Alright, this issue is staring to get a bit annoying. I've got several PPC Mac's that I'm playing with Linux on. Each of them is a G4, and the two that I'm toying with now use nVidia graphics (Geforce 6200 in PowerMac, and a Geforce 4 440 Go in a iMac G4).
On both machines, when I install from the debian netinstall CD, I end up with what looks like a 16 bit environment. I've played a little with Xorg.conf (after creating it), but still end up with ugly colors.
My Xorg.conf is as follows (for the iMac - 17''):
Code:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
BusID "PCI:0:16:0"
Driver "nouveau"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1440x900" "1152x720" "1024x768" "1024x640" "800x600"
EndSubSection
Depth 1
Modes "1440x900" "1152x720" "1024x768" "1024x640" "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
EndSection
#Section "DRI"
# Mode 0666
#EndSection
DRI is commented out right now, just to see if it was causing issues.
Running 'lsmod' shows that the nouveau module is loaded, but 'glxinfo' lists 'Software Rasterizer' and 'Mesa Project' for the 'renderer string' and 'vendor string' fields, respectively.
Am I missing something obvious, or just too tired? I saved this 800 mhz iMac from a dumpster earlier (just needed a hard drive), and am looking to put it to use. It's future may have a mini-ITX x86 swap, but for now, I'd like to see what it is capable of.
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