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Re: MintPPC
Posted: Fri May 30, 2025 10:31 am
by xeno74
FYI:
mintppc wrote: Fri May 30, 2025 9:35 am
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.
Re: MintPPC
Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2025 6:07 pm
by 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.
Re: MintPPC
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2025 7:39 pm
by 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'
Re: MintPPC
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2025 8:27 pm
by Hypex
Hypex wrote: Tue Sep 02, 2025 7:39 pm
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.
Re: MintPPC
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2025 4:30 pm
by 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.
Re: MintPPC
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2025 7:53 am
by 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
Re: MintPPC
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2025 8:07 pm
by xeno74
xeno74 wrote: Mon Sep 15, 2025 7:54 am
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!
Re: MintPPC
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2025 11:05 am
by xeno74
VLC is available for MintPPC32.
mintppc wrote: Tue Sep 16, 2025 7:22 am
to install in MintPPC:
Let me know if it works, I am curious.
Just for info:
Keyboard configuration:
Re: MintPPC
Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2025 1:45 pm
by 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">
from
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<allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active>
to
Re: MintPPC
Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2025 8:01 pm
by Hypex
xeno74 wrote: Mon Sep 15, 2025 8:07 pm
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.