G5 Quad working with Linux PPC and RadeonHD

G5 Quad working with Linux PPC and RadeonHD

[Luigi Burdo]

Hi all i start one week ago to write massage in ubuntu about
my object i have  Radeon Hd working on my Quad G5 thanks to linuxPPC .

But there are some things to fix
One RadeonHD mesa colors are wrong .

On RadeonHD 4650 ddr3 512mb i have full video acceleration and hdmi 
audio working
On RadeonHD 6570 ddr3 2048mb i have video but no chars on windows and 
icons .

this is my thread on ubuntu forum Apple User in lubuntu
there are all my experieces and the bugs found ...
too much things to write on a single email


http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2221421&page=6


Thanks for all !
Luigi

Re: G5 Quad working with Linux PPC and RadeonHD

[Michel Dänzer]

On 16.05.2014 19:31, Luigi Burdo wrote:
> Hi all i start one week ago to write massage in ubuntu about
> my object i have  Radeon Hd working on my Quad G5 thanks to linuxPPC .
> 
> But there are some things to fix
> One RadeonHD mesa colors are wrong .

See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72877 . No progress yet
unfortunately.


> On RadeonHD 4650 ddr3 512mb i have full video acceleration and hdmi
> audio working
> On RadeonHD 6570 ddr3 2048mb i have video but no chars on windows and
> icons .

The latter sounds like
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74939 , which is fixed in
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/commit/?id=8da17f30c70f4494ce22ad781a1cee17041812f3
.


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Libre software enthusiast          |                Mesa and X developer

Re: G5 Quad working with Linux PPC and RadeonHD

[Luigi Burdo]

Hi Michel D=C3=A4nzer thanks for your explanation about .
About the first post

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D72877

Christian (Xeno74) had been success to have the right mesa/gl colors on
X1000 machine he make a patch about =2C i tested his package on QuadG5
but no effect probably something is different in kernel/hardware (?!?)

about the second
on X1000 r600 boards dont gave decoration problems
there is probably needed some other trick about
for the other architecture.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D74939


In any way thanks alot for the infos and for the works
the PPC linux staff is doing :)

Luigi

Il 17/05/14 05:53=2C Michel D=C3=A4nzer ha scritto:
> On 16.05.2014 19:31=2C Luigi Burdo wrote:
>> Hi all i start one week ago to write massage in ubuntu about
>> my object i have  Radeon Hd working on my Quad G5 thanks to linuxPPC .
>>
>> But there are some things to fix
>> One RadeonHD mesa colors are wrong .
> See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D72877 . No progress ye=
t
> unfortunately.
>
>
>> On RadeonHD 4650 ddr3 512mb i have full video acceleration and hdmi
>> audio working
>> On RadeonHD 6570 ddr3 2048mb i have video but no chars on windows and
>> icons .
> The latter sounds like
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D74939 =2C which is fixed i=
n
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/commit/?id=3D8da17=
f30c70f4494ce22ad781a1cee17041812f3
> .
>
>

Re: G5 Quad working with Linux PPC and RadeonHD

[Michel Dänzer]

On 17.05.2014 17:28, Luigi Burdo wrote:
> 
> on X1000 r600 boards dont gave decoration problems
> there is probably needed some other trick about
> for the other architecture.
> 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74939

That bug is specific to Evergreen / Northern Islands family cards, which
includes your 6570, but not your 4650 for example.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer            |                  http://www.amd.com
Libre software enthusiast          |                Mesa and X developer