I have a machine similar to J.M. Brough, a G4 PowerMac with an ATI
Radeon 9200 PCI card in it.
I updated my card's ROM through the software available at ATI so mine
reads (from the Mac OS X partition):
ATI 4.5.1 Radeon 9200
Card#: 109-actually gives numbers here-00
Card Model: ATY, RV280
ROM: ATY, Bugsy_A
FCode version: 1.94
NDRV version: 1.0.1f59
VRAM: 128MB
I installed the Xautoconfig tool from <
http://www.bytebot.net/
geekdocs/ibook/fedorappc.html> as you suggest. I tried various
options, and got the following results:
with --safe option ==> an X cursor on a black screen. I can move the
cursor, but I when I right click, I get no menu. This is the best
I've got so far. X log at <
http://www.pdc.kth.se/~mike/ppc/Bunny/
Xorg_log_xautoconfig_safe>. It is not clear to me that this
configuration is usable as is.
with --fbdev option ==> as above, log at <
http://www.pdc.kth.se/~mike/
ppc/Bunny/Xorg_log_xautoconfig_fbdev>
with no options ==> dies with log as shown in <
http://www.pdc.kth.se/
~mike/ppc/Bunny/Xorg_log_xautoconfig_noopts>
I brought over a working xorg.conf from Ubuntu running on another G4
with the same card in it. See <
http://www.pdc.kth.se/~mike/ppc/
Monkey/xorg.conf> and the happy log it produces on Ubuntu <http://
www.pdc.kth.se/~mike/ppc/Monkey/Xorg.0.log>
When I try this xorg.conf under Fedora rawhide, it bombs see log at
<
http://www.pdc.kth.se/~mike/ppc/Bunny/Xorg_log_ubuntu_working>. A
careful analysis of the working X log on the one machine and the
failing log on the other should give a pretty good hint as to what is
wrong, I suspect. A simple diff, unfortunately, is a bit messy. I
haven't had a chance to look through the two logs extensively to get
at what the real differences are. Perhaps someone with more X
knowledge could give it a whirl?
/Mike
On Jun 21, 2005, at 6:56 PM, David Woodhouse wrote:
On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 17:41 +0100, J.M.Brough wrote:
> Anyway, has anyone successfully installed FC4 on the above type
> machine without losing 2 cms of their display? If so, would they
> email the xorg config file for me to try. It would be most
> appreciated. Using linux on the mac reminds me of using linux on the
> PC about 2-3 years ago!
>
Have you tried using the Xautoconfig tool linked from
http://www.bytebot.net/geekdocs/ibook/fedorappc.html ?
--
dwmw2
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