On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, "Berg, Björn" wrote:
> although Debian does not support the Powerbooks 1400 series, because of
> their NUBUS technology, I installed it and get it running without problems.
> But now I want to install X.
> All efforts to get the Framebufferdevice running have taken into no effect.
> Then I heard of Xpmac and that it is for Old World Macs.
> But a Debian-package is not available. So I took the rpm from LinuxPPC Q4
> and make a deb with alien. The I set some symlinks: One is:
> /usr/bin/X11/Xpmac -> X
> But when Itry to start X with startx, I get the following Error:
> <--- snip --->
> hostname: Host name lookup failure
> WooWoo
> Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'
> Fatal server error:
> ioctl 0x7667 failed: invalid argument
> <--- snap --->
>
> What can I do??
Enable Xpmac compatibility mode (CONFIG_FB_COMPAT_XPMAC).
But I doubt it'll work, if the frame buffer device doesn't work correctly.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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