On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 06:20:17PM -0700, David Brown wrote: > On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 08:10:31PM -0400, Nelson Abramson wrote: > > Clay Ginsburg wrote: > > > > as far as X not working, i think we can start a club :). > > > Unfortunately i don't know enough to fix the stuff and people who do > > > seem to be busy finishing up potato, so we are in a rock and hard > > > place. > > I got X running on my powerbook with Xpmac. I found the binary in an rpm. > Does anyone know if there is source to this Xpmac. > > As far as I can tell, you must currently always boot the Lombard (that's > the 1999 bronze keyboard powermac) with bootx. The framebuffer driver > doesn't seem to initialize it correctly if you use yaboot. > > I will probably try XF4 at some point.
About Xfree 4. We could/should make an debian package containing only the server binary and modules stuff, installeable into /usr/X11R6.4 so as not to break the normal X, and configured to use /etc/X11/XF86Config.4. Maybe also include an example XF86Config.4. Flag it beta/untested or whatever, and include it as ppc onbly binary in potato before it is released. I would do it, i can do the source package, but cannot build for ppc right now. Any comments ? Friendly, Sven LUTHER
