Bug#685367: installation-report: Wheezy beta installed on powermac g4 900 MHz w/ ATI rage graphicscard
On Mon 20 Aug 2012 at 11:46:37 +0200, Andreas Glaeser wrote:
> The Installation went OK, but the graphical XFCE-Desktop was not usable, because the
> x-server was not workable. I actually had to start the system with the
> yaboot-command-line 'Linux init 1' to get a usable VT, once lightdm was installed. Else,
> when trying to start the x-server, there was just pixel-mud displayed in the lower half
> of the screen, the system froze.
> I tried x-autoconfiguration with 'X -configure' in the /etc/X11/ directory in single user
> mode, but this did not change the situation, doing manual alterations to xorg.conf did
> not change the situation either. So I attach the xorg.conf-file, I tried, too.
> Probably this is going to be reported against the r128 x-video-driver. X-logfiles are
> going to be included in the repoert then, as soon as I tried more detailed manual
> X-configuration and hat a look at Xorg.0.log myself. There are several option that might
> work, contained in the autogenerated xorg.conf -file.
> It might also be worth a try, using the framebuffer-device instead of r128.
This may not have anything to do with your problem but it caught my eye
in debian-user:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/08/msg00319.html
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