From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3AF1D91F.7030801@iiic.ethz.ch> Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 00:18:07 +0200 From: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jason E. Stewart" Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Success! (was Re: External Monitor under Pismo) References: <20010404092143.EFE4C2F01B@apollo.valhalla.net> <3ACB537B.99B851B9@netfall.com> <87hf0433qs.fsf@amadeus.openinformatics.com> <3ACB6167.3B2E0242@iiic.ethz.ch> <878zlg31mw.fsf@amadeus.openinformatics.com> <3ACB9611.C95D16A2@iiic.ethz.ch> <87ae5w1ce3.fsf@amadeus.openinformatics.com> <3ACB9EB3.2661FFCE@iiic.ethz.ch> <87u242zz7y.fsf@amadeus.openinformatics.com> <3ACCFFBB.58CC75D2@iiic.ethz.ch> <87itjmf7lf.fsf_-_@amadeus.openinformatics.com> <3AEDEF2D.4B823134@iiic.ethz.ch> <87wv7x984o.fsf@amadeus.openinformatics.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Jason E. Stewart wrote: > "Michel Dänzer" writes: > >> I am reluctant to do that. I'd prefer to get a solution into XFree86. >> >> Someone please try the attached patch against current CVS. It turns Option >> "UseBIOSDisplay" (which probably doesn't work for us - no BIOS here...) into >> Option "Display" which accepts modes "CRT", "FP", "Mirror" and "BIOS". > > > Hey Michel, > > I've had a heck of a time with this one. Using the new r128_drv.o that > I compile from the CVS HEAD gives me an error that the module is using > a newer ABI than the server... > > So I compiled and installed the whole X package from CVS (into > /usr/X11R6-local using ProjectRoot). Might have been enough to use the new XFree86 binary as well. > I get some strange behavior, namely it doesn't find my .xsession and the > keyboard input is messed up (I have to type '1', 'n', '5', '3', '8') to > type exit. Do you use Xkb? That can be rather tricky. I have Option "XkbDisable" in the Keyboard section. > I tried to use my old X configuration and it doesn't work at all, > server just hangs. I figured some configuration files in /etc/X11 must > have gotten stomped by the CVS install of X, so I ran dpkg --remove of > xserver-common and xserver-xfree86, followed by an apt-get install, > but it's still hosed. We'd need a bit more information here, most importantly the important parts of XF86Configs and logs. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/