(PPC) Xorg crashes at boot time -> bulletproof mode

[Siddhartha Valmont]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-nv

I had a fully functional Ubuntu 8.04.1 installation on my PowerMac G5 4x2,5 GHz with a Nvidia Quadro FX 4500 (driver nv).
I upgraded to the 8.10 and 9.04 version with the update manager. When the computer rebooted after the upgrade, I ended with Xorg in bulletproof mode (cf. the Xorg.0.nv-driver.log). The Xorg log showed an error message about "No valid MMIO address in PCI config space" and screen not found (same DVI monitor than in 8.10).
I tried the nouveau driver in case of luck, but unfortunately I had another error.

I made a final try by using the alternate 9.04 cd to format an re-install in case of an error whole upgrading. But the error stays.

I have tried to hardcode the driver and force to ignore the EDID but the error stay the same : Bulletproof mode with funky colors hardly readable. I used the option login in console mode and try to fix the conf. I am now posting this bug from the command line (lynx is the best friend of unlucky admins ^.^).

After trying to find on the ubuntuforums.org and by googling without success, I now to fill-in a bug.

Ubuntu release : Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty
NV driver version : 1:2.1.12-1ubuntu5 (xserver-xorg-video-nv)
Xserver version : 1:7.4-5ubuntu18 (xserver-xorg)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: powerpc
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: xserver-xorg-video-nv 1:2.1.12-1ubuntu5
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-6-powerpc64-smp (buildd@adare) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 09:59:41 UTC 2009
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-nv
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-6-powerpc64-smp ppc64
Xrandr:

glxinfo:

setxkbmap:

xdpyinfo:

xkbcomp:

[lspci]
0000:0a:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G70GL [Quadro FX 4500] [10de:009d] (rev a1)
     Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Device [10de:004d]
0001:00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Apple Computer Inc. U4 HT Bridge [106b:0074]
     Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Device [106b:4318]

==== And also ====

Ubuntu release : Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid
NV driver version : 1:2.1.10-1ubuntu2 (xserver-xorg-video-nv)
Xserver version : 1:7.4-5ubuntu3 (xserver-xorg)
Kernel version : 2.6.25.2.4-powerpc64

[Siddhartha Valmont (siddhartha-valmont)]

After further testing I reinstalled the following version that worked successfully :

<table border=1>
<tr><th colspan=2>Debian Lenny 5.01</th></tr>
<tr><td>kernel</td><td>2.6.26-2-powerpc64</td></tr>
<tr><td>xserver-xorg</td><td>1:7.3+18</td></tr>
<tr><td>xserver-xorg-video-nv</td><td>1:2.1.10-1</td></tr>
<table>

<table border=1>
<tr><th colspan=2>Ubuntu 8.04.1</th></tr>
<tr><td>kernel</td><td>2.6.24-19 and 2.6.24-24</td></tr>
<tr><td>xserver-xorg</td><td>1:7.3+10ubuntu10</td></tr>
<tr><td>xserver-xorg-video-nv</td><td>1:2.1.8-1ubuntu1</td></tr>
</table>

Note : I installed Ubuntu 8.04.1 front the PPC desktop live CD and everything worked out of the box.

In fact, the bug reported started to appear when I upgraded my installation to 8.10 (and was still here on 9.04).

(I'll update the bug report...).

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Thank you for reporting this issue about xserver-xorg-video-nv. Starting
with Lucid, Ubuntu is transitioning to using the -nouveau video driver
by default instead of -nv. The reason for this change is because
upstream development for the -nv driver has been quite slow. We are
quite pleased with the upstream development speed for -nouveau, and hope
this will translate into swifter bug fixes as well.

Because of this, I'm closing this bug report at this time. I'm marking
it wontfix because what you describe is probably a valid issue, but we
do not have further plans to work on it in Ubuntu. If you would still like
to see this issue investigated, I would encourage you to file it
upstream at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/.

[Siddhartha Valmont (siddhartha-valmont)]

The issue is solved in Ubuntu 10.04

The nouveau driver works perfectly :)