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[libraryeye <libraryeye@xxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew  Sorry for your ongoing troubles. Like I said I'm a linux newbie and
have exhausted my know-how on this problem.
I'll be honest- I installed linux (starting with Fedora, then trying Debian,
Opensuse, community Ubuntu jaunty…) on my iMac to see if I'd be comfortable
running Linux on a cheap pc laptop (the Compaq I bought) at first I was
amazed it worked and frustrated with screen problem. All the help I found in
the forums from Richard and others really impressed upon me the sense of
community among Linux users and I felt very comfortable getting a PC laptop
and not having to splurge on a Mac laptop. I started with Fedora on my
laptop - but the constant troubleshooting convinced me Fedora is really not
for a casual user like myself and I switched to Mint which overall Im very
happy with.

In the meantime, between Fedora 10 & 11 and also with various things in Suse
and Ubuntu not working (at one point I had successfully setup a quarduple
boot with Mac OS Tiger, Ubuntu 9.04, OpenSuse, and Fedora 11 all running on
my ppc G5!) I started to feel that a basic working powerPC linux OS was too
difficult for me to maintain (I kept having trouble with media files, even
open source FLACS and OGGS playback in Fedora and OpenSuse, couldn't
RIP/Encode in Ubuntu; GNASH failed  to play most FLASH content and there's
no FLASH from Adobe for PPC linux, etc)

I'm not a developer. I'm just a desktop user (writer, artist, web / email
user, etc) wanting a working desktop and very attracted to open source
idea/l .  However, in the short time I've been using linux, the already
dwindling support for PowerPC has shrunk further, and more directly  I
finally accepted that everything I need to do worked better in Tiger (I'll
never pay to upgrade my 5 year old iMac to Leopard) and so just recently
removed all Linux partitions from my iMac.

That being said, just the other night for some reason I was thinking of
installing whatever next version of Linuc for PPC update comes along (not
Fedora though, I think since 11 came out it seems my PPC install just wasn't
working right)

and, I must add- on my laptop I bought in April I almost never boot into
Windows. I used  to rarely sometimes when running Fedora 10; after a certain
Fedora 11 update my display wouldn't work so I switched to Mint and I love
using Linux compared to Windows on a PC (I've always disliked Microsoft
products- functionality and design).  But on my PowerPC, I think I'm
sticking with an old Apple OS till the thing just stops working. However, it
looks like OpenSuse (which I believe the open source community has some
understandable issues with due to some Novell-Microsoft dealing) will still
be releasing their upcoming OS for PPC and also perhaps the recently release
Ubuntu will be ported to PPC by the community and resolve this display
problem)

Sorry to be a naysayer, but my experience and  hate to say is that if you
want on OS that 'just works' on your old iMac (same model I have) the only
thing  know of is OSX. If you really want to get into Linux, maybe someday
pick up a cheap PC to play with.

RAy


On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Matthew <mrw14@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> sorry to repost...the display is centered and looks great. The problem
> of the flickering screen ( dashes appearing rapidly) is not a major
> problem but is annoying so would be grateful if someone can help. It
> seems to appear after about 20 mins and if i switch off leave for a time
> it disappears on reboot.
>
> --
> [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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