I solved this last night on the iMac I describe above with an 8.10 Intrepid 
Ibex Alternate PPC install CD. It seems that the idea of using the nv_drv.so 
from Feisty will not work with Intrepid due to a version mismatch. I am not at 
that computer, so I am doing this off of memory:
# switch to root
sudo su -
# update apt
apt-get update
# get the source
apt-get source xserver-xorg-video-nv
# get the denpencies needed to build the source
apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-video-nv
# undo the commit detailed here 
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-nv/commit/?id=ec78618d685759a39d386e9929661037b167fe68
# I came to this conclusion based on 
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14659#c2 & 
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4686#c13
cd xserver-xorg-video-nv*/
sed -i '/pNv->Architecture == NV_ARCH_30/,+1d'  src/nv_dac.c
# build the driver
./configure && make
# backup the existing driver
cp /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so 
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so.original
# copy the new driver over top of the old (don't know if I needed the .la and 
.lai, but I copied them)
cp -f src/.lib/nv_drv.* /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/
# restart xorg
/etc/init.d/gdm restart

like I said, that is all from memory, so let me know if something doesn't work 
for you.  You can reach me at my first name at my last name dot com.
--Richard Bronosky

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