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Hi Phil, |
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I am attaching a configuration file that I saved while running |
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Yellowdog. I was trying Debian and Mandrake and I could not get X going |
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on neither of those. Yellowdog and Gentoo were the two I could use. |
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Notice that this XF86config is for a G4 with the Apple studio display. |
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However, it has some modelines specific to the imac. Also, did you try |
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the conmmand: |
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XFree86 -configure |
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This is what the man pages say about it and it worked great on my computer. |
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-configure |
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When this option is specified, the X server loads all |
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video |
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driver modules, probes for available hardware, and |
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writes out |
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an initial XF86Config(5x) file based on what was |
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detected. |
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This option currently has some problems on some |
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platforms, but |
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in most cases it is a good way to bootstrap the |
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configuration |
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process. This option is only available when the server |
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is run |
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as root (i.e, with real-uid 0). |
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After you do this you might want to check for your mouse because as I |
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recall the imac has a USB mouse. The input device under Gentoo is |
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/dev/input/mice. |
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Good luck, |
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Alvaro Zuniga |
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Phil Cryer wrote: |
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>I downloaded and burned the live GentooPPC with Gnome. Tried it out on my |
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>daughters 350Mhz (slot loading) iMac with 512Megs RAM. Disk boots up fine and |
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>get's into Gentoo (so nice to see on her little iMac), but once I get done |
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>running Xeasyconf, I can't get X running. No screens found regardless of how |
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>many times I try/retry to configure the video. Does anyone have this running? |
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>What settings were used? |
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>It's very exciting to have this option, should be fun to start mailing my |
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>Maconly friends some cdrs with this for them to try out. I'm planning on trying |
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>it out here at work today on a dual 800 box too. |
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>Thanks |
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