Re: X breaks in CD-based installer environment

2002-04-27 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 06:09:50PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > The part that is frustrating is this: > > (**) R128(0): Using framebuffer device > (II) Loading sub module "fbdevhw" > (II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw" > (II) Loading /live/lib/modules/linux/libfbdevhw.a > (II) Module fbdevhw: vendor="

Re: Splitting packages of video drivers in XF4.2 ?

2002-04-27 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 01:46, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Am Samstag, 27. April 2002 23:19 schrieben Sie: > > On Sat, 2002-04-27 at 11:39, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > > > I have some kind of wish to discuss which would makes life much less hard > > > f

Re: Splitting packages of video drivers in XF4.2 ?

2002-04-27 Thread Hendrik Sattler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Samstag, 27. April 2002 23:19 schrieben Sie: > On Sat, 2002-04-27 at 11:39, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > > I have some kind of wish to discuss which would makes life much less hard > > for users of non-Debian-files: > > > > It is fact that not all grap

Re: X breaks in CD-based installer environment

2002-04-27 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 12:44:08AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 00:41, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 12:15:01AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > Option "UseFBDev" only works with a 'real' framebuffer device. Does the > > > working system use aty128fb bu

Re: X breaks in CD-based installer environment

2002-04-27 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 00:41, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 12:15:01AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Option "UseFBDev" only works with a 'real' framebuffer device. Does the > > working system use aty128fb but the installation system OFfb? > > They are the exact same machine.

Re: X breaks in CD-based installer environment

2002-04-27 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 12:15:01AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Option "UseFBDev" only works with a 'real' framebuffer device. Does the > working system use aty128fb but the installation system OFfb? They are the exact same machine. That is why this is so annoying! :-) - Jimmy Kaplowitz [EMAIL

Re: X breaks in CD-based installer environment

2002-04-27 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 00:04, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > Hi XFree86 (and Debian X) people. I am in the process of porting PGI, > Progeny Linux Systems' X-based installer program for Debian, to PowerPC. > I have overcome several hurdles, except that on my iBook2, X refuses to do > any modeline process

X breaks in CD-based installer environment

2002-04-27 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
Hi XFree86 (and Debian X) people. I am in the process of porting PGI, Progeny Linux Systems' X-based installer program for Debian, to PowerPC. I have overcome several hurdles, except that on my iBook2, X refuses to do any modeline processing or find a usable configuration in the installer (running

Re: Splitting packages of video drivers in XF4.2 ?

2002-04-27 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2002-04-27 at 11:39, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > > I have some kind of wish to discuss which would makes life much less hard for > users of non-Debian-files: > > It is fact that not all graphics hardware runs with the drivers supplied with > XF4.x, some examples are: > some NVidia c

Re: Splitting packages of video drivers in XF4.2 ?

2002-04-27 Thread Malcolm Parsons
On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 11:39:59AM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > The problem is: most of those drivers (best example is Matrox) simply replace > some original files in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules. As those are not marked and > config files (and they are no config files and this is no_ request to ma

Splitting packages of video drivers in XF4.2 ?

2002-04-27 Thread Hendrik Sattler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have some kind of wish to discuss which would makes life much less hard for users of non-Debian-files: It is fact that not all graphics hardware runs with the drivers supplied with XF4.x, some examples are: some NVidia cards (if you