Re: XF86Config-4 for 266 MHz iMac
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.
Anyway, what I've found and waht has worked for people on the list, is
that the hsync has to be right around 60. So make the hsync 59-63,
that should get something going.
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