MintPPC

[xeno74]

FYI:

I have a working installation of LMDE 6 PPC with the cinnamon desktop now The only thing that needs to be done now is testing on real hardware, as I run this system in QEMU Power10. It is slow as hell.

[Hypex]

So I'm having an issue in Mint. I can't run my boot manager. I've managed to install it fine but zenity doesn't work.

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damien@debian:~$ zenity --about
LLVM ERROR: Relocation type not implemented yet!
Aborted

Maybe should Google it. Never seen that before trying to run binaries! I don't know why it's involving LLVM. Perhaps it's compiled with an ELF that's incompatible. It works on native Debian fine so don't know what's up with it.

Apart from that I thought I'd give Firefox a try. But the latest isn't available. Only the old 53 version. Using Arctic now. Works ok with no security errors yet.

[Hypex]

After another update my graphics is broken again. Testing a fix:

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sudo chmod -r '/usr/lib/xorg/modules/libglamoregl.so' 

[Hypex]

After another update my graphics is broken again. Testing a fix:

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sudo chmod -r '/usr/lib/xorg/modules/libglamoregl.so' 

That hack doesn't work. Lol.

So trying this:

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sudo apt hold xserver-xorg-core
sudo rm /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libglamoregl.so

So far working to prevent the file coming back. The annoying libglamoregl.so file is part of the xserver-xorg-core package. Which cannot be removed by itself.

[xeno74]

Jeroen created a new MintPPC32 root partition image today.

Download: mintppc32-root-sept-2025.img.gz (md5sum: beec1c0756c156f9ae1f357564ec0862) 6.5GB

The uncompressed partition image has a size of 18GB.

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gunzip mintppc32-root-sept-2025.img.gz

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dd if=mintppc32-root-sept-2025.img of=<device node id>

(For example /dev/sda3)

Then you have to mount it and edit the /etc/fstab. (Adding the correct device node id for /)

After a reboot, you can enlarge the file system to its actual size with the following command.

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resize2fs <device node id>

[xeno74]

FYI: Hardware 3D acceleration doesn’t work currently (LLVM issue).

Maybe this helps: Downgrade mesa

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echo '## MintPPC32 additional repository
deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/MintPPC32_additional_repository.asc] http://u58733p55594.web0093.zxcs-klant.nl/mesa ./' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt update
apt install libegl-mesa0=24.1.6-1 libgbm1=24.1.6-1 libgl1-mesa-dri=24.1.6-1 \
libglx-mesa0=24.1.6-1 mesa-va-drivers=24.1.6-1 mesa-vdpau-drivers=24.1.6-1 \
mesa-vulkan-drivers=24.1.6-1
sudo apt hold libegl-mesa0=24.1.6-1 libgbm1=24.1.6-1 libgl1-mesa-dri=24.1.6-1 \
libglx-mesa0=24.1.6-1 mesa-va-drivers=24.1.6-1 mesa-vdpau-drivers=24.1.6-1 \
mesa-vulkan-drivers=24.1.6-1

Link to the repository

[xeno74]

FYI: Hardware 3D acceleration doesn’t work currently (LLVM issue).

Maybe this helps: Downgrade mesa

The mesa script has solved the issue. Hardware 3D acceleration works!

[xeno74]

VLC is available for MintPPC32.

to install in MintPPC:

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apt update
apt install vlc

Let me know if it works, I am curious.

Just for info:

Keyboard configuration:

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apt install console-data

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dpkg-reconfigure console-data

[xeno74]

Instructions for accessing of partitions without password for MintPPC

vi /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.UDisks2.policy

Please change the following policies

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<action id="org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system">
<action id="org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-fstab">
<action id="org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-unmount-others">

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<allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active>

to

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<allow_active>yes</allow_active>

[Hypex]

The mesa script has solved the issue. Hardware 3D acceleration works!

This doesn't work for me:

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Get:6 http://u58733p55594.web0093.zxcs-klant.nl/mesa-64 ./ InRelease [2,086 B]
Err:6 http://u58733p55594.web0093.zxcs-klant.nl/mesa-64 ./ InRelease             
  Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), error message is: Error: Failed to parse keyring "/etc/apt/keyrings/MintPPC64_additional_repository.asc"  Caused by:     0: Reading "/etc/apt/keyrings/MintPPC64_additional_repository.asc": No such file or directory (os error 2)     1: No such file or directory (os error 2)
Hit:7 http://deb.debian.org/debian sid InRelease
Get:8 http://incoming.ports.debian.org/buildd sid/main powerpc Packages [84.0 kB]
Warning: http://u58733p55594.web0093.zxcs-klant.nl/mesa-64/./InRelease: The key(s) in the keyring /etc/apt/keyrings/MintPPC64_additional_repository.asc are ignored as the file is not readable by user executing gpgv.
Warning: OpenPGP signature verification failed: http://u58733p55594.web0093.zxcs-klant.nl/mesa-64 ./ InRelease: Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), error message is: Error: Failed to parse keyring "/etc/apt/keyrings/MintPPC64_additional_repository.asc"  Caused by:     0: Reading "/etc/apt/keyrings/MintPPC64_additional_repository.asc": No such file or directory (os error 2)     1: No such file or directory (os error 2)
Error: The repository 'http://u58733p55594.web0093.zxcs-klant.nl/mesa-64 ./ InRelease' is not signed.