Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen
I have the black screen problem on my iBook. It happens about halfway through the boot process, when kernel modesetting is enabled. I left a bug report:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90220
A workaround is to boot with parameters that disabled KMS, but if you have X running you'll have an unaccelerated desktop.
Regards,
Dan
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On Thu, 4/30/15, Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX 5200, black screen
To: "luigi burdo" <intermediadc@hotmail.com>
Cc: "Risto Suominen" <risto.suominen@gmail.com>, "PowerPC List Debian" <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org>
Date: Thursday, April 30, 2015, 1:35 PM
I
don’t have X.org on this machine. I’m trying to keep
it as simple as possible, so I did not install any desktop
task. Just the basic virtual terminal console.
Even so, I get the usual text
streaming by during the boot process, but then a blank
screen. The system is up — I can ssh into it, but no
console.
Anybody know
what’s causing it?
Rick
On Apr
30, 2015, at 5:02 AM, luigi burdo <intermediadc@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> I start have
this issue on Jessie
> but the black
screen is the simptom i face because Xorg make a hard crash
(reported to xorg devs).
> switch to tty
... and try to make xinit or start x .
>
> On wheezy delete the xorg.conf and
probably you will fix it
>
> Luigi Burdo
>
> > Subject: Re: PowerMac G5, GeForce FX
5200, black screen
> > From: rbthomas@pobox.com
> > Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 02:49:42
-0700
> > CC: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> > To: risto.suominen@gmail.com
> >
> > Hi
Risto,
> >
> >
I’m seeing this as well. I have a PowerMac11,2 (dual core
G5 7GB RAM)
> >
>
> Did you ever discover how to fix it without holding
back on the kernel level?
> >
> > Anybody? All clues are welcome!
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Rick
> >
> > On Dec 1, 2014, at 6:16 AM, Risto
Suominen <risto.suominen@gmail.com>
wrote:
> >
> >
> Hi,
> > >
> > > This is probably an old issue,
possibly discussed before, even on this list.
> > >
> > >
I've been holding my linux-image as version 3.2.0-2 to
avoid the problem.
> > >
> > > So, the problem: after upgrading
to 3.2.0-4, X display is not working.
>
> > According to Xorg.log everything is as before, but
the screen remains
> > > black. (At
boot the text console is ok.)
> > >
> > > I'm using kernel command
line:
> > >
>
> > video=TV-1:d
> > >
> > > and xorg.conf:
> > >
> > >
Section "Device"
> > >
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
> > > BusID
"PCI:240:16:0"
> > >
Driver "nouveau"
> > >
Option "Monitor-TV-1" "Configured
Monitor"
> > > Option
"NoAccel" "true"
> > > EndSection
>
> >
> > > Section
"Monitor"
> > >
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
> > > Option "Ignore"
"true"
> > >
EndSection
> > >
> > > Section "Screen"
> > > Identifier "Default
Screen"
> > > Device
"Configured Video Device"
>
> > EndSection
> > >
> > > In addition, I've tried to
add /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau.conf:
> >
>
> > > nouveau noaccel=1
> > >
> > >
It makes no difference.
> > >
> > > I'm using Wheezy (7.7) with
all latest packages.
> > >
> > > The machine is PowerMac7,3
(2x1,8 GHz, 1,25 GB RAM).
> > >
> > > Anyone else seen this?
> > >
> > >
Risto
> > >
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