Re: X breaks in CD-based installer environment
On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 00:04, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> Hi XFree86 (and Debian X) people. I am in the process of porting PGI,
> Progeny Linux Systems' X-based installer program for Debian, to PowerPC.
> I have overcome several hurdles, except that on my iBook2, X refuses to do
> any modeline processing or find a usable configuration in the installer
> (running off of a CD with everything in /live also-known-as /usr
> read-only but everything else in a read/write initrd). I have tested my
> working config from my existing iBook2 Debian install in the installer,
> and it failed the same way as the PGI config did. The reverse has also been
> tested.
>
> I am attaching a working config and the corresponding X log, with -verbose
> 3, as well as the equivalent with a PGI config. Again, as I said before, I
> have tried the working config in the CD-based installer, and it has failed,
> and another person who has the same hardware has tried the broken config on
> his regular Debian setup, and it has worked.
Option "UseFBDev" only works with a 'real' framebuffer device. Does the
working system use aty128fb but the installation system OFfb?
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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