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  1. Bug #1043518
  2. Comment #61

Comment 61 for bug 1043518

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JOna (jblistat) wrote :

I tried to be systematic and did over 100 boots with different nouveau-settings both with and without xorg.conf, in varying configurations. Nothing works. At best I got unusable 4-color(?) screen that was mentioned in the first post of this thread. Text terminal in single-mode works.

The chip I have is GeForce4 440 MX in Powerbook G4 17 inch (M8793LL/A - PowerBook5,1 - A1013). I did the testing with kernels from ubuntu/lubuntu 12.04 and 12.10.

My conclusion at this point is that with recent kernels it is not possible to configure X in Powerbook G4 with Nvidia GeForce4 440 MX.

Maybe if I compile my own kernel I could get X back? What parts of the kernel should be dropped and what parts should be included?

FYI: I did also try every possible framebuffer with and without xorg.conf editing modprobe-blacklisting of framebuffers and yaboot bootline parameters accordingly. None of those work either. Some have dependancies with packages available only for i386, and the others were just broken.