> > I've been futzing around with the kernel (2.4.20-ben5) with and > > without the Riva driver, and dpkg-reconfiguring xserver-xfree86 with > > and without the nv module, but I've mostly succeeded in getting it to > > fail in less spectacular ways.
> Ok, try this one: http://penguinppc.org/~daniels/README, and for now, > use it with NoAccel until I'm done ironing out some problems with Mark. Success! Here I am! I'll post my XF86Config-4 for others' reference at http://valla.uchicago.edu/ppc/XF86Config-PBG4 since it took me a couple of tries to get it working. If I log out of my XSession, I can't use the console and have to reboot over ssh, but my research over the past two days has led me to expect that. It works whether I use video=ofonly or not. > So far, the above version (based on XFree CVS "nv" driver) appear to > work fine on GeForce4MX based macs and on a GeForceIIMX I have in my > dual G4, though it doesn't quite work with the eMac's one yet. > > > As for the rest of the machine, pmud or apm emulation don't seem to be > > working > Sleep will not work for some time at least :( Segher and I need to > complete an Open Firmware emulator in order to soft-boot the video > chip on wakeup from sleep. I was wrong about apm, it turns out -- /proc/apm has the right info. > > Oh, one weird thing is that /proc/cpuinfo says that the clock speed is > > 533MHz, when I am hopeful (!) that it's 867. > > It's probably a dual speed machine, I suspect you can switch it's speed > via the cpufreq interface. Those machines usually boot at low speed. > Check the actual speed by looking at BogoMips ;) Well, the bogomips is 519.37. I'll figure out cpufreq tonight, I guess. Thanks O.
