On 23 Jan 2012, at 23:14, Pat Wall wrote:
> On 23/01/12 22:18, Lennart Sorensen wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 09:39:51PM +0000, Mark Benson wrote: >> >>> I finally got a bootable Debian 6.0.3 system. It's a good start! >>> >>> I now find myself stuck in another hole. >>> >>> Xorg doesn't like either my GXT6500P or my GXT135P graphics boards. It >>> doesn't seem to have a driver for either. >>> >>> I am also totally lost with Xorg. I have hacked good ole' X11R6 with .conf >>> files in the past but this new auto-configuring system is beyond me, I >>> don't even know where to put a xorg.conf to get it to read it in? >>> >> /etc/X11/xorg.conf should work. >> >> > Here is my working xorg.conf [1] from an Intellistation 285 and GXT135P with > Debian 6.0.3. I could only get it to work with the fbdev driver - mga just > wouldn't play ball at all. Excellent! Thanks :) I wonder if it's actually a monitor issue Xorg is having as the card is recognised and works but my desktop is at 640x480 @ 8-bit and there are no options available other than that. > The GXT6500 will only work with the CruxPPC patch which is on their install > CD (never tried it). Interestingly it almost works in Xorg - the colours are a mile off though :) > As a matter of interest what did you do to get yaboot up and running? If I am > remembering correctly I had to open a virtual console at the end of the > installation and type dd if=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot of=/dev/sda1 to copy > yaboot to the PReP partition. That's the method that's supposed to work. I never actually got that far. I installed Crux, which has instructions (that work, shock horror!!) to install it by hand. I screwed uop when I was installing CruxPPC because x86 force of habit made me add a /boot partition and apparently that's not a good idea!. I then booted the Debian 6.0.3 DVD, wiped out all the partitions except the PReP partition and installed Debian, skipping the bootloader phase when it borked on the Apple_Bootstrap partition error. I then popped into a terminal, copied the /cdrom/etc/yaboot.conf over, chroot'd to my new system partition and hacked the yaboot.conf about to get a usable yaboot.conf using the full kernel and initrd images in / . Worked after a few aborted attempts while I learned my yaboot syntax. Seriously long-winded though! :) -- Mark Benson http://DECtec.info Twitter: @DECtecInfo HECnet: STAR69::MARK Online Resource & Mailing List for DEC Enthusiasts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/02778016-2d01-4b51-bf15-105723403...@gmail.com
