iMac G5 iSight fails to boot when linux-firmware-nonfree installed. Radeon issue?

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11-28-2012, 02:14 PM	#1
Joe of Loath Member Registered: Dec 2009 Location: Bristol, UK Distribution: Ubuntu, Debian, Arch. Posts: 152 Rep:	iMac G5 iSight fails to boot when linux-firmware-nonfree installed. Radeon issue? Hey there Rescued an iMac G5 iSight (Model A1144) from a bin a few weeks back. It works fine (barring the ubiquitous stripy screen). After failing to get Ubuntu working I installed Debian, which works perfectly, although in Gnome I'm getting a few graphical anomalies, pictured here: http://i.imgur.com/fPeup.png I read that I needed to install the linux-firmware-nonfree package to get the Radeon driver working properly, but doing so caused the computer to crash on boot. No Xorg log, can't ctrl-alt-F1 etc. Any idea what's going on?

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