Re: PowerPC Linux Despair < scream >

From: Jochen Rollwagen (jochenrollwagen_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/17/04

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    Date: 17 Nov 2004 05:21:23 -0800

    Dieter <no@nein.not> wrote in message news:<131120041655490145%no@nein.not>...
    > I've tried Mandrake, Yellow Dog, Gentoo ... there's always something
    > that goes wrong. Are there really people out there for whom Linux does
    > what it's told, with printing and all that 'normal' stuff?

    Well, after some tweaking and fiddling, sure :-). Which Version of
    yellowdog do you use ? I used 2.2, 2.3 and 3.0 and always got X
    working.
     
    > So, my request is this: is there some infintely patient tolerant soul
    > out these who can help me untangle what I'm doing wrong?? I'm quite
    > prepared to follow instructions, and post useful logs - if only I know
    > what's useful to post!
    >
    > Oh dear, all this makes me feel like a confused child ...

    1. Calm down
    2. You obviously have Console working. That should be helpful !
    3. What Graphics card do you use ?
    4. Enter 'dmesg' and look for the section where it detects your
    graphics card. Is that correct ?
    5. Look at /etc/X11/XFree86.log (or something like that).
    6. Try to run Xautoconfig (should be in /usr/X11R6/bin) and see what
    happens.

    > Dieter

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