ydl 3.0 on a 17" iMac (John Howland) (Philippe SIMONS)

[John Howland]

On Wed, 7 May 2003 "Philippe SIMONS" <philippe.simons@jrc.it> wrote:

> Here is what I have found ... For me, now it fully works... 
> 
> Try with this modeline in the monitor section: 
> 
> Modeline "1440x900" 129.73 1440 1480 1616 1848 900 903 906 936 -HSync
> -VSync 
> 
> and with this device section: 
> 
> BusID "PCI:0:16:0" 
> Option "DPMS" 
> Option "FlatPanel" "true" 
> Option "CrtcNumber" "0" 
> 
> 
> Thanks for the Anonymous at TUXPPC Forum who post this !!!!

Thanks to Philippe for this message.  It seems that

Option "CrtcNumber" "0"

rather than

Option "CrtcNumber" "1" 

(which is what the supplied tools and YellowDog installer produce)
is the key to getting X to work on my 17" FP iMac.

> 
> PhS

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