Powermac G4 w/Radeon 9000 accelerated video

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Powermac G4 w/Radeon 9000 accelerated video

Postby billb » 01 May 2011, 01:31

[root@localhost ~]# lspci -v
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0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 If [Radeon 9000] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 If [Radeon 9000]
        Flags: bus master, stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 255, IRQ 48
        Memory at 98000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
        I/O ports at 0400 [size=256]
        Memory at 90000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Expansion ROM at f1000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

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I just got up and running YDL 6.2 today on a Powermac G4 1.25 GHz x2 with 2GB RAM and am having trouble getting accelerated video. lspci -v shows I have a Radeon 9000, but when I go to Administration -> Display it shows Unknown video card. If I select the Radeon 9000 manually and restart X the display has diagonal lines and I still get no accelerated video...

Still this is an interesting machine to play with since I've only used a PS3 on YDL 6.x and it's nice to have the additional RAM available. :mrgreen:

Any suggestions?
PS3 60GB [CECHA01], FW 3.15, YDL 6.2, Samsung T260HD @ 1920x1200
Powermac G4 1.25 GHz x2, 2 GB RAM, YDL 6.2
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Re: Powermac G4 w/Radeon 9000 accelerated video

Postby ppietro » 03 May 2011, 16:20

billb wrote:I just got up and running YDL 6.2 today on a Powermac G4 1.25 GHz x2 with 2GB RAM


Very cool, billb. I don't have any technical advice for you offhand - just wanted say congrats!

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Re: Powermac G4 w/Radeon 9000 accelerated video

Postby G5Rottie » 01 Nov 2011, 05:22

I just installed YDL 6.2 on a PowerMac G5 2Ghz x2 with a radeon 9600 card and had a similar problem. The install defaulted to 640x480 until I changed the video card and display resolution at the same time. After a reboot I am at the correct resolution of 1920x1200. Here are my card specs and the display excerpts from my xorg.conf.

[root@localhost ~]# lspci -v | more
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0000:f0:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon 9600] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc R9600 Pro primary (Asus OEM for HP)
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 16, IRQ 48
        Memory at a0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        I/O ports at 0400 [size=256]
        Memory at 90000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Expansion ROM at f1000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2


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Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        ModelName    "Monitor Model"
 ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
        HorizSync    30.0 - 81.0
        VertRefresh  56.0 - 60.0
        Option      "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"

        #Option "ShadowFB"      "true"
        #Option "fbdev" "/dev/fb0"
        #BusID  "0:0:0"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "radeon"
        Option      "UseFBDev" "true"
        Option      "UseFBDev" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     8
                Modes    "640x400"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     16
                Modes    "640x400"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     24
                Modes    "640x400"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     15
                Modes    "640x400"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Group        0
        Mode         0666
EndSection

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