Re: XFree86 on Wallstreet

2001-05-28 Thread Leandro Noferini
Derek> Thanks from me, too, the darn ati driver just would not compile, though Derek> "make World" completed without errors. "make" in the ati dir still resulted Derek> in an I took the sources (strange, really strange ;-) ) from linuxppc.org, in an user directory, and these co

Re: XFree86 on Wallstreet

2001-05-25 Thread Derek Homeier
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Orion Buckminster Montoya wrote: > > O.K., I assumed it won't install anyway and never actually tried it, since > > I probably have to uninstall Branden's XF4.0.3 first (or will downgrade > > work?). > > I installed it by specifying the version number-- > > for foo in ; d

Re: XFree86 on Wallstreet

2001-05-25 Thread Orion Buckminster Montoya
> O.K., I assumed it won't install anyway and never actually tried it, since > I probably have to uninstall Branden's XF4.0.3 first (or will downgrade > work?). I installed it by specifying the version number-- for foo in ; do apt-get install $foo=4.0.2-1puetzk done Or something to that effec

Re: XFree86 on Wallstreet

2001-05-25 Thread Derek Homeier
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Derek Homeier wrote: > > > > to my sources.list, but apt-get update invariably tells my it's ignoring > > that archive: > > > > Ign http://www.penguinppc.org/~puetzk/debs unstable/x4 Release > > This doesn't mean it ignores the whole repository, just

Re: XFree86 on Wallstreet

2001-05-25 Thread Michel Dänzer
Derek Homeier wrote: > > On 21 May 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > > > The winning solution came from Kimmo Lehtonen, who told me to use the > > .debs at http://penguinppc.org/~puetzk/ . > > > > I was able to just install the xserver-xfree86 package from there (the > > -7 one) and all is now wel

Re: XFree86 on Wallstreet

2001-05-25 Thread Derek Homeier
On 21 May 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > The winning solution came from Kimmo Lehtonen, who told me to use the > .debs at http://penguinppc.org/~puetzk/ . > > I was able to just install the xserver-xfree86 package from there (the > -7 one) and all is now well with the ATI driver. > How did you

Re: XFree86 on Wallstreet

2001-05-23 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > (II) FBDev(0): using default device > > > (WW) INVALID MEM ALLOCATION b: 0x8200 e: 0x82ff correcting > > That's a classic example for 'better use yaboot'. If you can't, search the > linuxppc-dev list archive (and perhaps the debian

Re: XFree86 on Wallstreet

2001-05-22 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > and the machine reboots itself. Yes, I have the BusID set properly. > > You might need a kernel patch, Michael Schmitz would be able to say more. I've never experienced a machine check / reboot. Just hangs and random disk corruption. > > (II) FBDev(0): using default device > > (WW) INVAL

Re: XFree86 on Wallstreet

2001-05-21 Thread Adam Di Carlo
The winning solution came from Kimmo Lehtonen, who told me to use the .debs at http://penguinppc.org/~puetzk/ . I was able to just install the xserver-xfree86 package from there (the -7 one) and all is now well with the ATI driver. Excellent! -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onsh

Re: XFree86 on Wallstreet

2001-05-21 Thread Michel Dänzer
Adam Di Carlo wrote: Hi. I'm another PowerBook G3 Wallstreet user having problem running X11. I'm using xserver-xfree86 (and other X packages) version 4.0.3-3. Symptoms are: * ATI driver If I use the ati driver, (WW) ATI: PCI/AGP Mach64 in slot 0:17:0 could not be detected! (EE) No de

Re: XFree86 on Wallstreet

2001-05-20 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Hi. I'm another PowerBook G3 Wallstreet user having problem running X11. I'm using xserver-xfree86 (and other X packages) version 4.0.3-3. Symptoms are: * ATI driver If I use the ati driver, (WW) ATI: PCI/AGP Mach64 in slot 0:17:0 could not be detected! (EE) No devices detected. and then

Re: XFree86 on Wallstreet

2001-05-15 Thread Peter Meilstrup
Aha, this is what I needed to know. In the past I had been unable to build X due to a lack of disk space. So I built the drivers as per Vinod's instructions, and everything appears to be working fine. Thanks for the pointers, everyone. Cheers, Peter On Mon, 14 May 2001, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänze

Re: XFree86 on Wallstreet

2001-05-15 Thread Michel Dänzer
Vinod Kurup wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 07:02:45PM -0700, Peter Meilstrup wrote: Well, unsurprisingly, this config file didn't work. The next thing I'm going to try is to build X from source, using ani's drivers. Does anyone have a rough estimate of how much space a complete build will ta

Re: XFree86 on Wallstreet

2001-05-14 Thread Vinod Kurup
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 07:02:45PM -0700, Peter Meilstrup wrote: > Well, unsurprisingly, this config file didn't work. The next thing I'm > going to try is to build X from source, using ani's drivers. Does > anyone have a rough estimate of how much space a complete build will take? > Would it be po

Re: XFree86 on Wallstreet

2001-05-14 Thread Michel Dänzer
Peter Meilstrup wrote: Well, unsurprisingly, this config file didn't work. The next thing I'm going to try is to build X from source, using ani's drivers. Does anyone have a rough estimate of how much space a complete build will take? Would it be possible to build and install only the ati driv

Re: XFree86 on Wallstreet

2001-05-13 Thread Peter Meilstrup
Well, unsurprisingly, this config file didn't work. The next thing I'm going to try is to build X from source, using ani's drivers. Does anyone have a rough estimate of how much space a complete build will take? Would it be possible to build and install only the ati driver, and leave the rest as-is

Re: XFree86 on Wallstreet

2001-05-13 Thread Orion Buckminster Montoya
I've put up mine at http://home.uchicago.edu/~obmontoy/XF86Config-4 Getting XFree4 running on my Wallstreet was non-trivial. I originally got it working in LinuxPPC 2000, compiling my own from ajoshi's sources (search the linuxppc-user archives at http://lists.linuxppc.org/lists/linuxppc-user if

XFree86 on Wallstreet

2001-05-12 Thread Peter Meilstrup
I know there was some discussion a while ago about getting XFree86 4 to work on the original Powerbook G3 series, and according to the list archives some people had success doing so. But I can't find any information about what exactly was done to make it work. Does anyone have a working XF86Confi