Re: X and GeForce6600

Tony Jones <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.ppc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 11/19/2012 02:50 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
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> On 16.11.2012, at 07:42, Tony Jones wrote:
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>> Has anyone had any success using 12.2/ppc64/Gnome with a GeForce 6600 (quad core G5)?    
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>> 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.
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> Hrm. I had nv running on a PowerBook with Andreas' patches. Please check:
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>   http://opensuse.14.n6.nabble.com/Call-for-testing-td4976299i20.html
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>> 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".
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>> 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.
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> It worked just fine for me after I used the patches version of nv mentioned above :)
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> 
> Alex
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I like the patch, remove the check :)   nv driver now starts for me now but gnome goes into fallback mode.  Same for you?

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.

tony
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