Re: XF4.0.1 on Debian and PowerMac problems....
At 8:54 PM +0100 12/5/00, Michel Dänzer wrote:
"W. Crowshaw" wrote:
Since I could get X 3.3.6 running on my Debian 2.2.17 installed
PowerMac 7500 (4MB VRAM, 604e ),
What was the problem with 3.3.6?
Pretty much the same problem. X wouldn't come up, either at startup
or startx. Sure, I believe start up tries to bring up X with xdm,
but all that happened was the screened blink black three times and
showed the login prompt. I posted a description of this problem to
the powerpc-debian list, but no one seemed to be able to solve the
problem.
I also tried to used X 3.3.6 and its XF86Config file installed with
LinuxPPC. The Xserver XF86_FBDev faired no better than debian's. I
also tried using LinuxPPC XPmac, which sort of worked. Gnustep (not
Gnome which was installed) was brought up, but the pointer was
completely dead.
I decided to try upgrading X to 4.0.1. I followed roughly the directions
given at http://linuxppc.org/documentation/xf4/. However, I have
encountered a number of problems.
First and foremost, X doesn't come up. Either at system startup or
startx-ing, I get the follow message:
[...]
First of all, 4.0.1 is already rather old, 4.0.2 is waiting around the corner.
The current Debian 4.0.1 X packages should work fine on PPC and follow the
XFree86 development in CVS. Installing those packages might involve an upgrade
to woody, but as you seem to build X yourself you could as well built the
packages yourself.
Hmm...I didn't know that. Could you point me to those 4.0.2 debs?
Oh..and before I upgrade to woody I would like to get potato up and
working first, if that's possible.
Now I am pretty sure I edited the file /etc/X11/XF86Config correctly
following the new specifications.
Yes, looks good.
The most important changed seems to be the BUSID in the "Device Section."
Running "cat /proc/pci", I got two BusID alternatives: either "PCI:0:11:0"
for Bandit or "PCI:0:16:0" for Grand. Alternating between both options
seems to make no difference.
Have you tried without the bus ID? :)
I tried it without, but I just got 2 more error messages:
(EE) FBDev(0): No Display subsection in Screen section "ScreenOne"
for depth/fbbpp 32/32
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
But, as you can see from my previous post XF86Config file, there is
definitely a 'display' subsection of the 'Screen' section.
Please post the output of lspci. For graphics hardware which isn't visible as
a standard PCI video device, the bus ID isn't necessary. Maybe it's even the
problem in your case.
O.K. here is the output of lspci -vvx
begin lspci output ************************
00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. Bandit PowerPC host bridge (rev 03)
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr-
DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32 set, cache line size 08
00: 6b 10 01 00 16 00 80 22 03 00 00 06 08 20 00 00
10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00:10.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. Grand Central I/O (rev 02)
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr-
DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR+
Latency: 32 set, cache line size 08
Region 0: Memory at f3000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
00: 6b 10 02 00 16 00 00 82 02 00 00 ff 08 20 00 00
10: 00 00 00 f3 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
end lspci output**************************
My second problem with installed X 4.0.1 relates to xfs. Previously,
using X 3.3.6, the font server would always come up on startup, even
when X itself failed. With X 4.0.1, now xfs also fails. On startup I
get the following message:
"Starting X font server: xfs/usr/bin/X11/xfs: error in loading shared
libraries: libXfont.so./: cannot open shared object file: No such
^
I assume this should be a '1'?
Yes, that was a typo. It really is '1' on 'one.'
file or directory"
Have you installed the 4.x libraries and run ldconfig after that?
Which libraries are you referring to? I definitely didn't run ldconfig.
If you can provide me any information, I would greatly appreciate it.
I am almost going to give up on Debian and move to LinuxPPC because I
can get the Xserver 3.3.6 at least running on that install.
Let's hope we can keep you on board...
Michel
Yes...I would very much like to stay on board, because if I can
actually use debian, I want to offer whatever services as I can to
the debian project.
Thanks,
--
W. Crowshaw
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