On Mon, 2001-10-01 at 00:06, =?us-ascii?Q?Rog=E9rio?= Brito wrote: > On the other hand, when I had MacOS installed here, it ran > flawlessly. Also, I have one LinuxPPC 2000 Q4 CD here that is > able to use this card just fine with the Xpmac X server, but > since I want to use Debian, I'll struggle a little bit more > here.
You could try using Xpmac for a start, but it will lack all of the interesting features of XFree86. > I don't know if the problem with the 2.4 kernels is that I am > using the woody gcc (i.e., too recent to compile a kernel?), No, don't worry about that. I've been using 2.95.x for ages to build my kernels. > Anyway, I am able to use the 2.2.19 kernel that comes with > Debian stock, but since it doesn't list the card in the lspci > output, I suspect that the X server won't be able to use it > (in the logs, the X server only lists the PCI devices that > lspci already lists and -- I assume -- these are the only ones > that it is trying to use). That's true for the imstt driver, but the fbdev driver should work regardless. > P.S.: I'm trying to do my homework regarding Linux running under PPC, > but seems to not be that easy. :-( Is this situation any different > with NewWorld macs? Yes, much better. :) -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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