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Re: PowerPC(MacLombard)XF86Config

Tom wrote:
New install on a Macintosh Lombard and I can't seem to get an XF86Config
file that will work (Xserver=XF68_FBDev).

Cna someone point me to a URL that has install instruction specific debian
on Mac laptops?

And is there a specific debian-user-ppc mail list?

thanks

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tom                             | "When we are born we cry that we have
tommyr@agora.rdrop.com          |  come to this great stage of fools!"
                                |                  W. Shakespeare
 


I've found that Linux developers are great at coding, but suck horribly at documenting. Part of the pioneering experience, I reckon.

I've got a PowerMac 4400/200 that I've been trying for days to get set up on Debian. Getting the base install done was relatively painless (only because I'm pretty familiar with the Debian i386 installation in general and fairly familiar with Macintosh), but getting X going has been a nightmare. I've almost got a working setup, but the documentation needed just hasn't been quite what was needed.

I only say this to let you know that you're not alone in your quest. I've included my XF86Config for comparison; it kindda sortta works, but not really.

Near as I can tell from the documentation on fbdev, the "default" setting in the "Modes" line of the "Screen" section tells the server to use the settings currently set for the console, but I can change the console settings (using "fbset '1024x768-90'", etc, from /etc/fb.modes) all day long and then try to start X, but nothing ever seems to change. So instead of using "default", I try to specify a mode in the "Monitor" section of XF86Config, and either it doesn't work or I still get the partial sortta-but-not-really display. The mode settings I've tried have come from other XF86Config files that supposedly work with LinuxPPC, and from the output of "fbset -x", and guessing, and tweaking.

I'm still trying to find more docs to read, so if I can figure out more precisely how it all works together or if I get a working XF86Config file in the next day or two, I'll forward it on to you.
 
  

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Kent West
kent.west@infotech.acu.edu
  
# $XFree86: xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/XF86Conf.cpp,v 3.29.2.3 1999/06/02 07:50:27 hohndel Exp $
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# $XConsortium: XF86Conf.cpp /main/22 1996/10/23 11:43:51 kaleb $

# **********************************************************************
# Refer to the XF86Config(4/5) man page for details about the format of
# this file. This man page is installed as /usr/X11R6/man/man5/XF86Config.5x
# **********************************************************************


Section "Files"
    RgbPath	"/usr/lib/X11/rgb"
    FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled"
    FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
    FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load "xie.so"
EndSection

Section "Keyboard"
    Protocol	"Standard"
    AutoRepeat	500 5
    XkbDisable
    XkbKeymap "macintosh"
EndSection

Section "Pointer"
    Protocol	"BusMouse"
    Device	"/dev/mouse"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier	"Sony Multiscan 100GS"
    VendorName	"Sony"
    ModelName	"100GS"
    HorizSync	30-70         # multisync
    VertRefresh	50-120        # multisync
Mode "800x600-75"
    # D: 31.5 MHz, H: 37.5000 kHz, V: 75.00 Hz
    DotClock 56.479
    HTimings 800 808 872 992
    VTimings 600 608 619 635
    Flags "+HSync" "+VSync"
#    geometry 640 480 640 480 8
#    timings 31747 120 16 16 1 64 3
EndMode
EndSection

Section "Device"
   Identifier	"Linux Frame Buffer Device"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Driver      "FBDev"
    Device      "Linux Frame Buffer Device"
    Monitor     "Sony Multiscan 100GS"
    DefaultColorDepth 8
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth       1
        Modes       "1024x768" "default"
        #Virtual     1280 960
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth       4
        Modes       "default"
        #Virtual     1280 960
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes       "800x600-75"
        #Virtual     1280 960
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes       "default"
        #Virtual     1280 960
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "default"
        #Virtual     1280 960
    EndSubSection
EndSection
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