Re: [opensuse-ppc] Opensuse 10.2 and old TiBook

28 Mar 2007

      Problem: no X with SuSE 10.2 on a 2001 PowerBook Titanium G4 (Radeon M6LY)

OK, I've "solved" my problem, however it's not clear to me exactly how. 
Basically, I have taken the xorg.conf produced by YDL 4.1 (I think they have 
a tool called Xconfigurator, but trying to install the rpm on SuSE threw such 
a list of dependencies that I didn't go further) and patched it with most 
elements from the SuSE xorg.conf; X would not start with fbdev, so I tried 
substituting "radeon" and... it seems to work.

At least I have a working KDE as root, I'll investigate the rest now.

For anyone interrested, here is my xorg.conf:

# File generated by Xautoconfig.

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database.  Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db").  There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/local"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/URW"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Speedo"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin2/Type1"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/japanese:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/kwintv"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/uni:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/CID"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/hellas/Type1"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled"
  FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/xtest"
  FontPath     "/opt/kde3/share/fonts"
  FontPath     "unix/:7100"
  InputDevices "/dev/gpmdata"
  InputDevices "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
  Option       "AllowMouseOpenFail" "on"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "fbdevhw"
	Load  "freetype"
	Load  "type1"
	#Load	"dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "kbd"
  Identifier   "Keyboard0"
  Option       "Protocol" "Standard"
  Option       "XkbLayout" "ch"
  Option       "XkbModel" "macintosh"
  Option       "XkbRules" "xfree86"
  Option       "XkbVariant" "fr"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "mouse"
  Identifier   "Mouse0"
  Option       "Buttons" "5"
  Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
  Option       "Name" "Apple Macintosh mouse button emulation"
  Option       "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
  Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"
  Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	ModelName    "Apple Titanium PowerBook G4 (2001)"
	HorizSync    30.0 - 100.0
	VertRefresh  50.0 - 60.0
	Option	    "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"

	#Option	"ShadowFB"	"true"
	#Option	"fbdev"	"/dev/fb0"
	#BusID	"0:16:0"
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "radeon"
        #other option: radeon
	BoardName   "Unknown video card"
	Option	    "UseFBDev" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     8
		Modes    "1152x768"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     16
		Modes    "1152x768"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1152x768"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     15
		Modes    "1152x768"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Group        0
	Mode         0666
EndSection

Any suggestion for improvements will gladly be taken :)

Thierry

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Re: [opensuse-ppc] Opensuse 10.2 and old TiBook

Thierry de Coulon