Bug#490990: xorg: xserver fails to start on PowerPC G4 mac with ATI Rage128 PF/PRO AGP 4x TMDS
On Jul 15, 2008, at 5:07 PM, Brice Goglin wrote:
Rick Thomas wrote:
Package: xorg
Version: 1:7.3+12
Severity: important
xserver fails to start on PowerPC G4 mac with ATI Rage128 PF/PRO
AGP 4x TMDS following update to latest Lenny
Add
Driver "r128"
to your Device section for now. The server is autoloading "radeon"
instead of "r128", I am fixing this.
Brice
I did that. X starts now. But it still thinks my screen is 800x600.
The Gnome "screen resolution preferences" does not offer me any other
options than 800x600, 60Hz. The screen (A DELL 2100FP) is capable of
1600x1200 and the video card is capable of driving it at that
resolution if I add the following two lines to the Monitor section:
HorizSync 31-80
VertRefresh 56-76
Though, the gdm login screen is displayed at 1920x1200, which makes
the pixels seem high and narrow, rather than square. It corrects to
1600x1200 after logging in.
Interestingly, if I do that, I get an error dialog box saying:
Nautilus can't be used now,
due to an unexpected error from Bonobo
when attempting to locate the factory.
Killing bonobo-activation-server and
restarting Nautilus may help fix the problem.
If I click "OK", then Nautilus starts and everything is normal... Go
figure!
Let me know if I can test anything for you...
Rick
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