Re: X on new G4 Dual 533
fheitka@attglobal.net wrote:
>
> I managed to get a debian system installed on my new G4 533 dual. I have
> only limited experience with debian. Please forgive my ignorance.
No worries, welcome Fred! :)
> I could not used the debian ramdisk image for some reason so
> I used the linuxPPC Q4 ramdisk. (The debian ramdisk would not go past the
> release notes and machine check screen.)
>
> So I had to moved the unconfigured.sh out of the way and do some
> configuring by hand.
Better use dpkg-reconfigure base-config .
> Can some one give me an example on how to install a major package like
> X11, off a cdrom using Apt? Apt always wants to go to the internet
> instead of the cdrom. This might be because I have no cdrom entry in my
> fstab.
That would probably have to be fixed first, and if you haven't chosen to get
packages from CD in the base config, you must run apt-cdrom when the CD is
inserted to add it to /etc/apt/sources.list .
> The system will not let me edit fstab even though I am "root" and
> the disk is read/right. Has anyone ever heard of this?
No, please give more information.
> I managed to install many packages using dpkg but this is definitely the
> hard way, right?
Yes...
> Using Apt how does one construct an install command from the package name.
> i.e. if I have package foo-1.4.4.deb how do I get the package to install
> from cdrom using apt?
It doesn't work with the debs directly, apt-cdrom and then apt-get install
<package name> .
> Also, lastly, is there an X server that works with the GForce2 video in my
> new G4?
4.x (in testing or unstable) has the nv driver, but I wouldn't expect that to
work on PPC yet. You'll most likely have to use an fbdev server. Does rivafb
work?
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
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