Since I haven't heard anyone say the nVidia fix did the trick, I thought I'd 
look up some possible kernel parameters to use. So really doing a heavy read of 
the FAQ re: graphics problems [1] I find:

1. video=ofonly is not predicted to work for noveau (open source nVidia driver 
fwiw)
2. nouveau.modeset=0 will turn off KMS and may help (just as with 
radeon.modeset=0 for Radeon chips)
3. video=offb:off turns OpenFirmware framebuffer off
4. video=<conn>:<xres>x<yres>[-<bpp>][@<refresh>] also works like Radeon except 
where we have <driver> here we have <conn> which can be found in dmesg | grep 
nouveau | grep Output
5. video=<conn>:d where <conn> can be found in /sys/class/drm and is not the 
same as the one in #4 as this disables these outputs, which can be helpful 
according to the Gentoo page [2] referenced by the ppc faq. Make sure to do all 
of them.
6. combine the above!

Don't forget you can figure out which card you have by looking in lspci.

This info is all readily available but all of it is not collated together so 
neatly, so I thought this might be useful. Good luck.

wxl

[1] 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCFAQ#What_yaboot_parameters_should_I_use_for_graphics_problems.3F
[2] 
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Nouveau#Phantom_and_unpopulated_output_connector_issues

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