On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:21 AM, Jeroen Diederen <jjhdiede...@zonnet.nl> wrote: > Get inspiration for xorg.conf here:
> http://mac.linux.be/content/xorgconf-file-powerbook-g415-12-lucid-lynx I appreciate the suggestion, Jeroen. Unfortunately that is precisely the xorg.conf that I tried in vain with Debian, not quite getting to X. The /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old files ends with a highly informative: (EE) [drm] failed to open device (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found Funny thing is that there is xserver-xorg-video-nouveau already installed, I believe by default. I'm downloading the debugging packages now, but just being a 'normal' user I have no idea how to use them. However this experiment adds one piece to the puzzle, since if I recall correctly Lucid also uses 2.6.32, and it appears to work with nouveau. Hence, upgrading to a > 2.6.32 kernel may well not solve my problem. So unless someone can suggest a way to make sid work with nouveau I think I may try to resize the '/' partition and make the thing dual boot Ubuntu after Meercat comes out next week.Eventually I'm guessing sid will start defaulting to nouveau and the install should be OK (Fedora has been using nouveau by default since 11, almost a year and a half ago, but dropped PPC after 12, so I'd have to install 12 and yum-upgrade to 13). Does anyone how long after a release the community PPC versions of Ubuntu tend to be uploaded? There is no sign of a 10.10 beta at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCDownloads I'm a big believer in LTS & stable versions of releases, but with something as cutting edge as nouveau probably the latest & greatest version is best. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlkti=w=ogex7jq5m7yhzs9duwyhtfmon4ppc632...@mail.gmail.com
