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> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Raymond Rehayem <email address hidden>wrote:
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>> By the way, that site loads very slow- when it loads at all. if you can't
>> get it to load here's the cached page from Google:
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>> http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:e8eiBaeq2sUJ:www.ppclinux.info/boards/1/topics/show/517+nouveau+driver+ubuntu+powerpc+libraryeye&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
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>> Richard- do you know if new release of Ubuntu is going to be ported to PPC
>> by the community soon? Will it default to nouveau driver? If so, maybe
>> Matthew can just wait & install that instead.
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>> Ray
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>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Raymond Rehayem <email address hidden>wrote:
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>>> Hi everyone,
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>>> Actually, I no longer have it installed … however as I recall in Jaunty
>>> on my PPC iMac G5 20" I was able to choose the nouveau driver instead and
>>> restart, with no need  to apply the patch.
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>>> I had some trouble doing it but got it to work. I posted info to
>>> ppclinux.info:
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>>> http://www.ppclinux.info/boards/1/topics/show/517
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>>> Let me know if that works,
>>> Ray
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>>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:14 AM, RichardBronosky <
>>> <email address hidden>> wrote:
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>>>> Matthew,
>>>> Please tell me what directory you are in when you issue the command and
>>>> the exact complete error string. The description you give is ambiguous as to
>>>> whether the source files or destination directory cannot be found. (Also, I
>>>> have not tried this on Jaunty, but am willing to update the process to
>>>> accommodate.)
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>>>> [Hardy-Alpha 4 PPC] Screen resolution correct but shifted to the right
>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/189844
>>>> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
>>>> of the bug.
>>>>
>>>> Status in X.Org X server: In Progress
>>>> Status in “xserver-xorg-video-nv” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>>>>
>>>> Bug description:
>>>> On my PPC G5 iMac 20" built-in display with Hardy-Alpha 4, using the
>>>> standard NV driver, the resolution of 1680x1050 is detected correctly but is
>>>> shifted to the right by about 1/2 inch, which continues back to the left
>>>> hand side.  In other words, the trash can and quit icons are mostly cut off
>>>> on the right, and appear on the left!
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, the mouse won't go past a boundary on the left hand side
>>>> to access them, even if I did want to live with the display shifted like
>>>> this.  This issue first appeared for me in Gutsy as well, and nothing seems
>>>> to be able to move the display back to the left a little.  I have tried
>>>> xrandr, xvidtune, custom modelines, etc.  Only Feisty and below have the
>>>> 1680x1050 screen centered properly.  With an Imac, there are no manual
>>>> screen movement adjustments that can be made.  It feels as though something
>>>> is locking out any attempt to center the screen, since the resolution seems
>>>> correct.
>>>>
>>>> Interestingly enough, if I take a screen-shot and view it, the
>>>> screen-shot looks perfect, but isn't centered properly in real life.  I've
>>>> tried the usual dkpg-reconfigure routines, but it's not that the resolution
>>>> is incorrect, it is just that the screen want to dive over to the right and
>>>> wrap back to the left....
>>>>
>>>> [lspci]
>>>> 0000:f0:10.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV34M
>>>> [GeForce FX Go5200] [10de:0329] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
>>>>        Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device [10de:0010]
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