Re: PowerMac G5 can't startx (nouveau issue?)

Hi Cedar,

On Tue, 2025-08-12 at 19:57 -0500, Cedar Maxwell wrote:
> Attached is my Xorg log.  It appears the nouveau driver is having an
> issue modesetting.  Despite "(WW) Warning, couldn't open module nv", I
> can confirm xserver-xorg-video-nouveau is installed.
> 
> I am aware of the idea of adding "nouveau.noaccel=1" to my GRUB config,
> but I want hardware acceleration.
> 
> Any advice would be appreciated.

Are you using an xorg.conf? I'm asking because "nv" is not the same as
"nouveau" (the former is the old nVidia driver) and I have the impression
that you may have configured the wrong driver.

Adrian

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