Too bad, dear Michel. There is no way that I can read the DOC file. The message included in clear text refers to yaboot as the solution of all problems, but I am using BootX and installing yaboot sounds a little extreme. I've tried with a boot floppy, but OF does not like it, and re-formatting the HardDisk if off-topic. Recompiling XF4 from source is also off-topic.
Thank you all, for your attempts to ask my questions regarding the specific issue. I will install the programs I need in the MacOS partition and go forward with it until the correct binaries are in place, and they will hopefully work for the Lombard, one day in the third Millennium... Regarding the other messages on apologies etc, I remember receiving a very pacificatory message from what I assume was the moderator, for which I can be blamed for reaction, and a certain other person can be blamed for triggering my reaction in the first place, and a number of other people confirming it. Then I remember somebody apologising, and then myself accepting it. Unfortunately I was (and I am still doing it, to a certain extent) I was struggling with a broken system (that motivated my original request for help) and a text e-mail client on another machine, so I really do not know to who I was writing to in the first place, although my answers were strictly related to the replied message. I believe the mail client did the rest, by posting my reply to the right person, and I apologise if this was not the case. I also remember sending a very explanatory message, where I explained what is my own way to help. Although the mailing list archives are useful when hunting for FAQs, and I do use them, it is not always easy to find what you are looking for, and sometimes (like in my present case) it is not even possible. The way I proceed is to compile a web page with concrete help for those problems I've managed to reduce to solutions. By "concrete" I mean something along the line of "install the package X" including a version number if it is necessary, with detailed instructions on how to configure and/or with my own configuration files that are one click away. I am always improving the page, and I am always available to reply to private requests of help. This way of proceding has been proven quite successful in the last two years; so successful that the page in question was scoring in the top five of our sites for quite some time. I do not hunt for credits, I only hunt for happy people. Merry Christmas, and happy new millennium, if we do not cross in this mailing list in the near future. Best regards, Sergio Michel Dänzer wrote: > Sergio Brandano wrote: > > > I am returning from an unsuccessful attempt to create a bootable > > floppy. The reason is that at OF time, I can not specify "zip:yaboot". > > The reason is that ... I do not have a ZIP drive, and the parameter > > does not work for my SuperFloppy. (SF is a 120Mb internal > > floppy drive on /dev/hdc ) > > > > I am stuck and in real troubles. I have work to do before the end > > of the week, and I need to have this video back. Is there anything > > that you have in mind and I can try? > > Looking for a Word document on this box to test kword with it, I found the > attached text. Hope it helps. > > I forgot who posted it to the list, please speak up to claim your credits! :) > > Michel > > -- > Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast > Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > I've been fighting with XF4 on my Lombard for a while now and have made some > headway. I'm posting this for those having the same troubles as I had. > > > First, thanks a million to Michel Schmitz and Michel Dänzer, who answered a > lot of (stupid) questions. These two are exemplary of why the Open Source > community is ! > > > Anyway, here;s how I got things to work: > > > Use yaboot to avoid PCI register overlaps created by OF and BootX. > > Get a fresh copy of linux-pmac-stable off linuxppc.org. > > Substitute the ~/drivers/video/atyfb.c file with the one attached to this > posting. > > Configure with ati and fbdev support, make and install (including modules) > > Make sure you use runlevel 3 to tool around in. > > Get Ani's XF86-4 source off linuxppc.org > > sync the Xserver section and update the Xfree86.cf file as posted on Ani's > X-page on linuxppc.org. > > Make and install. > > Substitute the ~/modules/hw/drivers/video/ati_drv.o file with the one > attached to this posting. > > Put the XF86Config file attached to this posting in the /etc/X11 directory > > Startx and enjoy great accellerated graphics (plus all the bugs I've not > discovered yet). > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Name: XF86-4_on_lombard.doc.gz > XF86-4_on_lombard.doc.gz Type: application/gzip (application/gzip) > Encoding: base64
