PowerMac G4 MDD/867 GForce4MX (NV17)
I have never been able to successfully boot to X with any distro that uses nouveau instead of nv driver.
The only reasonably-current distro I can get to work right now is Debian 6.0.9 with nv.
At X startup I get errors:
Nouveau: Invalid ROM contents
Nouveau returns -22
I get a black screen with mouse pointer. After moving mouse I find a text input location and type my password, and that gives me a basic X desktop (using lubuntu so it's OpenBox) with 4 bit depth. I'm pretty sure it's not using nouveau at that point.
sudo xrandr gives "Can't open Display."
Some info from Xorg log (trimmed):
~/Documents/ubuntu_PPC$ egrep 'EE|WW' Xorg.0.log
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 57.187] (EE) [drm] failed to open device
[ 57.187] (EE) No devices detected.
[ 57.189] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia
[ 57.189] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 57.193] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module modesetting
[ 57.193] (EE) Failed to load module "modesetting" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 57.215] (WW) xf86OpenConsole: setpgid failed: Operation not permitted
[ 57.215] (WW) xf86OpenConsole: setsid failed: Operation not permitted
[ 57.296] (EE) [drm] failed to open device
[ 57.842] (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
I think the nouveau developers didn't have access to a Mac-version GeForce4MX, so their probe doesn't recognize the NV17 card.
Any ideas for troubleshooting further or how to overcome this?
I have never been able to successfully boot to X with any distro that uses nouveau instead of nv driver.
The only reasonably-current distro I can get to work right now is Debian 6.0.9 with nv.
At X startup I get errors:
Nouveau: Invalid ROM contents
Nouveau returns -22
I get a black screen with mouse pointer. After moving mouse I find a text input location and type my password, and that gives me a basic X desktop (using lubuntu so it's OpenBox) with 4 bit depth. I'm pretty sure it's not using nouveau at that point.
sudo xrandr gives "Can't open Display."
Some info from Xorg log (trimmed):
~/Documents/ubuntu_PPC$ egrep 'EE|WW' Xorg.0.log
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 57.187] (EE) [drm] failed to open device
[ 57.187] (EE) No devices detected.
[ 57.189] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia
[ 57.189] (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 57.193] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module modesetting
[ 57.193] (EE) Failed to load module "modesetting" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 57.215] (WW) xf86OpenConsole: setpgid failed: Operation not permitted
[ 57.215] (WW) xf86OpenConsole: setsid failed: Operation not permitted
[ 57.296] (EE) [drm] failed to open device
[ 57.842] (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
I think the nouveau developers didn't have access to a Mac-version GeForce4MX, so their probe doesn't recognize the NV17 card.
Any ideas for troubleshooting further or how to overcome this?
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