Re: PowerPC Linux Despair < scream >

From: Dieter (no_at_nein.not)
Date: 11/18/04

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    In article <f2ab87c9.0411170521.3f231b7b@posting.google.com>, Jochen
    Rollwagen <jochenrollwagen@yahoo.com> wrote:

    > 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

    Hi Jochen, and thanks for your reply.

    Graphics card on my Windtunnel G4 is a ATI Radeon 9000, but it's harder
    to say exactly what card is on the earlier PowerPCs, because as I
    understand it it's not really a 'card' but my best guess is AAPL
    343S1154 (this is a 7300/200)

    As far as YDL is concerned I've tried 2.2, 2.3 and lastly 3.0.1.

    I got somewhere with 3.0.1, but a flickery display, and an ill-fitting
    resolution (there was only one resolution to 'choose') which left me
    with an un-centred screen which hardly contained anything. Even though
    I specified Gnome to install, it gave me KDE.

    I've kept the /etc/X11/XFree86.logs - because that's where I've had
    trouble with Debian. The last attempt (on the 7300) gave me this (at
    the end)

    Symbol fbPictureInit from module
    /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/fbdev_drv.o is unresolved!

    Fatal server error:
    Caught signal 11. Server aborting

    However, I haven't tried running Xautoconfig, so perhaps that will help
    me out.

    Thanks

    Dieter

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