Ken Moffat wrote: > For my sins, I bought a G5 powermac a few years ago, just after > they were discontinued - I wanted a big-endian 64-bit machine, and > was able to get a refurb. Unfortunately, it's one of the last of > the single-processor G5s (terribly slow) with an nvidia AGP graphics > card (GeForce Fx 5200 Ultra, or NV34). > > For some time, I've been hoping to try nouveau on this machine, but > other things have kept me away - it was only last week that I got > its most recent LFS (2010-06-16 - adapted for ppc 32) - build to > successfully build a cross-compiler for a 64-bit kernel. But, now > that it's once more a "going concern", and the weather is cool > enough to benefit from using it as a heater, I thought I'd try > nouveau. > > First step was to build 2.6.37-rc6. That seemed fine, so I looked > at the nouveau wiki, other wikis, and the archives of this list. > Set what I thought might be sufficient options for nouveau and kms > in the .config, booted, watched the screen go black when nouveau > loaded. Tried a few alternatives, but no progress,
> after that it continues to boot but with no display. On one > occasion I tried to login blind and give it an orderly shutdown, but > failed. MagicSysRq works for Sync, Umount, Boot (but not for Off). > > I appreciate that macs are very different from PCs, but if any > nouveau users have suggestions I'd appreciate it. I don't know anything about nouveau, but you might want to build ssh inside of chroot and try connecting from another system and see if you can figure out anything from there. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
