Strange graphics issues on G5 with NVIDIA 6600

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 1/12/21 11:22 AM, Dennis Clarke via freebsd-ppc wrote:
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>> I didn't put any serious effort into resolving the resolution issues, so
>> it might be possible to get it working beyond 640x480. Or maybe there's
>> another card that someone on this list can verify works well?
>>
> Off topic slightly but exactly what and how did you even do an install
> on this box?  I have four of these units laying around wherein one of
> them is a workable unit with the so-called "quad" PPC64 config. Not
> much runs on them these days and that includes Debian Linux wherein
> the installer is slightly broken. Slightly. There just is not much in
> the way of resources alive and workingout there that cares to debug
> the multitude of issues we face with this architecture. So I have to
> ask you, what did you use to install FreeBSD on this unit? I have not
> seen a workable installer in at least a year.
>
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Does the release CD not work? I used that a couple months ago without issue.
-Nathan