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Hi! |
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first of all, greetings to everyone on this list, I'm a newcomer. :) |
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I've recently purchased a 12" G4/1Ghz pbook, and of course I |
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immediately [tried to] install Gentoo 1.4. I've used it on a Athlon |
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1600+ for a year now, without flaws. |
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So, I installed a stage 3, made a emerge -u world, waited these |
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24h of compilation, then emerged XFree86 and Xeasyconf. All |
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went well. Now, the troubles. I started Xeasyconf, and tried just |
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about everything. Nothing worked. |
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Basically, if I select the nv driver (on the pb I have a nvidia card) |
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it returned a "cannot read V_BIOS (5)" error, while if I selected the |
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fbdev driver with a color depth > 8, it gave me a |
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"FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid Argument". I understood |
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that this is a normal thing; I tried then to switch to 8 bit, and all right, |
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it was [almost] ok. TWM was blue (???), but it basically worked... |
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at 8 bit. Argh, metacity was really ugly. |
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On www.gentoo.it, I read an advice to emerge the latest |
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development Xfree86. I did it (4.3.99.902) and retried the said |
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procedures. With fbdev it's the same, while nv starts "something", |
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but the screen remains blank. It doesn't go stuck (i.e. fn+ctrl+alt+F1 |
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gives me back the console, F7 goes blank again), it just doesn't |
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show anything. |
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So the question, of course, is: what can I do to have a 16bit X? |
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I can send you the conf files, but I don't know if on this list |
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attachments are accepted/polite. Just in case, let me know. |
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Thanks so much in advance, |
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Germano Rizzo |
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