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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

[hardy] X server does not start on G3 iMac.

Bug #196129 reported by Niels Kristian Bech Jensen on 2008-02-27

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #22976: Live CD boots to a black screen on Blueberry G3 iMac. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned
Nominated for Hardy by Niels Kristian Bech Jensen

Bug Description

The X server does not start on my slotloading G3 iMac with the 20080227 daily-live desktop CD for PowerPC. The last line shown on the screen is "Running local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local)".

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Niels Kristian Bech Jensen (nkbjensen) wrote on 2008-02-28:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf from 20080227 PPC Desktop CD. Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain)

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Niels Kristian Bech Jensen (nkbjensen) wrote on 2008-03-01:

Modified /etc/X11/xorg.conf from Dapper. Edit (4.0 KiB, text/plain)

Here is a working xorg.conf file. It is from Dapper modified to avoid black screen. I have copied it to Hardy (booting from 20080301 PPC Desktop CD and pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2 when it stopped) using a flash drive. The startx command gives me a working system.

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Niels Kristian Bech Jensen (nkbjensen) wrote on 2008-03-02:

The minimum changes to get a working system on a G3 slotloading iMac from the default (autogenerated) /etc/X11/xorg.conf file on the hardy 20080301 desktop cd are these:

--- /tmp/xorg.conf.orig 2008-03-02 07:17:06.000000000 +0000
+++ /etc/X11/xorg.conf 2008-03-02 07:22:16.236317678 +0000
@@ -30,12 +30,13 @@

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
- BusID "PCI:6:3:0"
Option "UseFBDev" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
+ HorizSync 60-60
+ VertRefresh 75-117
EndSection

Section "Screen"

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Niels Kristian Bech Jensen (nkbjensen) wrote on 2008-03-04:

To get X working with the video=ofonly boot option I also have to set "UseFBDev" to "false" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf (the boot splash only works with video=ofonly).

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Niels Kristian Bech Jensen (nkbjensen) wrote on 2008-04-13:

Any chance getting this bug fixed before the hardy release?