Re: PowerMac 7200
On (20/02/04 08:26), Christopher Gill wrote:
> 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?
>
> ==>
>
> (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
Everything on this excerpt looks fine. The lines to look at are those
that begin (EE).
Incidentally, it is better not to highjack an existing thread but start
a new one. Many people use MUA's that support threading and find it
frustrating.
Regards
Clive
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