Re: No X Windows on PowerBook G3 Help!
>> Because I am a newbee and understand that recompiling the 2.2.20 kernel
>> would involve a lot of effort and time, I would like to know if the original
>> kernel in use can work with my Wallstreet by just making some adjustments in
>> the XF86Config-4 file or not.
>
> Nope, in the case I described X cannot use the video chipset at all so the
> X server gives up. Without some cleanup of the PCI resource allocation
> this won't change.
>
> Please note that I'm just guessing at the cause of your problems here.
> What I'd need to see to confirm that guess is the output of lspci -vv run
> as root (please send by PM).
>
>> If it is hopeless to follow this way, I will have to patch and compile and
>> whatever a new Kernel (v.2.4.10 ?). At the moment I have still no idea how
>
> If my guess is right, you will need a patched kernel. How you get that
> patched kernel is quite another issue. Michel already mentioned the proper
> way to search for and install 2.4 kernels on powerpc.
>
> I'll have to check the Debian kernel sources to see if a patch is already
> available in 2.4 kernels (for all I know, 2.4 kernels could deal with PCI
> resource conflicts a lot better than 2.2 kernels).
>
>> to do that. I think I will have to read a lot of HOWTO's and spend a lot of
>> precious time with this matter.
>
> It took a lot of precious time to debug the problem and come up with a
> patch the first time around on my Lombard. Moreover, it takes still some
> more time to keep tracking new kernel releases and adapt the patch to the
> new releases. Pardon me if I don't keep up with this all the time.
>
>> Michaels Hint uses a lot of techie expressions I never have heard of before,
>> but they sound great.
>>
>> Why hasn't anybody made a precompiled binary? I will never understand this
>> aspect of Debian.
>
> But there are precompiled kernel packages. If the patch in question isn't
> in there it's because it only affected a small number of people, and I've
> not pushed very hard for it to get included.
>
> Anyway, it's all guesswork so let's see some real proof the bug is as I
> suspect it is ...
>
> Michael
>
Hi Michael and Michel!
It works!
With Michels advise I found a new 2.4.18 kernel with:
apt-cache search kernel-image-2.4.*powerpc
and downloaded it with:
apt-get install -d kernel-image-2.4.18-powerpc (-d for download only without
installation).
After finding the downloaded .deb file in /usr/var/cache/apt/archives, I
just had to install it as root with:
dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.18...........powerpc.deb
and in unbelievable quick and astonishing 10 seconds the the new kernel was
installed into the right folder (/boot) just ready to be used.
After having copied the new kernel to my linux kernel folder in my system
folder of my MacOS9 partition, BootX was able to boot into the new kernel.
Trying out some different settings of the XF86Config-4 file with:
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
I found the only working driver was the "fbdev" driver, needing no System
RAM, but needing /dev/input/mice.
After typing X or startx and then Enter, the windows manager started fine
and worked properly. The mouse movements are quite quick and not easy to
control but I hope to be able to adjust them somewhere.
To avoid having the x-windows manager starting up every time at bootup I
commented out the line in the file "default-display-manager" in /etc/X11
which stopped xdm (or gdm) to load.
Now I will start to check all the other functions, before I will install the
interesting software. (The compiling of the benh kernel I will try out
sometime in the future.
Thanks for your valuable hints
befu
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