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[libraryeye <libraryeye@xxxxxxxxx>]

By the way, that site loads very slow- when it loads at all. if you can't
get it to load here's the cached page from Google:

http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:e8eiBaeq2sUJ:www.ppclinux.info/boards/1/topics/show/517+nouveau+driver+ubuntu+powerpc+libraryeye&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a


Richard- do you know if new release of Ubuntu is going to be ported to PPC
by the community soon? Will it default to nouveau driver? If so, maybe
Matthew can just wait & install that instead.

Ray

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Raymond Rehayem
<libraryeye@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Actually, I no longer have it installed … however as I recall in Jaunty on
> my PPC iMac G5 20" I was able to choose the nouveau driver instead and
> restart, with no need  to apply the patch.
>
> I had some trouble doing it but got it to work. I posted info to
> ppclinux.info:
>
> http://www.ppclinux.info/boards/1/topics/show/517
>
> Let me know if that works,
> Ray
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:14 AM, RichardBronosky <brunosjunk@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
>
>> Matthew,
>> Please tell me what directory you are in when you issue the command and
>> the exact complete error string. The description you give is ambiguous as to
>> whether the source files or destination directory cannot be found. (Also, I
>> have not tried this on Jaunty, but am willing to update the process to
>> accommodate.)
>>
>> --
>> [Hardy-Alpha 4 PPC] Screen resolution correct but shifted to the right
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/189844
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>> of the bug.
>>
>> Status in X.Org X server: In Progress
>> Status in “xserver-xorg-video-nv” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>>
>> Bug description:
>> On my PPC G5 iMac 20" built-in display with Hardy-Alpha 4, using the
>> standard NV driver, the resolution of 1680x1050 is detected correctly but is
>> shifted to the right by about 1/2 inch, which continues back to the left
>> hand side.  In other words, the trash can and quit icons are mostly cut off
>> on the right, and appear on the left!
>>
>> Unfortunately, the mouse won't go past a boundary on the left hand side to
>> access them, even if I did want to live with the display shifted like this.
>>  This issue first appeared for me in Gutsy as well, and nothing seems to be
>> able to move the display back to the left a little.  I have tried xrandr,
>> xvidtune, custom modelines, etc.  Only Feisty and below have the 1680x1050
>> screen centered properly.  With an Imac, there are no manual screen movement
>> adjustments that can be made.  It feels as though something is locking out
>> any attempt to center the screen, since the resolution seems correct.
>>
>> Interestingly enough, if I take a screen-shot and view it, the screen-shot
>> looks perfect, but isn't centered properly in real life.  I've tried the
>> usual dkpg-reconfigure routines, but it's not that the resolution is
>> incorrect, it is just that the screen want to dive over to the right and
>> wrap back to the left....
>>
>> [lspci]
>> 0000:f0:10.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV34M
>> [GeForce FX Go5200] [10de:0329] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
>>        Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Unknown device [10de:0010]
>>
>>
>

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[Hardy-Alpha 4 PPC] Screen resolution correct but shifted to the right
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