At 4:14 PM +0200 8/16/2000, Fredrik Holmqvist wrote:
Hello linuxppc2000 and found out that it uses Xpmac.rage128.usb.rev9 instead of XF68_FBDev that debian does. so, I copied xpmac to a mac partition reinstalled debian and removed the file named X (I am on the mac now so I dont exactly where it is, somewhere around /etc, maybe inside /etc/x11) I put the xpmac file in the same dir as the XF68_FBDev file and made a symlink with the name X where the old X file was. and rebooted up in beautiful new desktop. well not really, when I rebooted, I came straight into xdm which couldn't start the Xserver properly, so before you reboot, make initdefault to start without x and start it manually instead as you can see I am NOT a linux expert, but this is how I did it, maybe it will work for you to.
Thanks for the advice Fredrik.. I did like you suggested and installed Xpmac, changed the symlink to X, fired it up, and Enlightenment popped up pretty as can be. Only one problem: no mouse!
I checked that /dev/mouse was symlinked to /dev/adbmouse, check. Mouse works on the console via GPM, so I know that's not the problem.. I understand that Xpmac doesn't use the XF86Config file, that it needs commandline options, so can someone tell me the commandline options to replace the "Protocol BusMouse, Buttons 2, Emulate3Button, Device /dev/adbmouse" options I have in XF86Config?
Or, alternatively, suggest a way to get XF86fbdev to recognize my modelines as valid (I gave my monitor's horizontal and vertical refreshes, and every resolution from 640x480 to 1024x768, it rejected them all!).
Or, and this may be the best, if Xfree4.01 has working support for the Mach64 chip in my RevC beige G3 desktop, point me to where I can get some debs/tarballs/whatever.
Thanks, Graeme --"It really is coming down to just Apple and IBM. If, for some reason, we make some giant mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter sort of a computer Dark Ages for about 20 years."
Steve Jobs, Playboy February 1985