Re: XF86Config-4 for 266 MHz iMac
Hi Tara,
in order to find the correct modeline for your monitor, xvidtune may
help you (but you need at least something on your screen, even
distorted, and a working mouse first). The problem with the mouse may
come from your kernel not being correctly configured (it was my problem).
I'm using a 2.4.18 kernel on a G3 White&Blue. Here are some of my config
options related to either USB, the MOUSE, or mac IO. I don't know the
exact meaning of most of them (it can be found in the help of the kernel
config utility), and because we don't have the same machine, some
options may not apply to your iMac. Yet it may help you track down the
differences from your own kernel config:
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_X=1024
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_Y=768
CONFIG_ADB_CUDA=y
CONFIG_ADB=y
CONFIG_ADB_MACIO=y
CONFIG_INPUT_ADBHID=y
CONFIG_MAC_ADBKEYCODES=y
CONFIG_MAC_EMUMOUSEBTN=y
CONFIG_MAC_HID=y
CONFIG_USB=y
CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y
CONFIG_USB_OHCI=y
CONFIG_USB_AUDIO=m
CONFIG_USB_ACM=m
CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=m
CONFIG_USB_HID=y
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL=m
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_VISOR=m
If you don't know how to compile a new kernel (it's quite common, and
quite easy as well, as soon as you observe some simple sanity rules),
the Kernel Howto is a very good starting point
(http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html). The sources can be
directly downloaded as debian packages with apt-get.
Hope it helps you.
Francois
Tara Piorkowski wrote:
I have woody installed on my 266MHz iMac and it's running great, except
that I cannot for the life of me get XFree86 properly configured. I have
done tons of reading and a fair amount of playing (dpkg-reconfigure,
trying to compile Xautocfg, looking for precompleted files, etc.) but
cannot get it to work. The two main problems seem to be using the USB
mouse and finding out the appropriate HorizSync range (VertRefresh seems
to be 74-117). I had it running on SuSE PPC 7.1 using SAX2 but, alas,
wiped the drive without copying the configuration file.
Anyway, I'd be most appreciative if someone could point me in the right
direction for getting this configured. I'm very anxious to run woody on
that old iMac.
Thanks.
Tara
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