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Re: iMac G4- etch install iso - xorg



advise installing a simple sarge system
with xfree86 and then upgrade to testing/etch,
going through the xorg transition.


(you may wish  to save your etc/sources.list, it has
security. make sure you get
the security mirror as well as the main one. also
those refers to http: http, not http: ftp (it 
fails to find server frequently). i also use
a backup mirror but optionally because it download
multi megabytes of these pdiff files.)

i am sure there are other ways but this one worked
(for me) i did this
before early in the year and they worked it
out to go smoothly, at least on the newer (to me)
machines. 

unless there is something someone knows about nvidia
card, i don't have one, but i looked at your log
file and it looks normal, more or less (font path
errors).

on my new world mac i replaced the system
a month ago and the only way i could get
to go was   even i tried again on a scratch
partition a few weeks ago and i still could
not get xorg, that is straight away etch install.

i am sure part of the difficulty is the new release
yet which is still beta ...

now i am trying to do the same with older
power macs. its a pain sort of but it works,


--- Ralf Saalm�ller <ralf@mail.ralf-saalmueller.de>
wrote:

> Hello at DebianPPC,
> 
> after I was done with Ubuntu DapperDrake on my iMac
> G4/800 I tried the 
> current Debain etch install-iso and was very
> pleased. Not only that 
> everything worked, it worked as expected. Even Xorg,
> which don't start.
> 
> What about the following message that keeps
> disturbing the terminal / 
> console:
> ieee1394: sbp2: aborting sbp2 command
> sr 0:0:0:0:
> 	command: Read Capacity (10): 25 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 00 00 00
> 
> Looks like it found the external Firewire DVD
> burner. I don't care if 
> it's a bug or a feature, but how can I stop it
> without disconnecting 
> the external burner?
> 
> Back to Xorg. It won't start out of the box. Same
> thing as Ubuntu, I 
> managed that somehow. But now I don't have a glue
> and I don't find any 
> information within the Xorg.0.log what's gone wrong.
> Furthermore, I 
> can't change the xorg.conf via dpkg-reconfigure.
> Xorg.0.log as 
> attachment.
> 
> Thank you for any help.
> Ralf
> 
> > 
> 
> ---
> Ralf Saalm�ller
> Amonsh�he 26
> 97437 Hassfurt
> Germany
> 
> PPCNUX-TEAM
> http://www.ppcnux.org


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