Re: Adjust imac G3 monitor?

[Nicholas Chase <nick.nchase21@gmail.com>]

Thanks for your answer, Gunther.  I'm still new,  could you (or anyone for that matter) please make that a bit more user friendly?  I understand that I'll have to "hold some packages", but I don't know how to do that.  I've tried editing the /etc/apt/sources.list before and it failed probably because I didn't hold those packages.  I run

$ cat /etc/apt/preferences 
and it says "no file found".  How do I hold packages?  Where can I find this in the documentation?  Thanks for your patience.  This computer is my Grandma's old computer that I rescued from an early grave with Debian, and I'm hoping to keep it as up-to-date as possible as long as possible.  

I'm still hoping to find a way to adjust the monitor.  It's really crooked and doesn't use all the screen area.  Any Ideas, anyone?
Nicholas Chase

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 15:13, Gunther Furtado <gunfurtado@gmail.com> wrote:

Em Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:26:13 -0700,
Nicholas Chase <nick.nchase21@gmail.com> escreveu:

> How do I adjust the monitor on my imac?  The screen's really crooked
> at the moment.  I was also wondering if anyone has had success getting
> Squeeze running on a G3 iMac, particularly an early 2001 model.
>

I am running sid in a G3 iMac. I installed lenny,
edited /etc/apt/sources.list and upgraded to sid. In order to make X
work, I've hold some packages:

$ cat /etc/apt/preferences
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 501

Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 701

Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 101

Package: xserver-xorg-video-r128
Pin: release v=6.8.0-1
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: xserver-xorg-input-all
Pin: release v=1:7.3+20
Pin-Priority: 1001

Package: xserver-xorg-video-all
Pin: release v=1:7.3+20
Pin-Priority: 1001

the hardware is:
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
cpu             : 750CXe
temperature     : 22-24 C (uncalibrated)
clock           : 600.000000MHz
revision        : 34.20 (pvr 0008 2214)
bogomips        : 49.92
timebase        : 24960000
platform        : PowerMac
model           : PowerMac4,1
machine         : PowerMac4,1
motherboard     : PowerMac4,1 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh
detected as     : 256 (iMac "Flower Power")
pmac flags      : 00000010
L2 cache        : 256K unified
pmac-generation : NewWorld
Memory          : 768 MB

and

$ lspci | grep isplay
0000:00:10.0 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 Pro
Ultra TR

and my /etc/X11/xorg.conf is (some xvidtune could be necessary):

$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
## http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-770033.html
# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool,
using # values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades
*only* # if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the
xserver-xorg # package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically
updated # again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "abnt2"
Option "XkbLayout" "br"
#Option "XkbVariant" "intl"
#Option "XkbOptions" "lv3:ralt_switch"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
BusID "PCI:0:16:0"
Driver "r128"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
Horizsync 28-96
Vertrefresh 50-76
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
SubSection "Display"
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Disable "glx"
Disable "dri"
EndSection

[...]

Abraço,

--

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Gunther Furtado
Curitiba - Paran__ - Brasil
gunfurtado@gmail.com


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