On 4/20/02 9:17 AM, "Ben Reser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 08:53:27AM +0100, Colin Ward wrote: >> How do I edit XF86Config-4 from within the terminal. I can navigate through >> the file system ok, but don't know how to edit a particular file from with >> in it. (I know I should). Also someone just wanting to try ML wouldn't know >> what to do if they where new to it. There are more of these apple monitors >> sold with pre silver G4s than any others. But any help is appreciated > > Short Answer: > pico /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 I get pico command not found. I obviously don't have it installed (although I picked everything from the test install). How do I do this? I take is I would have to get it from one of the cd's? Which one and how ( I am new to CLI) > > Longer Answer is well pretty hard to answer without knowing preciously > what needs to be done or going into a really long explanation of how the > XF86 Config files are setup. > > However, have you tried adding: > append="video=ofonly" > (if you already have append=" devfs=mount" then it would be, > append=" devfs=mount video=ofonly") > > You can add that to your yaboot.conf via; > pico /etc/yaboot.conf > > When you're done run (as root): > ybin > > ybin installs the bootloder options from the yaboot.conf config file. Just ybin , or ybin -v ? Yes i need to get in there to ad my osx line. The installer didn't ask me if I wanted to do this (add another os). > I got the ofonly thing from this mailing list post: > http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/2/2002/1/0/7690737/ > > Otherwise searching for a prewritten XF86Config-4 file (which is what I > started to do when I found the above link) for your video card + monitor > should resolve your problem. Then all you'd need to do is copy it over > the existing /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. You probably will want to copy the > existing one to save it in case the new one doesn't work. I usually do: > cp /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.mdk > > HTH I just wish I have the right line to put in so I could get a graphical install. I have thought about putting in my radeon card and seeing if it will pick it up from install with install-radeon. I may need to get back to few times with this, so please be patient with me. Many thanks.
