Bug#399636: g3 imac: installation with the gtk-mini.iso

[Attilio Fiandrotti <attilio.fiandrotti@gmail.com>]

Ah, ok, i tought you had a debian installed on your g5 and i was asking 
you to run xorg on fbdev to know if the nv fb module was broken when 
used with X.

thanks anyway

Attilio

Rick Thomas wrote:
> So far, I believe I'm the only one to try it with an Nvidia board on  
> ppc64.
>
> The g5 machine only runs MacOS-X.  I just tried the g-i to see if I  
> could get it to display, since I know that is a problem area.  I  don't 
> want to put Linux on it.
>
> So, given that, is there anything I can do that would be helpful?   I'm 
> not sure what is involved in "set the X server to use the fbdev  device".
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Rick
>
>
> On Nov 21, 2006, at 10:54 AM, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
>
> > The g-i was never reported to work on PPC equipped with nvidia  
> > boards: rick, if you set the X server to use the fbdev device on  your 
> > g5, does it crash too?
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > Attilio