Re: has anyone solved the oldworld mac framebuffer problem yet?
> I'm trying to run debian on an old PowerMac 7600/132 with an Apple
> Multiple Scan 15 Display and I cannot fix the "screen wrap" problem
> described in previous posts. This is where the left ~15px are
> actually being displayed on the right.
I've not seen this problem anymore in the last maybe two years... Two
years and a half, actually, since some patches got applied to XFree in
November 2000.
> I've tried a number or settings in debconf, tried to apply a patch
> (from a
> .diff file provided by Michel ?) to fbdev, and exhaustively
> searched the web.
That would have been my patch, I think. I haven't had the need to use it
since, though... What are you running (kernel, XFree version)?
> If someone has this setup (it was pretty common) and has solved
> this problem, please reply. I'd also be interested to see your
> debconf file as I've been confused by a number of options (for
> instance, do i have to specify a monitor or just use generic?).
Here's the relevant part of my Xconfig:
# Apple "control":
Section "Device"
Identifier "Apple control"
Driver "fbdev"
Option "UseFBDev" "true"
Option "ShadowFB" "Off"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Apple control"
Monitor "Dell_P990"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
.. which means I'm running 1152x864 at 24 bpp (32, actually, in
reality...)
> I had a similar problem with my 9500, I solved it with the boot
> argument
>
> video=atyfb:vmode:6
This would only be useful if you had an ATI card, which doesn't seem to
be the case.
Cheers
Michel
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