Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-ati
System: PowerMac G4/800 "Quicksilver", ATI Radeon RV200 QW, Format 17" TFT
After the update from 9.04 to 9.10, X did not come up any more. Instead of the X screen, the TFT showed single pixels, sometimes a blue line, and a greenish shade. Switching back to the text console was imnpossible. The system was still alive, though; I could reach it via ssh from an other box and reboot.
I then removed the packages xserver-xorg-video-ati and xserver-xorg-video-radeon, and installed xserver-xorg-video-ati_6.12.1-0ubuntu2_powerpc.deb and xserver-xorg-video-radeon_6.12.1-0ubuntu2_powerpc.deb, and now X starts again.
==> there is a bug in xserver-xorg-video-(ati|radeon) coming with 9.10
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: powerpc
Date: Sat Oct 31 14:38:11 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:6.12.1-0ubuntu2
ProcCmdLine: root=/dev/hda12 ro ramdisk_size=8192 root=/dev/hda12 apparmor.enabled=0 selinux=1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-powerpc
RelatedPackageVersions:
xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu7
libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.1-0ubuntu2
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-ati
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-powerpc ppc
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
distro: Ubuntu
architecture: ppckernel: 2.6.31-14-powerpc
Note: The X logs attached automagically to this bug are *not* those from the broken driver, but for the working one. Please send me a message if you would like to have the X log from the broken drivers.