Bug#820852: PowerMac G5: cant get GPU acceleration Radeon X800 XT

[Mathieu Malaterre]

On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Mark Balantzyan
<mark.balantzyan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Above all my request is to please get hardware acceleration and usability for the Nvidia 6800 Ultra Apple-branded GeForce. It’s revision 2119 on mine that is having problems (EDID checksum invalid message at boot-time).
>
> The following is a script.log I generated after I put in another card, though. I got hardware acceleration with it (a GeForce 5200 FX Ultra 64 mb). Perhaps there is useful info there nonetheless helpful to seeing into the 6800 issue.
>
> I’m too tired as I’ve taken out and replaced three graphics cards now, amidst digging around for some other stuff, to put back in the 6800 or the Radeon and to run script.log for each of them.
>
> Cheers, and here’s the attachment,

Mark,

You've reported two bugs one for ATI: 820852 and one for nvidia:
795208. You've reported the log file of nvidia to the ati bug report.
Please note that debian kernel (as-is) will not work with nvidia,
unless you recompile it without the PPC_64K_PAGES option.