Re: deb-ppc: X server debian packages ?

2000-04-30 Thread Clay Ginsburg
the g4, and powerbook(read g3) use the same packages IIRC. as far as X not working, i think we can start a club :). Unfortunately i don't know enough to fix the stuff and people who do seem to be busy finishing up potato, so we are in a rock and hard place. At 7:27 PM +1000 5/1/00, Brendan J

Re: FBDev crashes

2000-04-30 Thread Nelson Abramson
Alexander wrote: > > > IIRC, the X server is trying to 0 out the colormap. I got around this > by just setting an enormous BlankTime (and I got paranoid w/ StandbyTime and > SuspendTime as well): > Why not just set the timeout to 0, which disables the mode? --Nelson Abramson -- "Apparently

deb-ppc: X server debian packages ?

2000-04-30 Thread Brendan J Simon
I've got a PowerMac G4 at work and am thinking of buying a PowerBook for myself. I have debian running very nicely on the G4 but I haven't got X running. I've installed task-x-window-system but that is all. I read on the mailing lists that XFree86 4.X and/or xpmac is required. Is this correct ?

Re: debian on a powercenter power tower pro

2000-04-30 Thread C.M. Connelly
"MS" == Maarten Stolte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MS> can debian ppc run on the powercenter power tower pro? I MS> haven't got any other use for it then to burn cdroms on MS> it,=20 since MacOS doesn't really prove itself usefull for MS> web authoring imho, so running debian on it w

Re: FBDev crashes

2000-04-30 Thread Alexander
On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 06:43:19PM +0200, Andre Berger wrote: > > Fatal server error: > fbdevUpdateColormap: FBIOPUTCMAP failed (Function not implemented) > IIRC, the X server is trying to 0 out the colormap. I got around this by just setting an enormous BlankTime (and I got paranoid w/ Standby

Re: FBDev crashes

2000-04-30 Thread Andrew B. Arthur
Andre Berger wrote: > (**) FBDev: Using XF86Config video mode database > (--) FBDev: Frame buffer device: OFfb chips65550 > (--) FBDev: Video memory: 975K @ 0x81800200 > (--) FBDev: MMIO regs: 0K @ (nil) > (--) FBDev: Type 0 type_aux 0 bits_per_pixel 16 > (--) FBDev: Hardware accelerator: None > (

Re: FBDev crashes

2000-04-30 Thread Andrew B. Arthur
Andre Berger wrote: > > I'm experiencing xserver-fbdev crashes of two types: > > 1. Fatal server error: fbdevUpdateColormap: FBIOPUTCMAP failed (Function > not implemented) > > 2. Caught Signal 11 > > The problems seem to be screensaver-related. After about 10 minutes of > inactivity the server

debian on a powercenter power tower pro

2000-04-30 Thread Maarten Stolte
Hi,   can debian ppc run on the powercenter power tower pro? I haven't got any other use for it then to burn cdroms on it, since MacOS doesn't really prove itself usefull for web authoring imho, so running debian on it would be cool.   Maarten

FBDev crashes

2000-04-30 Thread Andre Berger
I'm experiencing xserver-fbdev crashes of two types: 1. Fatal server error: fbdevUpdateColormap: FBIOPUTCMAP failed (Function not implemented) 2. Caught Signal 11 The problems seem to be screensaver-related. After about 10 minutes of inactivity the server dies. My configuration: PowerBook 340