Re: Update on the problems with X (was: Re: Success installing woody with a 9500/180MP and problems with X)

2001-09-30 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2001-10-01 at 00:06, =?us-ascii?Q?Rog=E9rio?= Brito wrote: > On the other hand, when I had MacOS installed here, it ran > flawlessly. Also, I have one LinuxPPC 2000 Q4 CD here that is > able to use this card just fine with the Xpmac X server, but > since I want to u

Update on the problems with X (was: Re: Success installing woody with a 9500/180MP and problems with X)

2001-09-30 Thread Rogério Brito
On Sep 30 2001, Thomas Powell wrote: First of all, I'd like to thank everybody that has already replied to my question with hints or suggestions. Thank you very much. Your help is appreciated. I am still not able to use the X server while running Debian (us

Re: Success installing woody with a 9500/180MP and problems with X

2001-09-30 Thread Thomas Powell
I am using a 4mb imstt128 on a dual processor s900 (same motherboard as 9500). I can get up to 1600x1200 with the fbdev or 1280x1024 with the imstt driver - both at 16 bit color depth. The relevant section of my XF86Config-4 is: Section "Device" Identifier "imstt128mb" BusID

Re: Success installing woody with a 9500/180MP and problems with X

2001-09-30 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2001-09-29 at 23:12, =?us-ascii?Q?Rog=E9rio?= Brito wrote: > In fact, I'm lying here: when I tried using the fbdev with > 640x480 with 15 or 16 bit colors, X started, but with weird > colors, like if I had taken a negative of the Debian default > desktop with Window

Re: Success installing woody with a 9500/180MP and problems with X

2001-09-29 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 06:12:26PM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > The PowerMac that I have here has a video card named IMS TT > (that's what the kernel framebuffer driver tells at dmesg), > with 4MB of VRAM. > Section "Device" > Identifier "Generic Video Card" > D

Re: Success installing woody with a 9500/180MP and problems with X

2001-09-29 Thread Philipp Kaeser
hej, > And this brings me to another question: since this machine has > PCI slots, is it able to use any PCI card that I would use on > a regular PC? What requisites should a PCI card fulfill to be > usable with this machine? normal (PC x86) PCI gfx cards use to have some

Success installing woody with a 9500/180MP and problems with X

2001-09-29 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear people, Last Thursday, I got an old Powermac 9500/180MP borrowed to play with and one of the first things I did was to substitute the MacOS 8.6 that came with it with Debian. I am an experienced system administrator and an experienced Debian x