Re: XFree86 4.0 binaries
Brendan J Simon wrote:
> The X server does get further on the G4. It recognises the video
> chip fine but it gets stuck with the pointer and keyboard devices.
> I went to the XFree86 Australian mirror and read the online documentation
> for 4.0. It says for USB mouse to use either "usb" or "auto" protocols.
But that's for PCs. Aren't mouse and keyboard abstracted on the new Macs to
look like 'standard' ones?
> I get an awful bright green background with the normal X cursor stuck
> in the middle of the screen.
You need Option "UseFBDev" to cure the green.
> Do I need a kernel parameter option ? ie. video=.... ?
No, I assume you're already using aty128fb.
> The keyboard section in XF86Config has "XkbModel" set to "amiga" and the
> "XkbLayout" set to "de_CH". There is no documentation (that I could find on > the Australian mirror) on these options. I set the XkbModel to "mac" and
> the XkbLayout to "en_AU". Are these options OK (I doubt it as I guessed
> these)
The model should be "macintosh" IIRC.
Is the australian layout really different from American or UK?
Anyway, my tree is probably missing the patch(es) to make Xkb work on Macs -
use Option "XkbDisable" to get the same as with 3.9.18 .
Michel
PS: Mac users might want to have a look at
http://entropy.crashing.org/~howarth/XFree86_v4.0/
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Apologies are so hard to give. Would you accept some potatoes instead?
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Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Earthling, CS student and Free Software enthusiast
Debian (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86, Team *AMIGA*, AUGS
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