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From: "Mark M. Hart" <markmhart@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-ppc-user@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-ppc-user] ATI configuration?
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 13:26:59
Message-Id: 03a301c66f7e$4d932850$6501a8c0@mark
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] ATI configuration? by David Gurvich
1 I'm new at this, and I don't know about ebuild yet. Can you give me a hint
2 about what I should do to get the Xorgautoconfig built?
3
4 Thanks!
5
6 Mark M. Hart
7 markmhart@×××××.com
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9 -----Original Message-----
10 From: David Gurvich [mailto:david.gurvich@×××××××.net]
11 Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 4:59 AM
12 To: gentoo-ppc-user@l.g.o
13 Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] ATI configuration?
14
15 There is an ebuild Xorgautoconfig specifically for this purpose. The
16 generated xorg.conf needs some slight adjustments but seems to give good
17 results.
18 On Thursday 04 May 2006 7:34 am, Mark M. Hart wrote:
19 > I have a beige G3 desktop 233mhz with 512M ram that has an ATI chipset on
20 > the motherboard and an ATI chipset in a PCI VGA card (which the monitor is
21 > attached to). When I use xorgconfig I have to use fbdev as the ati choice
22 > will not work on testing. This gives me a 1280x1024 screen which works
23 > well on a 17” monitor, but the colors are all wrong.
24 >
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26 >
27 > When I use Xorg –configure I get a working configuration with the ati
28 > driver, but the screen is (maybe) 640x480 and that’s it. I’ve tried
29 > merging the two files in every combination I can think of, and am not
30 > getting anywhere.
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33 >
34 > Thanks in advance for your help!
35 >
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37 >
38 > Mark M. Hart
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