On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Generation NeXT wrote: > Hi all, > > Sorry, to get off track. I'm just an eager newbie > trying to get it to work. Actually, I think I made a > mistake with the cube. My last succesful system was a > Powerbok G4 Titanium (500MHz) w/ the ATI Rage. I had > so many problems with it, that Apple upgraded it to > the Powerbook G4 Titanium (667MHz) w/ the ATI Radeon > Mobility. Before, I don't believe I got either the > cube, nor the newer Powerbook to work. But reading > through the archives, the Titanium updates look > encouraging. > > Back to the Cube + Radeon, I was wondering if I can do > anything here. I am only guessing, but I think the > video resolution is being set to 1152x768, which is > incompatible with the Apple Studio Display 15 (15" > LCD, 1024x786, 72dpi). I remember seeing others with > different video card run into similar problems, but I > am unsure how they steered around this. > > I have two ideas from this vantive: > > (1) Try multi-sync monitor with cube that supports > 1152x768. > (2) See if I can change the default video > resolution. > > Number 2 would be ideal for the rare celestial > occurance that someone else might have a similar > config. > > Before I mention that I found this file: > /Mandrake/mdkinst/etc/X11/XConf-radeon > > One video mode was specified as 1152x7668. Is this > the file that is used? Is there anyway I can change > this to get it to work. I can mount the iso image, > edit the files, and then burn a modified ISO image. > > Though, I am totally unfamilar with edit these > configuration files. It looks logical, but I am > worried, that these settings refer to something else. > I coudn't find anyother configurations for other video > cards. Are these compressed somewhere? >
That's the only XFree config. Everything else uses Xpmac, which doesn't use a config file. The "normal" fallback if none of the graphic installation methods work is to do a text-based install and then deal with X once you're system is up. Yes you could alter that config file, but I don't know what to tell you to put there off the top of my head, not having access to the hardware. As I said, the radeon for the TiBooks was the first attempt at using XFree for the installer. If you come up with a good modeline, I'll be more than happy to add it in. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&r=1&w=2
