PowerMac G5 Quad Issue reporting

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Wed Jan 21 17:39:50 AEDT 2015


On 20.01.2015 20:52, luigi burdo wrote:
> Hello all LinuxPPc Developer,
> need to report a issue that im facing from kernel 3.16 and up.
> 
> The fans of powermac g5 quad start boosting like a turbo jet after the
> system is
> been loaded and up.
> Usually this become after about 30-60 seconds when the system is loaded.

You need to load the i2c_powermac kernel module.


> Need to report to Michel D. from amd.com . The RadeonHD 6570 now is
> working on PowerMac G5 too
> look like the Xorg bigendian  issue related Evergreen / Northern  is
> been fixed ;-)

Xorg itself has always been working, only OpenGL can be problematic.
Have you verified r600_dri.so is used for that?


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