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[libraryeye <libraryeye@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, trouble with Gmail- I apologize if following is sent twice- currently
showing as 'draft' in Gmail so I'm hitting 'send' again. RR

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Raymond Rehayem
<libraryeye@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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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>>>
>>> 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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