Bug 19342

Summary: PB 12" G4: Pointer to flat panel table invalid
Product: xorg Reporter: monnier
Component: Driver/nouveauAssignee: Nouveau Project <nouveau>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: critical    
Priority: medium    
Version: 7.3 (2007.09)   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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i915 platform: i915 features:
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Description monnier 2008-12-30 22:45:13 UTC 
Created attachment 21579 [details]
org.conf

I just installed Debian on my PowerBook G4 12", but my X server refuses to start.  I've appended my Xorg.log and xorg.conf.

This is with a Debian testing system with the following (relevant) packages:

   # dpkg -l '*nouveau' 'drm*' 'xserver-xorg'
   Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
   | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
   |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
   ||/ Name                          Version                                Description
   +++-===============================================================================================================================
   un  drm-modules                   <none>                                 (no description available)
   ii  drm-modules-2.6.26-1-powerpc  2.4.1+git+20081116+930c0e7-1+2.6.26-12 DRM rendering modules for Linux (kernel 2.6.26-1-powerpc).
   ii  drm-modules-source            2.4.1+git+20081116+930c0e7-1           Source for the DRM kernel rendering modules
   ii  xserver-xorg                  1:7.3+18                               the X.Org X server
   ii  xserver-xorg-video-nouveau    1:0.0.10~git+20081028+cea05e1-1        X.Org X server -- Nouveau display driver (experimental)

Reading this list it appears that the `nouveau' driver should work on my
machine (tho I'm not quite sure yet whether I'll be able to use the
composite-video output to my TV set).  So I guess I'm doing something
stupid, but I can't seem to figure out what.  I tried with and without the
UseFBDev option, but it makes no difference.  Any idea what I might
be missing?


        Stefan


# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc104"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
        BusID           "PCI:0:16:0"
        Driver          "nouveau"
        Option          "UseFBDev"              "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Monitor         "Configured Monitor"
EndSection
Comment 1 Danny 2008-12-31 06:44:16 UTC 
You need to update the DDX, the version you used contained something that broke on powerbooks, it is fixed again in a later release.

danny
Comment 2 Stuart Bennett 2009-01-13 16:01:34 UTC 
As noted in comment 1, this is fixed.

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