David Brown wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 04:15:02PM -0700, Kimball Thurston wrote: > > I've got debian linux running wonderfully on a G4 - eventually I'll > > write up a howto and send it on, as I didn't find any documents that > > covered the G4 entirely, but anyways. > > You're not alone. I think it works great. The HOWTO would be real handy, > though.
I will try to type up a mini-howto tonight, perhaps this weekend. > > > I convinced the boss to get a cinema display for SIGGRAPH, which is > > really cool, but I can't get the standard ATI 128 frame buffer to kick > > in and display anything to the cinema display. Does anyone have a modedb > > entry to get the cinema display to work? > > Wow. I think the digital out connector is the second head on the ATI 128. > I've heard rumors of support for it in XFree86 4.0, but I don't know where. > It is definately more than just getting the timing right. > Ok, I'll bite. Is there a way not to use the frame buffer X server with the G4? Or frame buffers at all? - just a vga startup mode, and then use the ATI accelerated X server? I thought you had to use frame buffers. I'd gladly get rid of them if I could... thanks, -- Kimball mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------- Efficiency is intelligent laziness. - D. Dunham
