[ydl-gen] Re: X on ancient iBook

[Bill Mueller]

Andrew,

If possible, post the contents of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf
here.

Only general tips I can give are to make sure the driver selected
is 'fbdev' (i believe thats correct syntax) and set your color depth
to 15.

I tried googling for an example (I don't have the machine) but came up
empty.  But feel free to give it a try.  Either way, seeing what Xautoconfig
is producing would be most helpful.

-Bill

> On 08/06/06, Andrew Ball <xless at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> On 07/06/06, Andrew Ball <xless at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> > > I have a 300 MHz clamshell iBook that I was hoping to use as
>> > > a VNC terminal and perhaps for some light duty Web browsing.
>> > > This morning I installed Yellow Dog Linux and found that the
>> > > supplied X server does not work on my iBook. I couldn't find
>> > > an X configuration program, so I'm stuck at the command
>> > > line.  The Terra Soft Web site suggests that the machine has
>> > > an ATI Rage Mobility, 2x AGP with 4 Mb VRAM and 2D hardware
>> > > acceleration.  I may try building a fresh X from source, but
>> > > if anyone out there has any tips or alternative suggestions
>> > > they would be most welcome.
>> Hello Eric,
>>
>>    > Well, a bit more googling and I've found the answer:
>>    > Boot into command line (e.g. linux 2 at the boot prompt)
>>    > cd /usr/X11/bin
>>    > ./Xautoconfig
>>    > init 5
>>
>> That seems to have had no effect.  The display switches into
>> a graphics mode, but it looks as though either the frame
>> buffer memory is laid out differently than the X server
>> thinks, or the display is unable to cope with the signal
>> being fed to it by the CRTC. Both of these are guesses based
>> on what I'm seeing on the screen: if I squint it looks like
>> a graphical logon screen has been stretched off the right-
>> hand edge of the LCD and back on the other side. It's almost
>> as though a blank column of pixels has been inserted between
>> each column of pixels that /would/ be normal if the colours
>> weren't way off. If it helps, I can take a photograph of the
>> LCD and post it on the Web somewhere.
>>
>> - Andy Ball.
>
> #1. Did you try running Xautoconfig?
>
> #2. Have you looked at your /etc/X11/XF86Config file? It seems like
> your screen size might be off.
>
> #3. Subscribe to yellowdog-general
> (<http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general>).
> I'm going to CC: your message there b/c I suspect more people capable
> of answering your question are subscribed to YDL-gen.
>
> Unrelated note to YDL/Terrasoft people:
>
> Would it be worth rolling YDL-gen and YDL-newbie into one list? The
> traffic volume on both lists has dropped significantly over the past
> year.
>
> Eric.
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