Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1061790
Title:
misbehaving X on quantal ppc w/ nvidia geforce fx go5200
Status in “xserver-xorg-video-nouveau” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
i put a lot of information here before it was suggested to make a new bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1043518
but to summarize the only way i could get X to start was by turning of KMS,
e.g. nomodeset or nouveau.modeset=0 boot parameters. when i did, i got such
horrible graphics i wasn't able to even complete the install. a picture can be
found here:
http://imgur.com/ArhrV
even using an alternate to directly do the install, the result was plagued
with the same problems.
so i set to make an xorg.conf. by auto-configuring the file per instructions
here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCFAQ#How_do_I_configure_an_xorg.conf_file.3F
and turning off 3d acceleration which was suggested here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2066064
and found success.
i tried several other things, like disabling other outputs and adding
modelines, but this was deemed unnecessarily so i whittled the xorg.conf down
to the minimum which you can find along with dmesg and Xorg.0.log here:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/1260328/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.2-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-16.25-powerpc-smp 3.5.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-16-powerpc-smp ppc
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: powerpc
Date: Thu Oct 4 10:58:10 2012
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Beta powerpc (20121001)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=screen
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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