XFree86 - xorg questions
After a lot of false starts and general mucking-up, I've finally
installed a semi-working Debian Sarge system on my iMac. Specs that
might be relevant are:
15" FP display
800MHz PowerPC 7445 (G4) w/AltiVec
NVidia GeForce2 MX w/32MB DDR
SuperDrive (tray loading)
I've tried both Sarge and Etch and ran into problems with both of them,
and the same problems with Ubuntu that I had with Etch. Right now,
Sarge is installed and I've only updated and installed software from
Main. I'd like some help/advice on how to proceed.
The XFree86 problem is that the key to open the SuperDrive doesn't work.
There's no other way to open it, so I need to get this key working.
It works with xorg if I chose "Macintosh" keyboard from Gnome's
configuration, but that doesn't do anything with XFree86. One
difference in the .conf files that might be the issue (section "Input
Device"):
XFree86.conf:
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "macintosh"
xorg.conf:
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
The xorg problem is that I get no virtual terminals. When I Ctrl+Alt+Fn
I get ... a bright green screen! Ctrl+Alt+F7 brings me back to
xwindows without issue. But I would like the virtual terminals to work.
I guess it's a module that might be causing the problem, but I don't
know what. XFree86 doesn't have this problem. Differences in the .conf
files (section "Modules"):
XFree86.conf:
Load "GLcore"
Load "speedo"
xorg.conf:
Load "v4l"
Isn't speedo related to fonts? I don't know what "GLcore" or "v4l" are,
but all other modules loaded in both configs are identical. Both
configs use the "nv" driver, "DPMS", and have the same sync & refresh
rates and the same mode lines, and both use "O666" as the "DRI" mode.
(There's my problem -- 666! :-)
If anyone has any advice, I'd be much obliged. Knowing how to fix both
problems would be great, but if I can only fix one, so be it. I can
either stick with XFree86 if I can fix the keyboard layout or upgrade to
xorg if I can fix the console problem. I suppose eventually I might
have to know how to fix the xorg problem, but perhaps it won't be an
issue eventually or maybe this machine will just die before I need to
abandon XFree86. I tried playing around with xev and xmodmap (neither
of which I really understand yet), but nothing happens when I press the
key to open the drive. I don't care about the volume keys, I don't use
them anyway.
Also, if I do move to xorg, what is the preferred method? Is there a
backport, or should I install it from unstable?
TIA,
Michael
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