Xorg not working on PPC

[Tormod Volden]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> However very obviously I'd assume PPC handling to be quite a bit different to x86 handling.
> So, as venerable Alex said, your first stop should be PPC-knowledgeable groups.
>
> That said, the lockup / garbled screen might perhaps be caused by AGP issues.
> On x86, AGP support often is provided by the intel-agp.ko module.
> If that module is not available (or perhaps a driver setting is provided to disable it),
> then driver operation falls back to PCI-only, which might improve reliability.
>
> Also, you should check whether Xorg reports DRI as enabled
> (and if so, try setting it to disabled, since that might be problematic too).

DRI is broken on PPC, AFAIK. Otherwise, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCFAQ#ATI_Rage_128_cards and for instance
http://www.mintppc.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1137&start=40
(ojordan is doing a good job trying to keep PPC ports alive).

Tormod