Re: New Powerbook 12" + Nvidia problems

[Martin Alfke <martin@10ergang.de>]

Hi,

I had the same problem on the 17" PB with
NVidia GeForce 440 GO 64M chipset.

I found out that XFree86-4.3.99 (that is pre 4.4)
supports my chipset. So I made xfree-packages
for Debian sid.

They are available via apt:
deb ftp://ftp.ppcnux.de/pub/Mirrors/ftp.debian.de/xfree86 sid .

More information can be found:
http://www.ppcnux.de/forum_phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=828

Regards,

	Martindebian-po

On 01.11.2003, at 02:39, pander@users.sourceforge.net wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have exactly the same. I used to have unstable distro and it worked 
> great but now downgraded to testing and have the same misery.
>
> What we need to get in order first is the sources.list and the 
> preferences file and get the correct commands to install the XF which 
> works (might be the case to have all packages from stable, except XF 
> from a unstable or experimental distro)
>
> But at the moment I haven't got the details right, I know that hackig 
> is not needed, all we need is the install the correct package and 
> download the X config file from Matthias' site. I hope some people 
> with woody or testing can send us some precise sources.list etc files 
> and command. Because it does/did work.
>
> Regards,
>
> Pander
>
> On Saturday, November 1, 2003, at 02:14 AM, David Pye wrote:
>
> > Hi guys :)
> >
> > I've just got a brand new G4 powerbook with the Nvidia graphics 
> > chipset.
> >
> > After much hackery, I've got Debian Woody and XFree86 4.3 (built from 
> > source -
> > hacked files to get nv driver built).
> >
> > startx now doesn't fail, but what appears isn't even remotely usable 
> > - it's a
> > green/red dot matrix, in which the window outlines are faintly 
> > visible.
> >
> > I found some old archive messages pointing to a hacked nv driver, but 
> > I can't
> > find any info on it.
> >
> > Would somebody be able to provide a few ideas?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > David
> >
> > Kernel is 2.4.23-pre5-ben0
> >
> > PS: Here's the output of lspci -vv for the graphics controller:
> >
> > 00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 
> > 0329
> > (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> >         Subsystem: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0010
> >         Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
> > ParErr-
> > Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> >         Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium 
> > >TAbort-
> > <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> >         Latency: 248 (1250ns min, 250ns max)
> >         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 48
> >         Region 0: Memory at 91000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) 
> > [size=16M]
> >         Region 1: Memory at a0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) 
> > [size=128M]
> >         Expansion ROM at 90000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
> >         Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
> >                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
> > PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
> >                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> >         Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0
> >                 Status: RQ=31 SBA+ 64bit- FW+ Rate=x1,x2
> >                 Command: RQ=0 SBA- AGP- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none>
> >
> >
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