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| 01:08.53 | dclarke | anyone here worked with NVidia drivers on PPC Debian ? |
| 01:09.12 | dclarke | meaning .. how do I get graphical desktop .. at the moment I get a black screen but I can ssh in |
| 01:10.49 | pahartik | dclarke: Did you find anything useful from "/var/log/Xorg.0.log"? |
| 01:11.06 | dclarke | good question .. as I never even looked there yet |
| 01:11.08 | dclarke | one sec |
| 01:12.40 | dclarke | 532 lines .. one sec .. I'll paste the whole thing and then its easy to look at |
| 01:14.35 | pahartik | dclarke: As long as it does not involve flooding channel |
| 01:19.39 | dclarke | I would never do that ! see http://www.openfor.org/test/powerpc64-NVidia/ |
| 01:19.52 | dclarke | first file is http://www.openfor.org/test/powerpc64-NVidia/hw-lspci.txt |
| 01:20.06 | dclarke | see 0000:0a:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600] (rev a2) |
| 01:20.37 | dclarke | I ran hwinfo --short and droped that into http://www.openfor.org/test/powerpc64-NVidia/hwinfo_short.txt |
| 01:21.12 | dclarke | my flat panel screen is a ASUS VH242H which does a nice job at 1920x1080 .. nothing fancy |
| 01:22.33 | dclarke | anyways .. I'm scanning http://www.openfor.org/test/powerpc64-NVidia/Xorg.0.log.txt to see anything of value |
| 01:26.29 | dclarke | possible issue at II) NOUVEAU(0): Not using mode "1920x1080" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) |
| 01:27.52 | pahartik | dclarke: It tries 1024x768@50 |
| 01:28.23 | dclarke | seems that way .. and that is of course fully supported on this monitor |
| 01:28.31 | dclarke | however .. I get nothing out |
| 01:28.53 | dclarke | I think I'll set this problem aside .. as I am still working towards a boot strap of gcc anyways |
| 01:29.12 | dclarke | once I get past that perhaps I'll make my own X implementation |
| 01:30.06 | dclarke | I just moved cables around and the monitor claims there is no signal |
| 01:30.26 | dclarke | that means to me that nothing is happening at the NVidia HDMI or DVI output ports at all |
| 01:31.16 | dclarke | thanks for the input .. I'll put this issue aside .. its not critical atm as the server runs fine via ssh |
| 01:31.29 | dclarke | a little annoying there is no graphics but still a very very usable server |
| 01:32.40 | pahartik | dclarke: Did you try "nv" instead of "nouveau"? |
| 01:32.59 | dclarke | well, good question |
| 01:33.10 | dclarke | in fact I was hunting on the NVidia site for a new driver |
| 01:33.18 | dclarke | hopeing to find something for ppc64 |
| 01:33.21 | dclarke | good luck with that |
| 01:33.41 | dclarke | this is a minor issue in the great scheme of things and I'll ignore it |
| 01:34.06 | dclarke | I have larger issues with my binutils linker that fails to make a shared lib for mpc-0.9 which I need to bootsctap gcc 4.6.2 |
| 01:43.36 | pahartik | dclarke: On my PowerPC workstation I had to use that deprecated driver to get X11 server running |
| 01:44.07 | dclarke | well ... I may have to buy a newer Quadro card but who knows if that is even supported |
| 01:44.29 | dclarke | this would make an excellent media machine to drive output to my 72" SHARP television |
| 01:44.45 | dclarke | four powerpc chips at 2.5 GHz is more that enough horsepower |
| 01:46.01 | pahartik | dclarke: ATI adapters were always easier for me... And I never thought about looking for proprietary drivers |
| 01:46.28 | dclarke | I was always of the opinion that NVidia made the most awesome graphics hardware on the planet |
| 01:46.34 | dclarke | just an opinion however |
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| 07:28.47 | Nalle_ | Morning |
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| 07:51.03 | Nalle_ | Heya bittin |
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| 23:30.09 | AR-Brad | Ok, I just turned on my Mac with the new airport card, but it's not working with my wireless network. I was told earlier I might need firmware; is there a place where I can get said firmware? |
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| 23:33.29 | AR-Brad | Also, for some strange reason, the mac is seeing the Airport card as "eth1" rather then "wlan1" or "wlan0". |