On Wed, 2002-01-09 at 19:07, Paul F. Pearson wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Paul F. Pearson wrote: > > > On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Paul F. Pearson wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 07:38:48PM -0600, Paul F. Pearson wrote: > > > > > I installed Woody on my Powermac 7500 at work. In trying to configure > > > > > XF86, I'm having trouble finding a chipset to use. I tried scouring > > > > > the > > > > > 'net (including the archives for this list) and can't find what > > > > > settings > > > > > to use. Will I have to step back to XF863? Will that be difficult? > > > > > > > > > Use the "fbdev" driver. > > > > > > When I tried that one, all I could get was 640x480. I got a message saying > > > that 1024x768 wouldn't work (shouldn't it?), and 800x600 lookes "screwy". > > > > Update: When I change to a bit depth of 16, I can do 1024x768 (at 24 bits, > > I actually had a virtual desktop of 800x600). > > > > Actually, the log output says "Virtual size is 1024x768". How can I get > > that to an *actual* size? I get a true 1024x768 in the Mac OS. > > Update#2: Now, when I boot into Linux (the boot is now in X), I appear to > only have perhaps 640x480 on screen. The Login window is larger than my > screen!
So the virtual resolution is bigger than the physical one. A common cause of this is that the biggest mode isn't first on the Modes line in Subsection "Display". > When I do ctrl-alt-plus, the screen is unreadable (garbled - sort of looks > like three columns of grey garbage). And if you do that several times? > When I find where the log file is, I'll post it. /var/log/XFree86.0.log (as mentioned in the server output ;) > Have I mentioned that I'm using XF86 version 4? I think you haven't, but it was clear from the information you provided. :) -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
