On 20.11.2012, at 00:11, Tony Jones wrote:
On 11/19/2012 02:50 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
On 16.11.2012, at 07:42, Tony Jones wrote:
Has anyone had any success using 12.2/ppc64/Gnome with a GeForce 6600 (quad core G5)?
Nouveau: I built the nouveau X driver and am booting with video=nvidiafb:off (probably should be =m/=n in the kernel config). X server is starting fine but Gnome errors out immediately (before login prompt) with the "Oh no! Something has gone wrong" error screen.
Hrm. I had nv running on a PowerBook with Andreas' patches. Please check:
http://opensuse.14.n6.nabble.com/Call-for-testing-td4976299i20.html
nv: booting with nomodeset and nouveau.blacklist=1 I can prevent the nouveau kernel module loading (KMS is in the initrd) but the nv X driver still complains "The PCI device 0x10de0141 (GeForce 6600) at 10@00:00:0 has a kernel module claiming it".
Maybe someone who knows about Gnome has an idea on the first. The X server seems to be running ok as while the "Oh no! Something has gone wrong error" is on the screen I can manually start an xterm on the same display.
It worked just fine for me after I used the patches version of nv mentioned above :)
Alex
I like the patch, remove the check :) nv driver now starts for me now but gnome goes into fallback mode. Same for you?
Yeah, but coincidently I like fallback mode quite well :).
I see Andreas has a nouveau package in the same repo, it's the same diff (against 12.2) as mine, just change the exclusive-arch ..... anyways, Gnome refuses to start period with the nouveau driver.
IIRC Ben was hacking on the nouveau driver for PPC a while back. Maybe he has some more ideas :) Alex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+owner@opensuse.org