On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Andreas Mohr wrote: > However very obviously I'd assume PPC handling to be quite a bit different to > x86 handling. > So, as venerable Alex said, your first stop should be PPC-knowledgeable > groups. > > That said, the lockup / garbled screen might perhaps be caused by AGP issues. > On x86, AGP support often is provided by the intel-agp.ko module. > If that module is not available (or perhaps a driver setting is provided to > disable it), > then driver operation falls back to PCI-only, which might improve reliability. > > Also, you should check whether Xorg reports DRI as enabled > (and if so, try setting it to disabled, since that might be problematic too).
DRI is broken on PPC, AFAIK. Otherwise, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCFAQ#ATI_Rage_128_cards and for instance http://www.mintppc.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1137&start=40 (ojordan is doing a good job trying to keep PPC ports alive). Tormod _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
