Re: GeForce4 on Linux PowerPC
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 21:27, Alessandro Astarita wrote:
> Il 00:57, domenica 5 gennaio 2003, Yves Combe ha scritto:
> > On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 12:37:33 +0100
> > Alessandro Astarita <aleast@capri.it> wrote:
> > > I have an iMac G4 17" widescreen and the graphic card is identified
> > > as "GeForce 4 440 Go" by XFree86.
> > >
> > > Can anyone help me?
> >
> > Did you try the FlatPanel Option ?
> >
> > # Device configured by xf86config:
> >
> > Section "Device"
> > Identifier "NVIDIA GeForce4 MX420"
> > Driver "nv"
> > Option "FlatPanel" "true"
> > EndSection
>
> I have tried it, but without success! :-(
> X hangs with a black screen. I have to hit ctrl+alt+backspace to go back
> to console.
Do you use rivafb in the kernel or not ? I think there's an incompatibility
between it and X 'nv' driver. Make sure you are only using offb in the kernel
(video=ofonly on the kernel command line, or "novideo" option in yaboot.conf).
Ben.
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