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Re: Xpmac on Powerbook 1400c



I got the default framebuffer server included with debian to run by changing
the default color depth. If I recall correctly I had to turn it up to 16 or
more.

On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:31:37AM +0200, "Berg, Bj?rn" wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> although Debian does not support the Powerbooks 1400 series, because of
> their NUBUS technology, I installed it and get it running without problems.
> But now I want to install X.
> All efforts to get the Framebufferdevice running have taken into no effect.
> Then I heard of Xpmac and that it is for Old World Macs.
> But a Debian-package is not available. So I took the rpm from LinuxPPC Q4
> and make a deb with alien. The I set some symlinks: One is:
> /usr/bin/X11/Xpmac -> X
> But when Itry to start X with startx, I get the following Error:
> <--- snip --->
> hostname: Host name lookup failure
> WooWoo
> Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'
> Fatal server error:
> ioctl 0x7667 failed: invalid argument
> <--- snap --->
> 
> What can I do??
> 
> 
> Greetz :-))
> 
> Bj?rn
> 
> ----------------------------------
> Bj?rn Berg
> http://www.bbinternet.de 
> 
> 
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