On 1 Mar, this message from Syd Bauman echoed through cyberspace: > I finally got a working monitor (an Apple Multiple Scan 1705 Display) > attached to the PowerComputing PowerTower Pro 225.
According to http://www.everymac.com/systems/powercc/powertower_pro/powertower_pro225.html that's a 9600 clone (6 PCI slots) with an IMS video card. > So I went ahead > and installed Debian "Woody" 3.0, just as I've done several times > before on several machines (including this one). Which kernel did you install? I recommend a 2.4 kernel; but I'm not sure what the Debian powermac 2.4 kernel is named in the installer... Somebody help me out :-). A 2.2 kernel, the default, will not recognize all your PCI slots. > During the install > process I was asked for the PCI bus address of the video card. If I > recall correctly, in previous installs if I was asked this question > there was a default value filled in which I simply accepted. But not > so this time. It was blank. The installer offered the advice to use > the `lspci' command to determine the address. So I popped to a > different tty and tried that command. The output (appended below) > doesn't have information for anything that is obviously a video card > (at least to me), so I didn't enter anything, crossed my fingers, and > went on with the install. That's most probably a sign that you're using a 2.2 kernel, and that your video card is in the other group of 3 slots compared to the Ethernet card (which obviously is detected). > Later on it (where I don't know what "it" was, but it looks similar > to dpkg-reconfigure xserver-sfree86) asked me for the brand of my > video card. I don't know, but thought it might be ATI, so I chose > "ati", crossed my fingers, and went on with the install. If it still has the original video card, it's an IMS card. To detect it, two options: either move it to the lower/upper group of 3 PCI slots (oposite of what it's in now), or get a 2.4 kernel for the installation. > Well, not too suprisingly, X isn't happy with the video settings. The > error messages appended below (from the log file; I've included the > whole thing per the message it displays; would people prefer if it > were an attachment?) were followed by > X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). Yeah, of course, because X doesn't run. Anybody with an IMS card around that can take over? Cheers Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. "
