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Re: X on a G3 desktop



On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 12:15:34PM -0800, Steven Nichols wrote:
> I am running version 2.2.17 on a beige G3 desktop.  I cannot get the X 
> server, xf68_fbdev, to start properly.  It partly draws the screen with 
> garbage on the bottom.  The keyboard and mouse seem to work, but this is 
> hard to verify since the display is messed up.  Has anyone out there 
> ever got X to work on the display of a Mac PPC running Debian?  I have 
> not.

I just configured Debian on that hardware last week.  I was not able to
get X to work until I upgraded the machine to sid (XF86 4.10 and kernel
2.4).  Once I did that, everything worked fine.  In potato, I had the
same problems you did.

noah

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