Some people report that openGL is no longer working in current Debian sid. For those of you who would like to downgrade mesa to 24.1.6 (reported to still work for powerpc) can do the following.
Download the mesa script and perform it as sudo. The script will add an entry for an extra repository hosted on this website for the mesa packages. It will downgrade the mesa packages. Furthermore the script will hold those packages from being automatically upgraded.
MintPPC32:wget https://u58733p55594.web0093.zxcs-klant.nl/mesa/mesachmod u+x mesasudo ./mesa
MintPPC64:wget https://u58733p55594.web0093.zxcs-klant.nl/mesa-64/mesa-64
chmod u+x mesa-64
sudo ./mesa-64
This fix will not work in plain Debian as in plain Debian the public key for the MintPPC repository is missing. One has to first import the key (see manual installation MintPPC).
Now glxinfo works again and those softwares which require opengl work normally. Thank for hard work.
Excellent!
Here you can see the discussion, especially the recent bug report filed by Ed Robbins.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/?label_name=big+endian
Is there any chance to get solution for ppc64?
I will do it soon. I will post an update in the post when it’s done.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! It works!!
I have another question about youtube on ppc64. Is there any way to get it on ppc64?
I have no idea. Places to ask Macrumors PowerPC forum [1] and X5000 linux hyperion-entertainment forum [2].
1. https://forums.macrumors.com/forums/powerpc-macs.145/
2. https://forum.hyperion-entertainment.com/viewforum.php?f=58
You might want to try yt-dlp, it’s in Debian.
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
I am trying to build minitube. I had it in the first few versions of MintPPC, a very neat little program to watch youtube videos. It does not require flash 🙂
https://flavio.tordini.org/minitube