Re: XF86Config-4 for 266 MHz iMac
On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 21:55, Chris Tillman wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 01:31:33PM -0400, 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.
> >
>
> I just submitted a bug to xserver-xfree86 regarding this. The xserver's
> calculations seem to be at odds with the iMac's philosophy.
Well, somehow I don't see Branden adding special default values for any
existing hardware... wouldn't a note about this in the installation docs
or somewhere do?
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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