Re: PowerMac 7200
Greetings, all.
I just installed Debian for the first time Wednesday evening (and joined
this list Thursday afternoon). I have Woody/3.0 running on a 7200/75,
booting from 'quik'. I used the bootX MacOS utility running from the
second hard disk to install and boot, getting me to mac-fdisk and tasksel
and dselect using apt-get.
All I need to do now is get XFree86 to work. I'm using the built-in 1MB
VRAM video hardware and an old 16" Color Display (fixed-frequency @
832x624) Apple monitor. Before I start posting entire log files, is
there anyone who has tips on getting my video hardware combination to
work with Debian/XFree86 based on just this excerpt?
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(II) Running in FRAMEBUFFER Mode
(**) FBDev(0): Depth 16, (--) framebuffer bpp 16
(==) FBDev(0): RGB weight 565
(==) FBDev(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) FBDev(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(II) FBDev(0): Hardware: platinum (vidmem: 1024k)
(II) FBDev(0): Checking Modes against framebuffer device...
(II) FBDev(0): mode "800x600" ok
(II) FBDev(0): mode "640x480" test failed
(II) FBDev(0): Checking Modes against monitor...
(--) FBDev(0): Virtual size is 832x624 (pitch 832)
(**) FBDev(0): Built-in mode "current": 57.6 MHz, 50.0 kHz, 75.0 Hz
(II) FBDev(0): Modeline "current" 57.60 832 880 944 1152 624 625 628
667 -hsync -vsync -csync
(++) FBDev(0): DPI set to (100, 100)
(II) Loading sub module "fb"
(II) LoadModule: "fb"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libfb.a
(II) Module fb: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation, version 0.1
(**) FBDev(0): Using "Shadow Framebuffer"
(II) Loading sub module "shadow"
(II) LoadModule: "shadow"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libshadow.a
(II) Module shadow: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.1.0.1, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation, version 0.1
Fatal server error:
AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0
<==
The xdm log has much the same output, but below the last (II) entry shown
above, it also has:
FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument
The only odd thing that I can see is that my monitor specification reads
70 dpi, instead of 100 dpi like XFree86 logged, although I don't know if
that makes a difference.
Any ideas?
TIA
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Rolando Abarca (rabarca@dcc.uchile.cl) wrote on 2/19/04 4:16 PM ->
>yes, it's possible. I have recently (last month) installed woody on my
>7200/90 and then apt-get dist upgraded it to testing.
>runs fine.
>I installed it using boot floppies, but from hard disk and then a
>net install:
>downloaded root.bin, linux.bin (I think that's the name of the 2.2.x
>kernel that comes with woody). Installed BootX, and choosed root.bin as
>ram disk. Everything else is well documented on the install guide.
>
>salud! (cheers!)
>moraleja: de los desechos quimicos salen superheroes o supervillanos
>
>On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Tomy Alarie wrote:
>
>> Hi, i'm new to this list and i want to know if it's possible to install
>> debian on powermac 7200 and how to ? Is there a site which explain that in
>> details ?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>>
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Power Macintosh 8500 w/ 500 MHz G3, 352 MB RAM
Power Macintosh 7200
Power Macintosh 7100 w/ 80 MHz 601, 72 MB RAM
Quadra 800 w/ 33 MHz 68040, 40 MB RAM
Performa 600 w/ Daystar Turbo '040, 24 MB RAM
Macintosh IIci w/ 25 MHz 68030, 8 MB RAM
PowerBook 165 w/ 33 MHz 68030, 8 MB RAM
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