Michel Dänzer wrote: Kin Chung wrote:
Well, I finally got the sod working. XF86Config: It turns out that the modelines are the only important detail. The short of it is: my XF86Config file looks more or less like the one I found ages ago (while trying to get XFree86 3.3.6 to behave) at hadess.net (see http://hadess.net/files/ppc/ibook/). Of course, one has to understand what one is doing before one realises that the solution is staring one in the face. It is also very helpful that Apple does _not_ supply* any data about their flat-panel displays or the ATI graphics processors---and ATI tells you to ask Apple (well, at least I found out by looking at similar ATI cards that the maximum dot clock is about 58 MHz). It also turns out that the current XFree86 4.0.2 available at http://www.XFree86.org/ works well enough with the ATI Rage Mobility 3 that you don't need to resort to `Option "UseFBDev"' or `Option "ProgramFPRegs" "No"'. In fact, one of the problems with using the `"Program FPRegs" "No"' option is that when X dies or is killed, you don't get your console display back---the screen fades to white. The biggest problem I had, it turns out, was that if your compiled code was not packaged as a debian package first, then you had to do a little extra work which nobody talks about---run ldconfig. Without that, the shared objects library is not linked into the system, and it dies a horrible death. The second biggest problem is that xfs no longer compiles as a daemon by default---the start-stop-daemon trys to start it and it takes over the machine at boot-time, so you don't ever get to log in! Temporary fix is not to start up xfs. Permanent fix (when I get around to it) is to recompile it to work as a daemon. Thanks again for all the help! Cheers, Kin Hoong *I did not go to the trouble of asking Apple support. No idea how they would respond. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
