Hello,
I've tried to install 10.2 on an old PowerBook Titanium 500Mhz (Radeon M6 LY), but I can't get X to work. Anyone tried? Is this an xorg vs Xfree86 problem? The only "recent" Linux I found that does manage it correctly is Yellow Dog 4.1. However, running SuSE 10.2 on my PCs, I'd love to see it on my PPC as well.
Thierry
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On Sun, Mar 25, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
I've tried to install 10.2 on an old PowerBook Titanium 500Mhz (Radeon M6 LY), but I can't get X to work. Anyone tried? Is this an xorg vs Xfree86 problem?
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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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On Wed, Mar 28, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "radeon" Option "UseFBDev" "true" EndSection
usefbdev true will be the workaround. I wonder why it is still needed for some boards, like yours. Maybe loading the dri module will help. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+help@opensuse.org
Maybe the installer will start in graphical mode with the additional kernel cmdline option 'acceleratedx=1'. This will use the ati driver instead of fbdev during installation. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+help@opensuse.org
Am 25.03.2007 23:37 schrieb Thierry de Coulon:
I've tried to install 10.2 on an old PowerBook Titanium 500Mhz (Radeon M6 LY), but I can't get X to work. Anyone tried? Is this an xorg vs Xfree86 problem? The only "recent" Linux I found that does manage it correctly is Yellow Dog 4.1. However, running SuSE 10.2 on my PCs, I'd love to see it on my PPC as well.
Have you compread the xorg.conf of both Suse and Yellow Dog? Or used the dog-one on Suse?
OJ
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