Package: xserver-xorg-dev Version: 2:1.15.0-2 Severity: important Tags: upstream Bug#742472 Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation? I installed a new install of Debian PPC on my iMacG5 and was trying to get X working properly The session using the default desktop opened very strangely with missing characters, distorted menus barely readable. Tried Xfce desktop and that worked considerably better. Tried Lxde and that opened with the bottom 1/2 of the desktop background in black. Windows would open, but if you maximized them the lower portions would not have text. If you dragged them with the mouse and made them larger, then they were all OK. In no case did X configure the external monitor. It would flash and report that it was being asked to do 12 hz refresh! * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? I tried to create an xorg.conf file. X -configure failed saying the number of screens was incorrect. I found a single-monitor xorg.conf where the TV output of the iMac was turned off, along with the external monitor output. That worked properly for the single built-in monitor. I tried to turn on the external monitor in xorg.conf, leaving the TV output off, but that failed. Also, the iMac screen showed a darker area that looked to be 1024x768, the highest mode of the TV output. I finally did xrandr --output TV-1 --off followed by xrandr --output VGA-1 --mode 1280x1024 left-of DVI-D-1 . * What was the outcome of this action? That cleared most of the problems, but left the external monitor as the primary monitor. I found that whatever monitor was told to be the left monitor would become primary. * What outcome did you expect instead? I expected that having the TV output (TV-1) on but nothing plugged into the connector would cause it to be ignored and that the external monitor would auto-configure (I had tried --output VGA-1 --auto and it did not work). I expected X -configure to make a proper xorg.conf file. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.4 APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: powerpc (ppc64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-powerpc64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages xserver-xorg-dev depends on: ii libpciaccess-dev 0.13.1-2 ii libpixman-1-dev 0.32.4-1 ii libxkbfile-dev 1:1.0.8-1 ii mesa-common-dev 9.2.2-1 ii x11proto-core-dev 7.0.23-1 ii x11proto-dri2-dev 2.8-2 ii x11proto-dri3-dev 1.0-1 ii x11proto-fonts-dev 2.1.2-1 ii x11proto-gl-dev 1.4.17-1 ii x11proto-input-dev 2.3-1 ii x11proto-kb-dev 1.0.6-2 ii x11proto-present-dev 1.0-1 ii x11proto-randr-dev 1.4.0-2 ii x11proto-render-dev 2:0.11.1-2 ii x11proto-resource-dev 1.2.0-3 ii x11proto-scrnsaver-dev 1.2.2-1 ii x11proto-video-dev 2.3.1-2 ii x11proto-xext-dev 7.3.0-1 ii x11proto-xf86bigfont-dev 1.2.0-3 ii x11proto-xf86dri-dev 2.1.1-2 ii x11proto-xinerama-dev 1.2.1-2 xserver-xorg-dev recommends no packages. xserver-xorg-dev suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5f36da21-8ecf-46ec-b0d0-8eb16e595...@gmail.com
