misbehaving X on quantal ppc w/ nvidia geforce fx go5200
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Bug Description
i put a lot of information here before it was suggested to make a new bug:
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but to summarize the only way i could get X to start was by turning of KMS, e.g. nomodeset or nouveau.modeset=0 boot parameters. when i did, i got such horrible graphics i wasn't able to even complete the install. a picture can be found here:
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even using an alternate to directly do the install, the result was plagued with the same problems.
so i set to make an xorg.conf. by auto-configuring the file per instructions here:
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and turning off 3d acceleration which was suggested here:
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and found success.
i tried several other things, like disabling other outputs and adding modelines, but this was deemed unnecessarily so i whittled the xorg.conf down to the minimum which you can find along with dmesg and Xorg.0.log here:
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: xserver-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-16-
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: powerpc
Date: Thu Oct 4 10:58:10 2012
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Beta powerpc (20121001)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=screen
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
SourcePackage: xserver-
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
It's probably worth pointing out that you had to define an xorg.conf because you got "No devices detected" in the Xorg.0.log. A similar problem to what is currently happening to some (all?) radeon cards with PowerPC at the moment since the latest update to the radeon driver - bug 1058641 .