Re: PowerMac G5 can't startx (nouveau issue?)

[Cedar Maxwell <cedarmaxwell@mac.com>]

Hello Adrian,

I have no /etc/X11/xorg.conf or ~/.xorg.conf.

grep -i "config" /var/log/Xorg.0.log

and

journalctl -b | grep -i xorg 

did not show any xorg.conf being used.  Did I miss anything?

Thanks
Cedar

On Wed, 2025-08-13 at 07:52 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi Cedar,
> 
> On Tue, 2025-08-12 at 19:57 -0500, Cedar Maxwell wrote:
> > Attached is my Xorg log.  It appears the nouveau driver is having
> > an
> > issue modesetting.  Despite "(WW) Warning, couldn't open module
> > nv", I
> > can confirm xserver-xorg-video-nouveau is installed.
> > 
> > I am aware of the idea of adding "nouveau.noaccel=1" to my GRUB
> > config,
> > but I want hardware acceleration.
> > 
> > Any advice would be appreciated.
> 
> Are you using an xorg.conf? I'm asking because "nv" is not the same
> as
> "nouveau" (the former is the old nVidia driver) and I have the
> impression
> that you may have configured the wrong driver.
> 
> Adrian