On Fre, 2010-10-08 at 17:08 -0700, Gnu Turd wrote:
> I installed squeeze on a PowerBook G4 and was unhappy with the
> performance of the nv driver trying to use Blender & for graphics in
> general.
>
> 0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34M
> [GeForce FX Go5200] (rev a1)
>
> I tried setting up a xorg.conf and using nouveau, but couldn't get to
> X. So I "upgraded" to sid/development, but it is still using the
> 2.6.32.5 kernel. I gather that nouveau has been added to the kernel
> of 2.6.33 and up.
FWIW, a lot of DRM changes from newer kernels are backported to the
sid/squeeze 2.6.32.y kernels, don't know offhand if that includes
nouveau though.
> So I thought I'd try setting the machine up as a mixed system. I added
> the sid repositories to my sources.list and made unstable the default
> release in a /etc/apt/apt.conf. I attempted to install
> linux-headers-2.6.33-2-powerpc, which I gathered might support nouveau
> better, but got unmet dependency errors. It there a way to force
> apt-get to install a kernel on the experimental repository?
Yes, but as the package above is only available in experimental, there
shouldn't be anything to force really... If you post the actual
dependency errors, we might be able to help solve them.
root@debmac:~# apt-get -t experimental install linux-image-2.6.33-2-powerpc linux-base
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
linux-base is already the newest version.
linux-base set to manually installed.
linux-image-2.6.33-2-powerpc is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 203 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
Setting up linux-image-2.6.33-2-powerpc (2.6.33-1~experimental.5) ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.33-2-powerpc (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
configured to not write apport reports
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-2.6.33-2-powerpc
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Build Date: 20 September 2010 06:13:09PM
xorg-server 2:1.7.7-7 (Julien Cristau <
jcristau@debian.org>)
Current version of pixman: 0.16.4
Before reporting problems, check
http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Oct 11 13:19:21 2010
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
(EE) [drm] failed to open device
(EE) No devices detected.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at
http://wiki.x.org for help.
Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
giving up.
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau:
Installed: 1:0.0.15+git20100329+7858345-4
Candidate: 1:0.0.15+git20100329+7858345-4
Version table:
1:0.0.16+git20100825+390f1c8-1 0
1
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental/main powerpc Packages
*** 1:0.0.15+git20100329+7858345-4 0
990
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid/main powerpc Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status