On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 11:20:28PM -0700, Brian Kidder wrote: > I'm trying to finish up a debian installation on a PowerBook G3/400 > (Lombard), but am having a lot of trouble with both X and the > trackpad. > > Can anyone help me figure out how to configure both? Preferably, can you > send me your XF86Config and gpm.conf files (and which versions of both > your using)?
I'm using Debian on a PowerBook G3/266 (Wallstreet II) and had similar problems with X. I had to switch over to the kernel found here: http://gdr.free.fr/linux.html before I got anywhere (I'm not sure if it really made a difference, I haven't checked X on the Debian 2.2.9 kernel since I got it working). Since then I've recompiled the kernel using 2.2.10 and the atyfb patches suggested there. The first thing I noticed... there's no way to configure X! XF86Config, XF86Setup, xf86config, XConfigurator... looked everywhere, installed every X11 package I could think of (I'm booted in MacOS right now so I can't check exactly what I've got, but I've got the basics and much more) I wound up using the last vestiges of my Linux/PPC installation to configure X and stole /etc/X11/XF86Config from there. It mostly works, had to fiddle with the font paths. So, exactly how is one expected to configure X? I think someone earlier commented that since the Frame Buffer X driver wasn't as touchy as others, it wasn't necessary to have an X configuration program. Trust me, it is. I would have -no- idea where to start writing XF86Config from scratch. So how 'bout it? Add an X config program pleeeeeeeease? -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern /(?:(?:(1)[.-]?)?\(?(\d{3})\)?[.-]?)?(\d{3})[.-]?(\d{4})(x\d+)?/i
