/dev/null wrote:
From the command line.. start yast go through to System Admin then configure XFree86 you should have the option of SAX
have fun.. and make windows with X!!
OK, I've solved my hard disk problem, so I'm back to this. I need to configure XFree86 (version 3.3.6, not 4.x). Unfortunately, I don't get the choice "Configure XFree86(TM)" in YaST System Administration. I suppose it may have been there in the beta - Fig. 3.17 of the handbook shows such a menu item, but then it says "The X Window System can be configured with different configuration tools" and sends you to Chapter 8, i.e., to that xsfbswitch thing which fails here. No trace of SaX either on my hard drive, nor in the package list at http://www.suse.de/en/produkte/susesoft/ppc/Pakete/gesamt.html. Looks like they scraped it off in 7.0 PPC... Can I download it somewhere and install it so as to regain the option? Or can I edit an appropriate config file (which one?) by hand? I got this answer from SuSE Support:
Which monitor are you using? Is that a multiscan monitor? Try to enter video=controlfb:vmode:10 in BootX App and start up your linux. Is X working now? If yes, edit the etc/rc.config and change CREATE_FBCONF="yes" to CREATE_FBCONF="init".
Unfortunately, that changes nothing :-( The monitor is an Apple Multiple Scan 15 Display (http://til.euro.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n15754), and the machine a Power Macintosh 7300/180 (http://www.info.apple.com/applespec/applespec.taf?RID=235). Some lines I found in log files, that may be relevant: in /var/log/Config.bootup: -------------------------- XFree86 not configured yet! No graphical login. Check /etc/XF86Config. in /var/log/boot.msg: --------------------- <6>MacOS display is /chaos/control <6>Monitor sense value = 0x603, using video mode 10 and color mode 2. <4>Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x37 <6>fb0: control display adapter in /var/log/xsfbswitch.log: --------------------------- couldn't connect to display ":0" at /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/ppc-linux/Tk/MainWindow.pm line 55. MainWindow->new(-screen,,-bd,1,-relief,groove) at /usr/X11R6/lib/xsfb/xsfbswitch.pl line 42 Please help! Hope springs eternal. hysterion