Strange graphics issues on G5 with NVIDIA 6600

[Jason Bacon]

On 1/12/21 10:22 AM, Dennis Clarke via freebsd-ppc wrote:
> <snip>
>> 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.
>
>
>
FreeBSD 12.1 install was a pretty straightforward from a USB stick, 
though as I recall the G5s are fussy about USB sticks, e.g. they don't 
recognize U3 flash drives.  Install from CD should work as well.

Then "pkg install desktop-installer" and "desktop-installer" to set up 
the GUI.

Lumina desktop works well on these systems.  It's probably the fastest 
full-blown DE.  LXDE was really sluggish on my iMac for some reason.

Some runaway fan issues on the PowerMac that are reportedly avoided by 
disabling SMP.

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