That's the one. Linux seems to be running all right so far (minus sound support). I did manage to get Xpmac working last night. I was following the wrong instructions, which told me to delete X and replace it with a symbolic link. I'm using the special Ben kernel, and I've installed LinuxPPC and Debian ontop of it. With Xpmac, the mouse emulation is built into the X server and the Delete key is automatically mapped by somebody. Plus, the XFree's don't like 24-bit colour.
For anyone's information, I got Xpmac working by doing the following: 1) download the Xpmac binary. I got Xpmac_rage128_usb_rev9 2) throw it into /usr/bin/X11RC 3) make sure the sticky bit is set on X (if it's not, you'll get an error telling you to setuid root). the command for that turned out to be "chmod ug+s X" 4) change /etc/X11/Xserver to point to Xpmac instead of the default. Make sure that there are no trailing spaces on that line. I kept the permission at "Console". 5) run startx (or xdm/gdm) On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 08:16:09AM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > The powerbook firewire, isn't it the one with a mobile rage128 also called > prismo (sort of) or the tokyo released powerbook ? > > Does linux run fine on this ? > > Alas, i don't know if Xfree 3.3.6 is actually supporting the rage128, there > were talks of back porting support for it from the 3.9/4.0 xfree tree, but i > don't know what happened to it. > > What you could try, is to build 4.0, which should work ok. To not have it mess > with stantard debian installs do the following : > > * download the 4.0 -1 archive, no need to get the fonts and docs, since you > will not use them > * unpack them and do the following changes to the config/cf dir : > - change the root dir to be /usr/X11R6.4 > - change the config file to be XF86Config.4 > - build only the server. > the attached patch against 4.0 should take care of that. > * then go into the xc dir and do : > - make World &> world.log & > - tail -f world.log > - make install &> install.log & > - tail -f install.log > - make install.man &> man.log & > - tail -f man.log > this should take you between 30min to 60min, i guess, it took me ~4hours > on my apus box (603e @240MHz, no cache) and ~1 hour on my k6-2 500Mhz > system. > > once that is done, you need to generate a XF86Config.4 (there should be an > example in /usr/X11R6.4/lib/X11 or something such) and change > /etc/X11/Xserver to point to /usr/X11R6.4/bin/Xfree86 instead of > /usr/bin/X11/XF86_FBDev. > > Friendly, > > Sven LUTHER > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Vivek Balasubramanyam [EMAIL PROTECTED] (519) 569-0786
