtcher on both Windows and Linux. I haven't tried from OSX as yet, from the one Powerbook still running it, but I could definitely try.
I believe both will boot from DVD, but I haven't really tested that (yet) as I don't know if I have any RW discs. Plus both have had issues in the past loading and ejecting discs, so I am not sure I want to go that route.
Any ideas? I'm not at my wits' end, just....kind of confused after seeing others in the thread having great success, sometimes on similar enough models to mine.
Normally nothing is modified in GRUB, but in must create /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nouveau.conf to aktivate "ShadowFB" "1"If you remove this: "video=TV-1:d video=TV-2:d video=offb
else i get this: #449
modeset=1 only also has no effect on the OpenGL driver
i just don't understand, why you get the OpenGL support and i don't… misterious 🙃
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Hi
I don't have any of your models of PowerBook, the only that's working and with 10.5 Leopard and Void it's my PowerBook5,9 - A1139 but I didn't have any problems to install. Also I don't have any modern USB flash drives (the only one that survived after all these years are an Kingston 8GB USB2.0 and it worked in all PPC and x86 machines) except my OWC Mercury On-The-Go Pro that I bought for easily using with my PPC machines because of the FireWire interface, but in every machine that I tested with USB worked fine if I use the correct sintax.
I don't have any experience preparing USB devices for PPC machines in Windows, but in Linux x86_64 (Also using Void) worked just fine (Just follow the guide that work for me), but if I don't have access to other x86 machine I use OSX for preparing my USB boot. In OSX I use the following commands
1) Identify your USB device
Code:
diskutil list2) Unmount to continue the procedure (replacinf the "dev/disk2" for what it's equivalent on your case)
Code:
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk23) dd the iso to the USB (replacing the "username", "file name" and "dev/disk2" for what it's on your case)
Code:
sudo dd bs=4m if=/Users/dextructor/Desktop/Void\ Linux/void-live-ppc-musl-20200411-xfce.iso of=/dev/disk2The process on OSX takes more time that if you do on the same machine using Linux, so be patient. If you follow the boot instructions correctly that should be enough to at least the PowerBook5,6 - A1106 to work since it looks a common compatible hardware (and shouldn't require any additional arguments to boot). The PowerBook3,2 - M5884 I don't have any experience with this hardware and may need some check on the graphics or troubleshoot pages to help you guide.
I don't like so much to use optical media to boot since it's very slow and you need a very reliable media and drive (I really don't think that many apple drives are reliable at all) but I have many issues trying to make an MorphOS USB (I'll try again with more time to troubleshoot my mistakes) and in this case I use it anyway.
So use the official documentation because the devs put a great time to be really useful and mostly cover many scenarios, and this thread that have some good knowledge too that in some time be merged to the documentation
Hope that it help's you
Different hardware (mine is QUAD, PCI-Ex) at least
. I'm currently not in Void (Gentoo as for now), m.b. later boot it.BTW, found a quick & dirty hack to use Arcticfox from Debian in Gentoo. https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-914534.html
Besause Firefox just can't be built no matter how hard I try. (Last attempt made entire system hardly hang.)
System:
Kernel: 5.12.9_1 ppc64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinux-5.12.9_1
root=UUID=a974e173-8440-4b46-bddd-06a24a7c1fc9 ro net.ifnames=0
Console: tty pts/3 DM: LXDM Distro: void
ls -la /etc/X11/
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drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 сен 1 2019 .
drwxr-xr-x 58 root root 4096 сен 28 2021 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24 апр 19 14:51 Xwrapper.config
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 сен 1 2019 xinit
BTW, you can place config for video not only in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d, but else at /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/. Anyway, I have nothing in both places about GeForce.
Mmmm, native OpenGL would be nice for Video Player but not nessesary (Player under OSX are much faster)
I think i must live with it.
Perhaps you can help me with my login screen, keyboard is set to german, but after boot it is always english.
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What about mpv? After I discovered it for myself, all other players just became pale shadows
.What's wrong with your keyboard? I'm using 2 languages, En & Ru. No troubles at login screen, it's En by default, I can switch to Ru anytime. Check about localization at Void official site. (I've done this so long time ago, can't even remember what required to be done
).Btw, have you tried Debian?
At least in my iMac G5 CorePlayer in OSX could play an trully 1080p 30fps h264 (with supported audio track, because CorePlayer it's too much picky about that) without any frameskip, in Linux no matter how much I tune the config on mpv the same video have more frameskips that I could stand (looks like the Radeon X600 XT can't help much in this department). 720p plays in mpv taxing CPU about 50%, but no problems (I still have to test 720p 60fps h264). But h265 no way in hell, even a 480p in Linux it's too much choppy and CPU go nuts. So CorePlayer has many flaws (poor support for audio tracks, no subtitle support, random crashes) but it can leverage the PPC AltiVec (I think that it's the secret to why it plays so smooth) like no one ever does.What about mpv? After I discovered it for myself, all other players just became pale shadows
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MVP is a joke against Coreplayer under OSX. Void is interesting for me because you get a newer browser, newer Handbrake version and some other video tools in newer versions (just for fun, I have a Mac Pro too).What about mpv? After I discovered it for myself, all other players just became pale shadows
What's wrong with your keyboard? I'm using 2 languages, En & Ru. No troubles at login screen, it's En by default, I can switch to Ru anytime. Check about localization at Void official site. (I've done this so long time ago, can't even remember what required to be done
Btw, have you tried Debian?
I have a language selector too, but set on German I get the US layout after a boot. When log out the user, the login screen is with German keyboard layout.
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Hm...I do have a Firewire (supposedly bootable) external hard drive, so I guess that's the next attempt.
And the dd commands are very similar to OSX/macOS, in Linux.
Otherwise, I might have to track down a pure USB2 4 or 8GB drive to get this to work correctly, at least on the PPC hardware I've got.
For now the PB5,6 still has Mac OSX 10.6.8, I think, so I can try there as well.
Excuse me, but you compare "soft" with "warm" (it's more or less modern Russian saying
).
Well, we all know that there are NO proprietary video drivers for PPC64 linux. If only I could use amdgpu with secondary PC videocard...
I don't get what's the point of using the proprietary drivers, there are any real benefits that the opensource doesn't?
Do yourself a favor and use the firewire drive. It's so much easy to not have to do all the commands on openfirmware to find the USB address and after tell to boot etc (at least G5's are a little bit easy, but still a single command on openfirmware insted selecting on boot menu)
The dd commands are similar, but if you try on Linux the OSX command it won't work (and I believe the oposite it's also true) because each one have different dd versions (OSX being much older version, then older sintaxes etc)
I didn't find the saying, could you explain more? I really like some Russian knowledgeExcuse me, but you compare "soft" with "warm" (it's more or less modern Russian saying
Try to google a bit to distinguish difference from nvidia amd64 driver and nouveau open-source one.
AFAIK - Linuxes better boots from USB (CD, flash-drives), Mac OS - from FireWire. (Some linux distros just don't bother to include firewire & hfs kernel modules and can't find own installer
).As I mentioned earlier - this saying appeared around 20 (or even less) years ago
. Literally, it means that somebody tries to compare quite different things. Which at first glance seems similar. (With this forum I'm starting to think in English sometime. )