• ATI mach64 driver disappeared

    From Riccardo Mottola@21:1/5 to All on Mon Sep 12 09:10:01 2022
    Hello,

    I did a major dist-upgrade on my old iBook G3 clamshell. It wasn't
    without minor hiccups... perhaps also because I didn't do it in many months.
    I suppose open-jdk and all the related java studd don't work properly
    because the failed to configure, however, I never used them but were
    only a suggested dependency of the TeX system, so I removed them from
    now. Some good space saving on the small SSD I have.

    My major problem is that the Xorg ATI mach64 "legacy" driver
    disappeared. How can I get it back?
    The apt-get apparently unistalled the old one and no new package is in
    the repositories.

    Riccardo

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  • From John Paul Adrian Glaubitz@21:1/5 to John Paul Adrian Glaubitz on Mon Sep 12 09:40:01 2022
    Hi!

    On 9/12/22 09:21, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
    @Adrian: Could you update the upstream version to 6.9.7?

    Just verified that updating to upstream version 6.9.7 fixes the build
    problem for me:

    Build Architecture: amd64
    Build Type: any
    Build-Space: 16676
    Build-Time: 26
    Distribution: unstable
    Host Architecture: amd64
    Install-Time: 42
    Job: /home/glaubitz/debian/ports/xserver-xorg-video-mach64/xserver-xorg-video-mach64_6.9.7-1.dsc
    Lintian: warn
    Machine Architecture: amd64
    Package: xserver-xorg-video-mach64
    Package-Time: 105
    Source-Version: 6.9.7-1
    Space: 16676
    Status: successful
    Version: 6.9.7-1

    Adrian

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  • From John Paul Adrian Glaubitz@21:1/5 to Riccardo Mottola on Mon Sep 12 09:30:01 2022
    Hi!

    On 9/12/22 09:07, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
    My major problem is that the Xorg ATI mach64 "legacy" driver
    disappeared. How can I get it back?
    The apt-get apparently unistalled the old one and no new package is in
    the repositories.

    There is an FTBFS with the driver that needs to be fixed [1].

    However, there is an upstream patch available that fixes the issue plus
    there is also a newer upstream version available [2] which should fix the problem as well [3].

    @Adrian: Could you update the upstream version to 6.9.7?

    Adrian

    [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1005462
    [2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-mach64/-/commit/3ab2c144ef34199ceaf95115538a67f932e76f7d
    [3] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-mach64

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  • From John Paul Adrian Glaubitz@21:1/5 to Riccardo Mottola on Mon Sep 12 11:40:01 2022
    On 9/12/22 11:32, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
    We are now at abi-25. So a rbuild with the fix is needed.

    No, updating the package to the upstream version 6.9.7 would be
    the proper way to go.

    Adrian

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  • From Riccardo Mottola@21:1/5 to John Paul Adrian Glaubitz on Mon Nov 14 23:50:01 2022
    Hi Adrian & Adrian,

    did you make the driver available somewhere?

    I just tried an update today and same old issue:

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
     xserver-xorg-video-mach64 : Depends: xorg-video-abi-24 but it is not installable
    E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages
    (or specify a solution).


    Thanks,
    Riccardo

    John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
    Hi!

    On 9/12/22 09:21, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
    @Adrian: Could you update the upstream version to 6.9.7?

    Just verified that updating to upstream version 6.9.7 fixes the build
    problem for me:

    Build Architecture: amd64
    Build Type: any
    Build-Space: 16676
    Build-Time: 26
    Distribution: unstable
    Host Architecture: amd64
    Install-Time: 42
    Job: /home/glaubitz/debian/ports/xserver-xorg-video-mach64/xserver-xorg-video-mach64_6.9.7-1.dsc
    Lintian: warn
    Machine Architecture: amd64
    Package: xserver-xorg-video-mach64
    Package-Time: 105
    Source-Version: 6.9.7-1
    Space: 16676
    Status: successful
    Version: 6.9.7-1

    Adrian


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  • From John Paul Adrian Glaubitz@21:1/5 to Riccardo Mottola on Thu Nov 17 19:40:01 2022
    Hi Riccardo!

    On 11/14/22 23:32, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
    did you make the driver available somewhere?

    I just tried an update today and same old issue:

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    xserver-xorg-video-mach64 : Depends: xorg-video-abi-24 but it is not installable
    E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

    Works fine here. Did you forget to run "apt update" or update the GPG keys for APT?

    Adrian

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  • From Riccardo Mottola@21:1/5 to John Paul Adrian Glaubitz on Sun Nov 27 00:00:02 2022
    This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
    Hi Adrian(s)!

    On 11/17/22 19:35, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
    Hi Riccardo!

    On 11/14/22 23:32, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
    did you make the driver available somewhere?

    I just tried an update today and same old issue:

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
      xserver-xorg-video-mach64 : Depends: xorg-video-abi-24 but it is
    not installable
    E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no
    packages (or specify a solution).

    Works fine here. Did you forget to run "apt update" or update the GPG
    keys for APT?


    no, I didn't forget. I did apt-get update and it still stuck and so it
    happened several times, apt --fix also.

    However, using aptitude, dependencies got fixed differently and a newer
    version of both xserver-xorg-video-mach64 and xorg server where pulled
    in. hundreds of packages and like 2 GBytes of packages unlocked. I took
    quite some time on the old iBook even with an SSD, but then, next
    reboot, all there: new kernel, X11 working!

    I updated GNUstep from sources and tested. Things are not perfect.

    Xorg takes a long time to come up, windowmaker and xterm show, but all
    GNUstep apps have some glitches in drawing of windows around the window decorations. like some update events where missing. Instead of window
    borders I see garbage data, and the window content looks a bit shifted,
    but the rest is correct.

    I will test other apps and also try to understand more. I will try
    switching between 16 and 24 bits. I hope it is not more bitrot in the
    old driver, I already had to disable most of its acceleration.


    Riccardo


    PS: screenshot pictures posted on the linux ppc facebook group.

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    <p>Hi Adrian(s)!<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/17/22 19:35, John Paul Adrian
    Glaubitz wrote:<br>
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    <blockquote type="cite"
    cite="mid:[email protected]">Hi
    Riccardo!
    <br>
    <br>
    On 11/14/22 23:32, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
    <br>
    <blockquote type="cite" style="color: #007cff;">did you make the
    driver available somewhere?
    <br>
    <br>
    I just tried an update today and same old issue:
    <br>
    <br>
    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    <br>
      xserver-xorg-video-mach64 : Depends: xorg-video-abi-24 but it
    is not installable
    <br>
    E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no
    packages (or specify a solution).
    <br>
    </blockquote>
    <br>
    Works fine here. Did you forget to run "apt update" or update the
    GPG keys for APT?
    </blockquote>
    <p><br>
    </p>
    <p>no, I didn't forget. I did apt-get update and it still stuck and
    so it happened several times, apt --fix also.</p>
    <p>However, using aptitude, dependencies got fixed differently and a
    newer version of both xserver-xorg-video-mach64 and xorg server
    where pulled in. hundreds of packages and like 2 GBytes of
    packages unlocked. I took quite some time on the old iBook even
    with an SSD, but then, next reboot, all there: new kernel, X11
    working!</p>
    <p>I updated GNUstep from sources and tested. Things are not
    perfect.</p>
    <p>Xorg takes a long time to come up, windowmaker and xterm show,
    but all GNUstep apps have some glitches in drawing of windows
    around the window decorations. like some update events where
    missing. Instead of window borders I see garbage data, and the
    window content looks a bit shifted, but the rest is correct.</p>
    <p>I will test other apps and also try to understand more. I will
    try switching between 16 and 24 bits. I hope it is not more bitrot
    in the old driver, I already had to disable most of its
    acceleration.</p>
    <p><br>
    </p>
    <p>Riccardo</p>
    <p><br>
    </p>
    <p>PS: screenshot pictures posted on the linux ppc facebook group.<br>
    </p>
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