ppc March 2006

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FC5 Dual Head Support
by Brian D. Carlstrom 31 Mar '06

31 Mar '06

I have have two recent G5s, one Quad 2.5GHz G5 PowerPCs and one Dual 2.7GHz G5 PowerPCs. I installed FC5 on them recently and I'm trying to get at least one of them running dual head. The Quad has an NVIDIA GeForce 6600. Although there was an issue with some unreadable text during the graphical install, things are fine post installation with an increased color depth. From what I read, one head is as good as it will get. That is, the nv driver will not support dual head and there is no way to use something like fbdev to run two heads on one nv card. If someone could confirm this, I would appreciate it. The Dual has an ATI Radeon 9600T. Under FC4, I'm pretty sure we had the "radeon" driver working, but regrettably I didn't save the xorg.conf file. Graphic install would not work and after fighting with all day, we have it running with the fbdev drivier. Basically we ended up running the YDL 4.1 install disk and looking at the xorg configuration file they used to get the graphical installer running. However, I am assuming that I can't run dual head with fbdev, so now I'm stuck. If I try to run with the "radeon" driver, the machine hangs. not just no video, which I've had before with inproper monitor settings, but complete death as it stops responding to ping and I can't ssh login or ctrl-alt-del the machine. This seems to be a problem with the "radeon" driver in xorg 7.0.0, as discussed here: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-driver-ati/+bug/3… Anyone out there have dual head working with a PowerMac G5 Desktop and FC5? I have some older machines I could try if anyone has it working on a slightly different box. -bri

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FC5 with bcm43xx support
by Robert Allerstorfer 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Hi, are there any step-by-step instructions on how to enable bcm43xx support on Fedora Core 5 ppc? I think the default 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 kernel should be good. Thanks! rob. --

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snd-powermac not loaded in FC5
by Fredrik Orderud 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

There is an unresolved issue which prevents "snd-powermac" from automatically loading in FC5 on Apple Macintosh computers. This module must therefore be loaded manually to enable sound. Quick-fix: Add the following line to "/etc/sysconfig/modules/udev-stw.modules": /sbin/modprobe snd-powermac Could someone please update the "PPC-issues" wikipage and/or FC5 Release Notes to inform PPC-users of this problem? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/ArchSpecific/PPC http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc5/ References: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=176761 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178466 Problem is also reproduced on my mac mini computer. mvh. Fredrik Orderud

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YDL 4.1 has gone public.
by Brian Durant 09 Mar '06

09 Mar '06

YDL 4.1, code named Sagitta, has gone public. Direct download URLs can be found at Distrowatch. Brian

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New FC4+updates tree (working Thunderbird, dual-core G5 support)
by David Woodhouse 05 Mar '06

05 Mar '06

ftp://zeniv.uk.linux.org/pub/people/dwmw2/fc4-pegasos-20060304 More usefully, use whatever you have locally as seed and fetch it from rsync://zeniv.uk.linux.org/ftp/pub/people/dwmw2/fc4-pegasos-20060304 It should hopefully manage to install on the new dual-core G5 machines, and it also has a rebuilt Thunderbird package, which we've been waiting for for a number of months. This still isn't an _official_ update but it does the job. I'd very much like to hear from you if you tried it on a dual-core G5. Especially if it worked. -- dwmw2

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