Strange graphics issues on G5 with NVIDIA 6600

[Julio Merino]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 8:23 AM Dennis Clarke via freebsd-ppc <
freebsd-ppc at freebsd.org> wrote:

> <snip>
> >
> > I didn't put any serious effort into resolving the resolution issues, so
> > it might be possible to get it working beyond 640x480. Or maybe there's
> > another card that someone on this list can verify works well?
> >
>
> Off topic slightly but exactly what and how did you even do an install
> on this box?  I have four of these units laying around wherein one of
> them is a workable unit with the so-called "quad" PPC64 config. Not
> much runs on them these days and that includes Debian Linux wherein
> the installer is slightly broken. Slightly. There just is not much in
> the way of resources alive and workingout there that cares to debug
> the multitude of issues we face with this architecture. So I have to
> ask you, what did you use to install FreeBSD on this unit? I have not
> seen a workable installer in at least a year.


In my case, I wrote the memstick ppc64 image into an old 1GB USD drive I
have, plugged that in, and booted with "boot ud:,\\:tbxi". From there,
everything was flawless.