From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:59:50 -0500 Subject: Re: Xfree86 4.0 From: "James B. Parker" To: LinuxPPC Developer Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: from schmitz@mail.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de on 3/13/00 1:59 PM > You'll need to create a new XF86Config (XFree86 -configure should, in > theory, do that). > Depending on your kind of video hardware, XFree 4.0 will just not work at > this time. I spent the last few days debugging the X server on my Lombard > and almost trashed my installation in the process. It seems with the new > XFree release, the X server on PPC finally became equally unstable as the > Intel one :-) > Michael > > Actually, I do have a XF86Config file. After the build/install I ran Xconfigurator (it finally recognized 6mb of vram) and then just skipped the test section. BTW, my video hardware is the basic rage pro found in rev. 2 G3's. I am pretty sure Xconfig recognized the chip. My main problem now is just solving the "no screens" issue. So what are screens and where are they located? James ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/