Re: XF86Config-4 for 266 MHz iMac
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 10:44:59PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 21:55, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Well, somehow I don't see Branden adding special default values for any
> existing hardware... wouldn't a note about this in the installation docs
> or somewhere do?
Good idea, I'll put that in.
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