How to get Graphical GUI / Xwindows @ PM4400/ Suse 7.1PPC ?
I'm unable to get any XR86 configured like this; although Yast and the dancing
I finally got Suse PPC 7.1 installed at my OldWorld PowerMac4400 with: ATI Mach 64 onboard graphics chip , 4 MB VRAM ; Apple 14" Color display , supporting 832x624@75 in 16 or 24 bit color. (or 800x600@72 , etc); all very straightforward at a standalone machine, following the manual. All necessary packages were correctly installed using yast and the pre-configured "Games-configuration" of Suse PPC 7.1. After a smooth startup using BootX, I can login as root (runlevel 3) and that's about it... I cannot switch to any Xwindow server or anything; trying to start "Sax2" gives a black screen for a second, and then my root-prompt back; entering "startx" gives just the following error messages from the server-log: (**)FBDev(0): claimed PCI slot 0:17:0 ( I I ) FBDev (0): using default device (WW)****INVALID IO ALLOCATION**** b: 0x400 e: 0x4ff correcting (EE) FBdev(0): xf86RegisterResources found resource conflicts. (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error : no screens found. XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. Then I again just get my root-prompt back ... NB: I also tried switching to runlevel 5 (one second a black screen and root prompt back); and giving BootX the following more kernel arguments at startup: video=atyfb:vmode:13 penguin at startup work o.k and give a sharp graphical image any time... How can I make Sax2 / startx / Xwindow or any KDE desktop work ??? Thanks for any help.. cheers, Carolus van Soest carolus@mac.com
On Mon, Jul 16, Carolus wrote:
I finally got Suse PPC 7.1 installed at my OldWorld PowerMac4400 with: ATI Mach 64 onboard graphics chip , 4 MB VRAM ; Apple 14" Color display , supporting 832x624@75 in 16 or 24 bit color. (or 800x600@72 , etc); all very straightforward at a standalone machine, following the manual. All necessary packages were correctly installed using yast and the pre-configured "Games-configuration" of Suse PPC 7.1.
After a smooth startup using BootX, I can login as root (runlevel 3) and that's about it... I cannot switch to any Xwindow server or anything; trying to start "Sax2" gives a black screen for a second, and then my root-prompt back; entering "startx" gives just the following error messages from the server-log:
(**)FBDev(0): claimed PCI slot 0:17:0 ( I I ) FBDev (0): using default device (WW)****INVALID IO ALLOCATION**** b: 0x400 e: 0x4ff correcting (EE) FBdev(0): xf86RegisterResources found resource conflicts. (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
Fatal server error : no screens found.
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
Then I again just get my root-prompt back ...
Can you have a look at `cat /proc/fb`, is OFfb active? If yes, dont boot with "No video driver". The Ati chip in the 4400 is a bit tricky, can you boot with "video=atyfb:vmode:13:cmode:8"?
NB: I also tried switching to runlevel 5 (one second a black screen and root prompt back); and giving BootX the following more kernel arguments at startup:
video=atyfb:vmode:13
I'm unable to get any XR86 configured like this; although Yast and the dancing penguin at startup work o.k and give a sharp graphical image any time... How can I make Sax2 / startx / Xwindow or any KDE desktop work ???
I guess the 2.4 kernel should work better, but try the above first. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...
Briefly, for those who might still be having difficulties getting AA fonts in KDE2, here is what I did I have the latest KDE packages and the latest X Windows 4.1.0 packages from SuSE. You must have QT-2.3.1 installed. I created a small executable script: /etc/profile.d/qt.sh which looks like this: ################################# # Qt initialization script (sh) if [ -z "$QTDIR" ] ; then QTDIR="/usr/lib/qt-2.3.1" fi export QTDIR export QT_XFT=TRUE ################################## Make sure the permissions are set so that users can read this file. I then turned on AA fonts in Kcontrol->Look and Feel->Style I made sure that my XF86Config file had the path to my True Type fonts (I was told this is necessary and indeed, KDE only looks for fonts in this directory now AA is active). /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/ I then restarted X Windows/KDE If you open Konqueror, you will see that the fonts are AA. However, the truetype fonts that come with SUSE are not very nice, so you need to get yourself some decent TT fonts. You can use, if you care to, the Windows 3.1 TT fonts from M$: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm Just unzip the .exe packages with 'unzip' A google search for "free true type fonts" also brings up lots of fonts. I found these two sites to be pretty good: http://fonts.linuxpower.org/ http://www.galactica.de/freefonts.htm Unpack the .exe and mv the .ttf files to the truetype directory. They should be available immediately. Make sure permissions are set so that users can read them. You do not need to restart X. It worked for me, I hope it works for you. Joss --
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