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On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Raymond Rehayem
<libraryeye@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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.
>>
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>> [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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