PowerMac G4 MDD/867, graphics card nVidia GForce 4 MX (NV17).
Installed Lubuntu 14.04 from alternate install CD. After install, boot progress:
No yaboot menu, get about 10 lines of text, and a change from black background to white,
get simplified blue background (lunubtu) plymouth (plain text and 4 small dots for the animation).
Error message across the plymouth screen: "nouveau: invalid ROM content," plus, "nouveau returns -22"
screen goes black, with mouse pointer only visible.
No other activity. I can get to terminal with Ctrl-Alt-F1.
When I try to run sudo Xorg -configure, It crashes with DRM: failed to load device (maybe related to above errors?)
I'm not desperate - yet!
But, I have never been able to successfully boot to X with any distro that uses nouveau instead of nv driver.
The only reasonably-current distro I can get to work right now is Debian 6.0.9 with nv.
I've tried nomodeset as yaboot/kernel option - no change.
I'm really hoping that some nouveau expert can help me get to a modern distro!!!
Installed Lubuntu 14.04 from alternate install CD. After install, boot progress:
No yaboot menu, get about 10 lines of text, and a change from black background to white,
get simplified blue background (lunubtu) plymouth (plain text and 4 small dots for the animation).
Error message across the plymouth screen: "nouveau: invalid ROM content," plus, "nouveau returns -22"
screen goes black, with mouse pointer only visible.
No other activity. I can get to terminal with Ctrl-Alt-F1.
When I try to run sudo Xorg -configure, It crashes with DRM: failed to load device (maybe related to above errors?)
I'm not desperate - yet!
But, I have never been able to successfully boot to X with any distro that uses nouveau instead of nv driver.
The only reasonably-current distro I can get to work right now is Debian 6.0.9 with nv.
I've tried nomodeset as yaboot/kernel option - no change.
I'm really hoping that some nouveau expert can help me get to a modern distro!!!