eMac + ubuntu = no X

[miansancor]

Hi every one :) Greetings from Granada (Spain)

Really this ppc linux distribution is with difference the best! Mostly 'cause the nice helpfull community! :D Although mine is not yet solved :(

Well here is my problem:
I have a nvidia geforce 2 Mx video card and I do not find the way to make it to work :oops:

Any of you have succeded in that matter? Or aware of any eMac linux x.conf that works.

Thanks for any help! :lol:

[bakunin74]

Hi!

I searched around a bit and found a XF86Config file from a brazilian Mandrake PPC User...
...changed some parameters (you schould change the keyboard layout from "de" to "es") and finally it worked and still does on my eMac with his lame GForce 2MX. Maybe there could be done some optimization but i am not that kind of an X-pert...
You can download the file from:

http://homepage.univie.ac.at/georg.koe/XF86Config/XF86Config-4.emac700nvidia.working

How to install:

Boot into ubuntu, The xserver will go down and you fall back to the shell. login and then type

% sudo -s

again provide your password

% cd /etc/X11

backup your old conf-file

% mv XF86Config-4 XF86Config-4.old

download the new config

% wget http://homepage.univie.ac.at/georg.koe/XF86Config/XF86Config-4.emac700nvidia.working

rename it

% mv XF86Config-4.emac700nvidia.working XF86Config-4

reboot your system (not necessary but who knows)

now it should work

[miansancor]

Thanks a lot because your replay finally I can have X on my eMac

[jjramsey]

If you are running an eMac with ATi graphics, bug 4297 (https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4297) may hit you. I follow the advice in comment #5 (https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4297#c5) of the bug and got things working.

Posting from Hoary LiveCD (array-4).

[HBomb187]

one note on the above mentioned post, this does indeed work, but in the newest version of ubuntu (5.04 Hoary) but the x server will not kill itself, you have to invoke a new login prompt (control+apple+f1) and follow the rest of the instructions up until the point of actually naming the config file, the name differs in this release, it is xorg.conf, this does indeed remedy the issue of no video in x, because it is obviously still an issue on the eMac