Re: XF86Config-4 on iMac G3 Rev. B [SOLVED]

2005-05-01 Thread Brian C
Hi, Maximilian Gerlach wrote: > Hi Brian, > try the live CD of Ubuntu hoary. It recognized my iMac G3 Rev. A just > wonderful. If you want that, I could send you a working xorg.conf with > adjusted modelines, too. > > Greets, > Maxi > > PS: > Without looking on your XF86Config-4: Did you use a f

Re: XF86Config-4 on iMac G3 Rev. B

2005-05-01 Thread Maximilian Gerlach
Hi Brian, try the live CD of Ubuntu hoary. It recognized my iMac G3 Rev. A just wonderful. If you want that, I could send you a working xorg.conf with adjusted modelines, too. Greets, Maxi PS: Without looking on your XF86Config-4: Did you use a framebuffer?! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Getting DRI to work on a beige PowerMac G3

2005-05-01 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 16:09 +0100, David Deans wrote: > Right, this is driving me crazy. I'm currently running sarge and I'm > trying to get DRI to work on a beige PowerMac G3, equipped with a ATI > Rage Pro 3D (Mach64) with 2Meg (sigh) of VRAM. I'm not expecting it to > do amazing things, Indeed

XF86Config-4 on iMac G3 Rev. B

2005-05-01 Thread Brian C
Hi, I did a net install of Debian on an old iMac G3 Rev. B with 6MB of vRAM and the ATI Rage Pro card. It has 64MB of RAM. X does not start. It seems to want to start, but the gdm login screen never appears. I'm wondering if perhaps X simply will not run with only 64MB of RAM. At first I was t

Getting DRI to work on a beige PowerMac G3

2005-05-01 Thread David Deans
Right, this is driving me crazy. I'm currently running sarge and I'm trying to get DRI to work on a beige PowerMac G3, equipped with a ATI Rage Pro 3D (Mach64) with 2Meg (sigh) of VRAM. I'm not expecting it to do amazing things, but atm it doesnt even seem to be starting. Every time I run a DRI app

[powerpc] simplifying and updating http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status

2005-05-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status is IMHO a bit confusing and missing some infos: - for oldworld cd- and net-booting a note should be added: "needs booting from OpenFirmware" (this is currently not described in the manual - if it's added (it's on my list for today t

Re: external Display and FBDev

2005-05-01 Thread Florian Klinglmueller
hi, just for the record [don't know if it's relevant since you're mostly talking newer machines here]. on ibook g3 900mhz [think that's radeon 7500] and xorg packages from ubuntu hoary it's working pretty much out of the box here, didn't have to apply any patches or whatsoever. there is actuall