Bug#501367: installation-reports: various problem on an Apple iMac G3

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Tue, Oct  7, 2008 at 01:18:32 +0200, Luca Capello wrote:

> 3) X.Org
> 
>    This is the main problem: after the first reboot, X11 starts, but the
>    screen remains black.  After investigation, to have a "working"
>    screen I needed a single xorg.conf option for the "Monitor" section,
>    taken from etch's xorg.conf:
> 
>      HorizSync       60-60
> 
>    However, the screen resolution is set to 1280x968, which is not
>    wrong, but the font size is too small.  I've never used this iMac
>    with Apple software, but according to the Apple site [1] (and
>    Wikipedia as well [2]) the correct resolution should be 1024x768,
>    which is obtained with another single xorg.conf option in the
>    "Monitor" section, again taken from etch's xorg.conf:
> 
>      VertRefresh     75-117
> 
>    I can provide X.Org log files from etch and lenny as well as perform
>    other tests or even installations: this is still a playing machine,
>    thus no need to be careful with it :-)
> 
Yes please.  Without the logs there's nothing we can do.

I suspect DDC is just screwed up in the r128 driver, so X can't get the
informations about your monitor, and uses defaults that are wrong in
your case :/

Cheers,
Julien