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#1 2010-06-22 01:19:41

mianka
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From: BE LEUVEN
Registered: 2006-05-30
Posts: 230

(SOLVED) Xorg uninstallable on Imac G5

After having succeeded in installing Arch on my G5 Imac , I am hitting the next problem: It is asolutely impossible to install X on this machine (though it installed fine on a G4 Ibook)
The card is a Nvidia GeForce Fx Go 5200 (NV34M)

The nv driver does not install:
xf86-video-nv conflicts with xorg-headers Remove Xorg headers? Y
error : unresolvable package conflicts detected/Failed to prepare transaction(conflicting dependencies)

vesa driver:

(EE)Failed to load module "nv"
(EE) "        "       "      "        "fbdev"
(EE)No drivers available

Fatal server error :
no screen found.

What's going on?

Last edited by mianka (2010-06-22 22:48:49)

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#2 2010-06-22 07:31:53

skualito
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Registered: 2008-11-19
Posts: 203

Re: (SOLVED) Xorg uninstallable on Imac G5

Hi, you could enable [testing], upgrade your system and install the nv driver without conflicts. I don't know why the nv driver in [extra] conflicts with xorg-headers, but for sure the one it [testing] doesn't. Though I can not test it myself because I have an ati card (ibook g4).
Also, if you go this way, beware that you'll have to modify yaboot.conf, replacing (only) the last two instances of  root=/dev/hd?? by root=/dev/sd??
Then run ybin as root, and reboot.
From what i see with my system, enabling [testing] doesn't really bring issues.

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#3 2010-06-22 22:49:36

mianka
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From: BE LEUVEN
Registered: 2006-05-30
Posts: 230

Re: (SOLVED) Xorg uninstallable on Imac G5

Thank you skualito, it works.

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