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.



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