Bug#856821: closed by Ben Hutchings (Re: Bug#856821: firmware-linux-nonfree: romheaders of R420_cp.bin for ati x800 xt agp gfx card in package not OK.)

Hi Ben, Thanks for the reply. Do you think you could show me the steps to obtain gpu microcode for my card via, say, dmidecode, and inject that to get gpu acceleration? Surely there must be some reasonable shortcut short of going heavy into the kernel source. And if, in fact that's necess, is t

Bug#795208: No GUI boot under nouveau, unresponsive Jessie on PowerMac G5 Dual 2.0 with Apple-branded GeForce 6800 Ultra

Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau Version: 1:1.0.11-1 This is a stubborn bug across both Wheezy and now into Jessie. I run a PowerMac G5, dual 2.0 GHz (PowerMac 7,2) with an Apple-branded Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra card with 256 MB memory. In Wheezy, I was lucky enough to have Wheezy generate

Bug#795211: Yaboot in Jessie, following Jessie OS installation, fails to boot Mac OS X

Package: yaboot-installer Version: 1.1.34 This is a bug that appears to crop up in the beginning of the development cycle for a version of (recent) Debians. I run an Apple PowerPC G5 Dual 2.0 with Apple-branded Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra 256 MB graphics. To be clear, this issue is with Jessie’s