Re: Problems starting X-Window
Hi Alberto.
I must say that what you proposed doesn't work on a Motorola PowerPC.
It's got a Cirrus Logic chip.
Instead you need to download the SVGA server from somehwere (It's not
supported by Debian) and try to get it to work.
I've downloaded Xbh, which should do the job, but I haven't gotten it to
work yet. All it does is start up, with a not very nice screen. I think I'll
need to recompile X with some changes :-(
Anyway, thanks for the input.
Regards,
Steven.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alberto Varesio" <alberto.varesio@pmail.net>
To: "Steven van de Beek" <svdbeek@free.fr>
Cc: <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: Problems starting X-Window
> > Steven van de Beek wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just installed Debian on my PowerPC (Motorola machine. Used to run
NT and
> > later AIX - no Mac).
> > I can't start X, though.
> > It says /dev/fb0 - no such device.
> > The device definition is there (Along with fb0current and
fb0autodetect - up
> > to fb7) and I tried them all.
> > I tried fbset, but it also comes back with no such device.
> > If used MAKEDEV to recreate the fb's - to no avail.
> >
> > I have no separate video card. I'm using the one on the motherboard.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me what to do next?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Steven.
>
> Hi,
> next have a look at http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~ingvarha/43p/43p.html 8-)
> It deals with LinuxPPC dist., but you should be able to adapt the infos to
> Debian. Chapter 9 is on installing X on the E15.
>
> Greetings
>
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