The bug report I left for the black screen problem was with Driver/Radeon: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90220
Since you have an Nvidia card, maybe you'd want to file a separate bug report under Driver/nouveau. If my bug report is any indication, expect to be swamped with replies ;) Regards, Dan -------------------------------------------- On Fri, 5/1/15, Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> wrote: Subject: Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen To: "Dan DeVoto" <dand1...@yahoo.com> Cc: "luigi burdo" <intermedi...@hotmail.com>, "Risto Suominen" <risto.suomi...@gmail.com>, "PowerPC List Debian" <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org> Date: Friday, May 1, 2015, 1:32 AM Wow, Dan! Unlike Luigi, I have no need for X on this machine. I’m happy (indeed, I’m overjoyed!) to have a working text console. I’m now using append=“ nomodeset” On my MacPro G5, which has an nvidia card. To be specific: $ lspci | grep -i VGA 0000:0b:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600 LE] (rev a2) How can I add this discussion to your bug report at bugs.freedesktop.org as further evidence of the problem? Thank you a thousand times! Rick On Apr 30, 2015, at 10:49 PM, Dan DeVoto <dand1...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On my machine with an ATI card, the boot parameters "radeon.modeset=0" or "nomodeset" work. So on the second Yaboot screen, I type either "Linux radeon.modeset=0" or "Linux nomodeset" to disable KMS. For machines with Nvidia cards, you can do either "Linux nomodeset" or "Linux nouveau.modeset=0". To make the boot parameters permanent so you don't have to type them in anymore, add them with the "append" line to your yaboot.conf like this: > > image=/boot/vmlinux > label=Linux > read-only > initrd=/boot/initrd.img > append="nomodeset video=offb:off" > > I added the "video=offb:off" parameter because my machine experienced a bug where the open firmware framebuffer was inhibiting the fall-back radeon framebuffer from loading: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=782066 > > Also, don't forget to run "sudo ybin -v" after changing yaboot.conf. I always forget that. > > Regards, > > Dan > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/ee0b30d1-7e6f-49f8-85f5-749dbceca...@pobox.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1430565018.28239.yahoomailba...@web141501.mail.bf1.yahoo.com
