Have you tried importing the other xorg.conf file from 5 to 6? Or setting the TV options in the device section?
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Lee Wilson <leef...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I've just done a fresh install of Debian 6 on my PPC Mini Mac and for the > life of me cannot get X up and running. The Mac is connected to my TV via > VGA through a DVI-to-VGA adapter (no DVI on my TV) and the screen just keeps > flicking on and off. > > When I installed Debian 5 everything just worked with config straight after > install, so I never had to troubleshoot. I've reinstalled Debian 5 just to > make sure it did just work and GDM came straight up. Both include the radeon > driver which I believe is the correct one for the Radeon 9200 in the Mac. > > I've attached both configs from 5 & 6, from my limited understanding I > cannot see much difference. When diffing the configs there are quite a few > more options in the config but most are disabled I think. > > The last message I see when running X with either config is "Leaving > Restore TV" and when generating the config the errors below are shown: > > Bus error at address 0x481777000 > Fatal Server Error > Caught Signal 7 (Bus Error). Server aborting > > Debian 5 was running X.org X server 1.4.2 and 6 is running 1.7.7. > > I believe this is down to some kind of refresh rate issue (at least from > what I've googled) so I tried to manually generate the mode lines for my > using the following link http://xtiming.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.plbut > it made no difference regardless of what resolution I choose that my TV > lists as supported. > > Has anyone else run into this and can offer some insight? > > Thanks in advance > > Lee > > >
