YDL on a G4 Cube

Maxwell Bottiger yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Fri, 8 Aug 2003 09:08:25 -0400 (EDT)


Well, thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't change anything.

On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Harvey Ussery wrote:

> 
> On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 02:52 PM, Maxwell Bottiger wrote:
> 
> > Yes, it's an LCD.
> >
> In that case, I'm posting below a copy of the XF86Config file that 
> finally worked for me. Don't know if it will help, since you have an 
> entirely different model, but for what it's worth:
> 
> 
> # XFree86 4 configuration created by redhat-config-xfree86
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
> 	Identifier     "XFree86 Configured"
> 	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
> 	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> 	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Files"
> 
> # RgbPath is the location of the RGB database.  Note, this is the name 
> of the
> # file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db").  There is normally
> # no need to change the default.
> # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
> # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
> # the X server to render fonts.
> 	RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
> 	FontPath     "unix/:7100"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Module"
> 	Load  "dbe"
> 	Load  "extmod"
> 	Load  "fbdevhw"
> 	Load  "glx"
> 	Load  "record"
> 	Load  "freetype"
> 	Load  "type1"
> 	#Load	"dri"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> 
> # Change "XkbModel" to "macintosh_old" if you are using
> # the deprecated adb keycodes.
> 	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
> 	Driver      "keyboard"
> 	Option	    "XkbRules" "xfree86"
> 	Option	    "XkbModel" "macintosh"
> 	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
> 	Identifier  "Mouse0"
> 	Driver      "mouse"
> 	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> 	Option	    "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> 	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Monitor"
> 
> 	#Option		"DPMS"
> 	Identifier   "Monitor0"
> 	ModelName    "Monitor Model"
> 	HorizSync    30.0 - 130.0
> 	VertRefresh  50.0 - 160.0
> 	Option	     "FlatPanel"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
> 	Identifier  "Card0"
> 	Driver      "nv"
> 	BoardName   "Unknown video card"
> 	Option	    "CrtcNumber" "0"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
> 	Identifier "Screen0"
> 	Device     "Card0"
> 	Monitor    "Monitor0"
> 	DefaultDepth     16
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Depth     8
> 		Modes    "1440x900"
> 	EndSubSection
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Depth     16
> 		Modes    "1440x900"
> 	EndSubSection
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Depth     24
> 		Modes    "1440x900"
> 	EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> Section "DRI"
> 	Group        0
> 	Mode         0666
> EndSection
> 
> The three lines that I changed as I worked through the problem & which 
> you might look at especially closely:
> (1) Section "Monitor": Note that I "commented out" the line "Option   
> 'DPMS'"
> (2) I added the line in that same section: "Option    'FlatPanel'" 
> (though truthfully the addition didn't seem critical)
> (3) Most importantly, in Section "Device": I changed     Option    
> "CrtcNumber" from "1" to "0".
> 
> Hope this helps.   Good luck.     --Harvey
> 
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