User:Walt

Walter Justen

About

I'm based in Germany in a town near Cologne. Working as a Senior System Engineer / Admin since more than ten years with Linux. My first distro was RedHat 4.2 and i'm using Fedora since version 1.0.

Contact

• Email: walt AT <this domain>
• Fedora Account: walt
• IRC: waltJ on freenode (#fedora-bugzappers #fedora-ppc #fedora-de)
• Location: Kerpen, Germany

Activities within Fedora

• Architectures / PowerPC
  
• Bug Zappers
  

Events

• 2010
  • 21.08 - 22.08.09 FrOSCon 2010: St. Augustin, Germany

Documentation

Issues with Fedora 12 PPC

NVIDIA GeForce4 MX

The X11 video-nv driver is replaced by the video-nouveau as the default graphics driver for NVIDIA video cards. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NouveauAsDefault for more information. Unfortunately nouveau doesn't work for the NVIDIA video card used in the Power Mac G4 MDD with dual 867 Mhz CPU. You need to switch back to nv.

Check that the nv driver is installed. If not install it:

# yum install xorg-x11-drv-nv

Now you need to disable the nouveau driver. Check that the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf exists. If not create it:

# vi /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf

Add:

blacklist nouveau

Check that mkinitrd is installed. If you have a Fedora minimal installation you need to install it.

# yum install mkinitrd

Create new initrd:

# mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)

Reboot System:

# reboot

Re-configure you display:

# system-config-display --reconfig