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Erik de Castro Lopo | 5 Feb 07:06
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Getting cdrom open on G5 running debian.

Hi all,

It seems I've messed up yaboot on a G5 running debian. anyone know how
I get the cdrom door open to boot from cdrom? I'm using a standard PC
usb keyboard.

Cheers,
Erik
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Erik de Castro Lopo | 5 Feb 07:42
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Re: Getting cdrom open on G5 running debian.

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

> It seems I've messed up yaboot on a G5 running debian. anyone know how
> I get the cdrom door open to boot from cdrom? I'm using a standard PC
> usb keyboard.

Ah, got it.

The little aluminium door can be physically slid down to expose the cdrom
drive and then a paper clip can be inserted in the hole to force the
door open.

Now to make this machine boot properly again.

Erik
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Risto Suominen | 5 Feb 09:17
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Re: Getting cdrom open on G5 running debian.

2012/2/5, Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+debian <at> mega-nerd.com>:
> Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>
>> It seems I've messed up yaboot on a G5 running debian. anyone know how
>> I get the cdrom door open to boot from cdrom? I'm using a standard PC
>> usb keyboard.
>
> Ah, got it.
>
> The little aluminium door can be physically slid down to expose the cdrom
> drive and then a paper clip can be inserted in the hole to force the
> door open.
>
Or you could boot into Open Firmware (Cmd-Opt-O-F) and type 'eject
cd'. And then boot with 'boot cd:,\\:tbxi'.

Risto
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MiB | 5 Feb 10:44
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Re: Getting cdrom open on G5 running debian.


5 feb 2012 kl. 07.06 skrev Erik de Castro Lopo:

> It seems I've messed up yaboot on a G5 running debian. anyone know how
> I get the cdrom door open to boot from cdrom? I'm using a standard PC
> usb keyboard.

I'm not sure if holding the mouse button down during upstart works  
without OS X, but that is the simplest I think.

/MiB
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Mark Benson | 5 Feb 16:03
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Re: Getting cdrom open on G5 running debian.


On 5 Feb 2012, at 09:44, MiB wrote:

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> 5 feb 2012 kl. 07.06 skrev Erik de Castro Lopo:
> 
>> It seems I've messed up yaboot on a G5 running debian. anyone know how
>> I get the cdrom door open to boot from cdrom? I'm using a standard PC
>> usb keyboard.
> 
> I'm not sure if holding the mouse button down during upstart works without OS X, but that is the simplest I think.

The hold-mouse-to-eject-all feature is a firmware feature that's been
part of the Mac since way-back. It used to be the defacto way to eject
a floppy disk that wouldn't eject at the desktop :)

I am pretty sure it works on all PowerPC machines, regardless of the OS.

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szukw000 | 15 Feb 20:06
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graphics card for PowerPC G5 and debian-6.0.3-ppc

I have debian-6.0.3-ppc installed on a PowerMac G5.

The graphics card used is a ATI Radeon 9600 AP (AGP)
with one backward key(1.5V key).

The board has one AGP slot; and 3 PCI slots (length ~125 mm).

1. Is it possible to use a Radeon HD 5450 PCI card with 
   debian-6.0.3-ppc?

2. Is it possible to use a GeForce 6800GT AGP card with
   debian-6.0.3-ppc? This card has one backward key(1.5V key)
   like the ATI Radeon 9600.

3. Must I buy a completely other card?     

winfried
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Lennart Sorensen | 15 Feb 20:18
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Re: graphics card for PowerPC G5 and debian-6.0.3-ppc

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 08:06:26PM +0100, szukw000 <at> arcor.de wrote:
> I have debian-6.0.3-ppc installed on a PowerMac G5.
> 
> The graphics card used is a ATI Radeon 9600 AP (AGP)
> with one backward key(1.5V key).
> 
> The board has one AGP slot; and 3 PCI slots (length ~125 mm).
> 
> 1. Is it possible to use a Radeon HD 5450 PCI card with 
>    debian-6.0.3-ppc?
> 
> 2. Is it possible to use a GeForce 6800GT AGP card with
>    debian-6.0.3-ppc? This card has one backward key(1.5V key)
>    like the ATI Radeon 9600.
> 
> 3. Must I buy a completely other card?     

My understanding is that you need a card with Mac compatible firmware
on it.  A PC card will not work.  There are people that have managed to
modify the firmware on PC cards to make them work in Macs, but I have
no idea where to get info on doing that.

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Michel Dänzer | 16 Feb 09:58
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Re: graphics card for PowerPC G5 and debian-6.0.3-ppc

On Mit, 2012-02-15 at 14:18 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: 
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 08:06:26PM +0100, szukw000 <at> arcor.de wrote:
> > I have debian-6.0.3-ppc installed on a PowerMac G5.
> > 
> > The graphics card used is a ATI Radeon 9600 AP (AGP)
> > with one backward key(1.5V key).
> > 
> > The board has one AGP slot; and 3 PCI slots (length ~125 mm).
> > 
> > 1. Is it possible to use a Radeon HD 5450 PCI card with 
> >    debian-6.0.3-ppc?
> > 
> > [...]
> 
> My understanding is that you need a card with Mac compatible firmware
> on it.  A PC card will not work.

For Radeons, that's only true for older cards without ATOM BIOS,
basically anything older than Radeon X1xxx. So this shouldn't be a
problem for a Radeon HD 5450, but there might be other issues, e.g. the
drivers in the stable release might be too old to properly support that
card.

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