Hello, I have potato 2.2r2 with kernel 2.2.18pre21 on a 500MHz G4 with an ATI Rage 128 Pro AGP 4x and it works fine on the console. I boot with video=ofonly. X doesn't work though, and from following this list that might be expected. X (as XF68FBDev) does get started by xdm, the screen turns white 3 times and then X gives up. Is the ATI Rage 128 Pro just not supported? If there is hope within potato and XF3 I will provide the logs for debugging.
Will I have to go to XF4? I am not really willing to go all the way to unstable, so I reckon I have either find XF4 .debs for potato (I tried to search, but no luck) or to get the sources and compile. If so, is there a recipie somewhere which guides me through getting and compiling the deb-sources? While I am at it, I have another little problem. This mac has an ATAPI DVD-RAM, which I only get to use in read-only mode. At boot it is recognised as MATSUHITA PD-2 LF-D110, ATAPI CDROM and sits at /dev/hdc. A bit later I get the message ATAPI DVD-ROM DVD-R drive, 2048 kB cache I can use it to read CD-ROMs and DVD-RAMs. However, the DVD-RAMs are always mounted read-only, even though my fstab allows for rw mounting. Also, mke2fs will not format a DVD-RAM disk, claiming it is a read-only medium and I am absolutely sure that the disk is NOT write-protected. Any hints? Oh, and then there is the mouse-button 2 and 3 emulation. I got the USB mouse to work with gpm (made the device nodes etc.), but I can't get the 3-button emulation to work. Turning it on in /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid has no effect. A Logitech USB wheelmouse worked just great though. Cheers, Stefan ---Stefan Kluth---------------Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter----------- - MPI fuer Physik - phone: +49 89 32354 468 - OPAL& - - Foehringer Ring 6 - fax: +49 89 32354 305 - ATLAS - ---D-80805 Munich, Germany----e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
