Re: startx goes to black screen with mouse pointer
On Jun 24, 2015, at 1:20 PM, Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Jun 24, 2015, at 1:07 PM, Dan DeVoto wrote:
>
>> Rick,
>>
>> Did you try the boot parameter "nouveau.noaccel=1"? I've read other G5 users report success with that.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dan
>
> Thanks, Dan! I'll give it a try and report back. Where did you read about this? I'd be interested in seeing what other G5 users have to say. We're a bit thin on the ground here in Debian-user land!
>
> Enjoy!
> Rick
I tried it. I got the usual scroll of booting messages flying past, then it stops dead… I can login via ssh but no response on the keyboard, mouse or video.
I get the following messages in the systemd journal, if they provide any help:
> Jun 24 22:45:46 bigal kernel: Console: colour dummy device 80x25
> Jun 24 22:45:46 bigal kernel: console [tty0] enabled
> Jun 24 22:45:46 bigal kernel: bootconsole [udbg0] disabled
> Jun 24 22:45:46 bigal kernel: Using unsupported 1680x1050 NVDA,Display-B at 98020000, depth=8, pitch=2048
> Jun 24 22:45:46 bigal kernel: Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 210x65
> Jun 24 22:45:46 bigal kernel: fb0: Open Firmware frame buffer device on /pci@0,f0000000/NVDA,Parent@0/NVDA,Display-B@1
> Jun 24 22:45:47 bigal kernel: fb: switching to nouveaufb from OFfb NVDA,Displ
> Jun 24 22:45:47 bigal kernel: Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25
> Jun 24 22:45:47 bigal kernel: nouveau [ DEVICE][0000:0b:00.0] BOOT0 : 0x043200a4
> Jun 24 22:45:47 bigal kernel: nouveau [ DEVICE][0000:0b:00.0] Chipset: NV43 (NV43)
> Jun 24 22:45:47 bigal kernel: nouveau [ DEVICE][0000:0b:00.0] Family : NV40
> Jun 24 22:45:47 bigal kernel: nouveau 0000:0b:00.0: Invalid ROM contents
> Jun 24 22:45:47 bigal kernel: nouveau ![ VBIOS][0000:0b:00.0] unable to locate usable image
> Jun 24 22:45:47 bigal kernel: nouveau E[ DEVICE][0000:0b:00.0] failed to create 0x10000001, -22
> Jun 24 22:45:47 bigal kernel: nouveau E[ DRM] failed to create 0x00000080, -22
> Jun 24 22:45:47 bigal kernel: nouveau: probe of 0000:0b:00.0 failed with error -22
And, incase I made a typo or something:
> rbthomas@bigal:~$ cat /proc/cmdline
> root=UUID=d862b8d3-8bcb-4d66-9863-8010bae96ae9 nouveau.noaccel=1
Any thoughts?
Again: Thanks in advance!
Rick
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