G3 iMacs display and sound

[Oscar G. Maldonado]

El mi? 01-10-2003 a las 11:11,
yellowdog-newbie-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com escribió:

Hi Reid...

> I'm currently running YDL 3.0 Sirius on an iMac.  That machine is a G3
> 400MHz, 128MB ram, 10GB hard drive.  I have been having several issues with
> it.  Firstly, when I installed it, the installation system was unable to go
> into graphical mode.  After installation, I've noticed than when I log out,
> and X restarts, the monitor goes blank.  I first thought that this was the
> computer becoming unresponsive, but after it occurred several times, I
> connected an external monitor to the computer when the iMac's screen went
> blank.  Immediately, the login screen appeared on the external monitor, but
> in 640x480.  
I've already post a fix to this video issue a couple a days ago, but
here it goes again... I really hope that you can solve this annoing
problem...

AFAIK, the main problem reside on the XFree 4.3.0 server, I have an old
imac DV 400 and my problem with the X server was that whenever I logged
out the X server died, that makes me reboot to get the X server again.
After a lot of searching on linux sites for a probable fix I found this
part of code:

Section "Device"

Identifier   "ATI Rage 128 PRO"
# You can obtain the Bus Id for your card by: 
# cat /proc/pci and change 16 for the value of 
# your card
BusID     "PCI:0:16:0"
Driver      "r128"
Option     "UseFBDev" ""
BoardName   "ATI Rage 128 PRO"
EndSection

Up to the info I was reading, this config uses the Ati 128 video driver
but still use the framebuffer driver. Now I can logout or restart the X
server and get it back again, if you need I can send you a copy of my
XFconfig file.

> Also, the iMac's sound will not work until I run the soundcard detection applet on each boot.  Are these issues resolvable?  I have 32 of
> these iMacs, all the same except for varying amounts of ram (128-320MB) and
> all but this one running OS 9.22.  I'm beginning to feel glad that I decided
> to pilot Linux on one machine at first, and not have them all down right
> now.

I never have any problems with my sound, the only thing that comes to me rigth now, is to check if the esound daemon is running from the system start

> I appreciate your help.

Good luck !!

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