Apple Cinema Display - display resolutions
  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    ernsteiswuerfel
    Posts: 558 from 2015/6/18
    From: Funeralopolis
    @Andreas_Wolf: Thanks for sharing!

    Didn't even thought about ArchLinux having an unofficial ppc/ppc64-Port, but there it is! Having said that I now recall stumbling over some ppc64 Arch users on upstream Mesa bug trackers but again, I did gave it a 2nd thought. ;-) Have to try that Arch port when I got some more time.

    My experiences with OpenSUSE and Chimera were not as good. They booted somehow but had several glitches. Though that was more than a year ago I last tried them.

    Adelie works, but is a bit cumbersome and rough for the time being.

    T2SDE should work well, regarding how much effort Rene puts in it to run well on alternative archs.

    Gentoo works well for me on ppc/ppc64 for quite some time and cross-building via distcc on faster machines is not too bad. Even rust works well on ppc/ppc64 and both GCC 14 and CLANG 19 got some annoying ppc bugs fixed recently.

    [ Editiert durch ernsteiswuerfel 05.12.2024 - 23:07 ]
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12199 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    > Didn't even thought about ArchLinux having an
    > unofficial ppc/ppc64-Port, but there it is!

    Yes, big-endian PPC64 support was first added in February 2023. In March 2023, I made an edit to reflect that addition (#61) in that other thread. I should probably better have made a new comment ;-)
    (PPC32 support was first added in October 2020, that was when I added ArchPower to that August 2020 RiscySlack comment.)
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    vox
    Posts: 615 from 2003/11/24
    From: Belgrade
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    Andreas_Wolf wrote:



    Not to hijack the thread, but just for my triple boot experiment on G5 iMac
    which one does support Altivec, can use Radeon in iMac 3D and likely via
    Synaptic included can include MATE?
    It would be best if its GRUB could see MorphOS and MacOS X, but I suppoost that aint easy.
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12199 from 2003/5/22
    From: Germany
    >> Essentially all Linux distributions with binaries for PPC64BE (except
    >> Debian-based ones of all things [...]) should be well optimized for
    >> G5/PPC970 (i.e. including AltiVec/VMX support), for instance: [...]

    > which one does support Altivec

    As I wrote, all of those 7 should because they are not Debian-based.

    > can use Radeon in iMac 3D

    They all should.

    > and likely via Synaptic included can include MATE?

    Synaptic is a GUI for package manager APT, which is used on Debian-based distributions. So to me it would seem that Synaptic/APT and AltiVec/VMX are mutually exclusive here. However, MATE desktop doesn't have to be installed by Synaptic/APT but can also be installed by other package managers on distributions not based on Debian. If you follow my links in comment #11, you can see that Adelie Linux even has a PPC64 Live ISO image specifically with MATE (adelie-live-mate-ppc64-[...].iso).

    > It would be best if its GRUB could see MorphOS and MacOS X

    As I told you in that other thread (#6), I recommend to resort to the built-in graphical boot menu of your iMac.
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