On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 00:10, F. Heitkamp wrote: > I've read on penguinppc.org that the nvidia driver for > PowerPC G4 Macintosh might at least be partially working. > (both kernel and X). When I pull the Xfree86 sources from > CVS, no "nv" module gets built.
So it doesn't get built on PPC by default yet. Define your own list of drivers to build in host.def. > Does any one know about whether the nv driver works? It should work. If your CVS tree is older than a week you should update again, there have been a couple endianness fixes in the nv driver. > Also, I have the kernel compiled with nvidia support. What is the > video command to pass to the kernel to load the nvidia driver? I use video=riva:[EMAIL PROTECTED],font:SUN12x22 on my i386 box. But are you sure that your kernel contains the necessary fixes? Last I heard was that not even benh's tree contained them... -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
