Known Blue and White G3 PPC problems

sloopy sloopy at ydl.net
Mon May 16 13:57:01 MDT 2005


On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 14:30, Noo Soo wrote:
> Is anyone familliar with monitor/video card problems on the B&W G3?  The 
> monitor is a 17" Studio B&W. I'm getting a configuration error after 
> installation.  Does anyone know the proper configuration for this comp as 
> well as steps to change it?
> 
> thanks
> 
> nick
> 

hmmm there shouldnt be any problems with B&W's i have a B&W G3-400 and a
B&W G3-300 and they work fine, here is my conf for X with my ViewSonic
A70f...

sloopy.


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# File generated by Xautoconfig.

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     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/korean:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2/misc:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2/75dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2/100dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-9/misc:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-9/75dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-9/100dpi:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/KOI8-R/misc:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/KOI8-R/75dpi:unscaled"
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 "Modes"

	# Generated
	# D: 64.994 MHz, H: 48.359 kHz, V: 59.998 Hz
	Identifier     "Modes0"
	ModeLine     "1024x768" 65.0 1024 1064 1200 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	ModelName    "Monitor Model"
	UseModes     "Modes0"
	HorizSync    30.0 - 70.0
	VertRefresh  50.0 - 60.0
	Option	    "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"

	### Available Driver options are:-
	#Option	"SWcursor"
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "r128"
	BoardName   "Unknown video card"
	Option	    "HWcursor"
	Option	    "UseFBDev" "true"
	BusID       "PCI:0:16:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     8
		Modes    "1024x768"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     16
		Modes    "1024x768"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     15
		Modes    "1024x768"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Group        0
	Mode         0666
EndSection



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