Ah ha - XFDrake - will give it a go - I have an ATI Rage 128 Pro. I
presume you mean that "UseFBDev: is an argument of XFdrake - anyway,
will kick up Mandrake soon and have another look.
BTW - having now installed LPPC2000Q4, SUSE7.0 and YDL2, MD is by far
the easiest install, though LPPC made all the right decisions about
the video card - but only running xpmac.
So far, for my money, Mandrake is the winner, but I haven't really
got to productivity stage yet
At 5:12 -0700 27/8/01, you wrote:
>On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Ken Simpson wrote:
>
>> Hi, Been trying out the RC for a few days now on my 2 Macs.
>>
>> Install went like a dream on my G3 Powerbook (Lombard).
>>
>> However, when I cam to install on my G4 500 AGP it was a bit of a
>> different story.
>>
>> I had 2 problems.
>>
>> the one I can't figure out is, that when I startx - I get pages of
>> errors at the console about unsupported resolutions and refresh rates.
>>
>> I have tried a few different settings to no avail.
>>
>> I chose the Generic SVGA with a resoultion and H refres that I know
>> work on my monitor with no effect.
>>
>> I can't find xconfigurator, or xautoconfig to adjust the settings
>> without going through a complete reinstall.
>>
>> Can anyone suggest a way forward?
>>
>
>[root@powerbook root]# XFdrake
>
>This is Mandrake's X configuration tool. I doubt the generic SVGA will do
>much for you. Do you know what video card is in this machine? In some
>cases adding the:
>
>Option "UseFBDev"
>
>is the trick to getting X working - I've added this as default now for
>Rage128.
>
>> The second problem was the that the installer got the MacOS side of
>> the yaboot setup wrong. I can fix that, but it should get it right.
>> Why is it using such an old version of yaboot?
>>
>
>I don't really have a good way of knowing exactly which partition MacOS is
>on. I take a guess essentially, which works in most simple cases.
>
>Haven't had a pressing need to go with the newer versions yet. It's sort
>of a crap shoot, as I've also read of issues with the newer versions on
>some machines. The version we are using seems to successfully boot a
>fairly broad spectrum of machines.
>
Fair enough. 1.2.1 works fine on my G4 - but that's only one machine.
Interesting that Openfirmware can detect where the apple boot ptns
are, but that there seems to be no way of detecting it from where you
have to - which I presume is OS dependent.
Anyway, thanks for the reply!
--
Regards
Ken
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