X11 display problem with YDL 3.0 on a PPC 7200/90

Mon Jun 30 05:44:01 2003

Thanks a lot Felix,

In fact to solution to my problem was very simple indeed...
In the first place my display settings (generic OF compatible & generic 800 * 600 standard vga) were wrong so I then went through the settings again (generic OF compatible & apple multiscan 15 display) and it now works a lot better (a fair enough 832 * 624 * 256 colors). Although i obviously still have a video driver problem since the PPC 7200/90 documentation says i should be able to display "millions of colors" with 4 MB VRAM i am satisfied with it as it now is.

> Try to change the left and right alignment of the screen either by 
> experimenting with the config file or any other method that might move 
> the image to the right; I think that the alignment is off and that the 
> other side of the screen is, well, obviously displaying the wrong part. 
> Also note that it might be a video card problem.
> -AliasN
> 
> On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 08:20  PM, louis.courau@popmail.com wrote:
> 
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I have recently installes YDL 3.0 on a PPC 7200/90 from iso files and 
> > that worked fine.
> > There are 2 systems on it :  mac o.s. 8.6 and YDL and i use the bootx 
> > bootloader.
> > Plz note that the display is fine under mac o.s. ans that it worked 
> > perfectly in both text and video mode during the whole install > process.
> > You may also want to know that the monitor is an apple multiple scan 
> > 15 display.
> >
> > Now the problem is that since i finished the installation i couldn't 
> > get the X11 system to work properly :
> > the text mode is ok but if i run startx then the screen splits in 2 
> > parts the left half is displayed right and the right half is displayed 
> > left. How weird ?
> > I've tried to set the "screen" and "device" values /etc/XF86Config 
> > file but it only got worse.
> > I've also tried different video drivers (default is fdbdev with 4MB 
> > VRAM) but it didn't get better.
> >
> > Is this a known issue ?
> > Is there a way to get the XF86Config file used during installation 
> > (this one proved to work) ?
> > What can i do ?
> >
> >
> > I'd be very grateful if you could get me some advice.
> >
> > Thank You anyway.
> >
> > Louis Courau
> >
> >
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