Hi,
I've been running Debian/powerpc on my powermac 7600/132 since nearly 6
months and it works great. I run xfree framebuffer server over the
motherboard control video chip and it runs a bit slowly.
Since I've bought a pci voodoo 3 2000 card, and 3dfx provides driver and
eprom for the macinto
> Please try XFree86 4.0.1 - look at http://samosa.debian.org/~branden/woody/ .
As a matter of fact I tried a 4.0 released with the modification brought
bye the guys at linuxppc.org. It did run the control driver (but with bugs)
and failed to run the tdfx driver.
But I'll give a try to the ph
Hi again,
I followed Michel's advice and installed nearly flawlessly the XFree 4.0.1
phase2 .debs (it was v7 at the time I tried it).
The only glitche I encountered in the installation was the it didn't
de-install xserver-fbdev_3.3.6 and didn't install xserver-xfree86_4.0.1_0pha
se2v7. But that
> Frederic Seraphine wrote:
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> > D___
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> Don't bother. It's the fbdevhw module getting the mem offset of the
> framebuffer wrong.
Ok, any fix pending ?
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Hi,
it's me again with my too old powermac 7600/132 running under the
chaos control framebuffer device.
The new version of the XFree86 server using the fb driver work better
than one month ago, the screen is no more wrapped around but it still
present some annoying glitch: the color of the whole d
(michel, sorry for the repeat, I forgot to Cc: to debian-x and
debian-powerpc)
> Nice to hear that my patches help :)
And nice of you to have done them :).
>
> > it still present some annoying glitch: the color of the whole display is
> > wrong, it has a general pink hue.
>
> Was it already
> >> > it still present some annoying glitch: the color of the whole display is
> >> > wrong, it has a general pink hue.
>
> Do you mean it is actually pink, or are you simply saying that some
> gray colours have a slightly pinkish shade?
As a matter of fact, yes it's only the gray collors that a
Thanks to Michel Daenzerm and Juliusz Chroboczek kind attention on
debian-powerpc last night, I can have a working XFree86 running using fb
driver on my powermac. But there's still some glitches.
It seems that the X clients can't find some color definitions. When I
launch rxvt, it abort with th
Hi,
I tried branden robinson's XFree86 4.0.2 packages and it seems to fix all
the quirks I was suffering on my powermac 7600/132 using the framebuffer
device. I'm very glad this works since I can at last use the fbdevhw
driver.
However, I suffer a strange problem: the X server dies whenever t
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