> Renaud Dreyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > In general, how did the people with running Debian ppc boxes manage > > to get X up and running? I still can't get Xpmac to work, and if I > > switch to XF68_FBDev, there's no tool to generate a valid XF86Config file > > I could find. Since Debian PowerPC is about to get released very soon, > > I'm sure there must a solution somewhere that is planned. Thanks, > > i installed debianppc without boot disks, but instead used linuxppc as > a base and did some very strange things to get it working. but it > works now. > > i used linuxppc's Xautoconfig to generate an initial XF86Config. in > linuxppc, the idea is that you run this every time you boot, and you > *never* actually write your own XF86Config. Xautoconfig looks at the > frame-buffer settings, keyboard & mouse settings, a few other magic > things, and generates a (hopefully) working XF86Config.
How about Xconfigurator? From what I hear it seems to run better than Xautoconfig. > i decided not to run it at each boot, but just to use the resulting > file as a good starting point. > > you can get Xautoconfig here: > > http://dev.linuxppc.org/~trini/ > > in order to get it to work correctly, i needed mouse and keyboard > configuration files. these don't (i believe) come with debian, so i > borrowed linuxppc's versions, and just put them in /etc/sysconfig. > see the attachments below for what mine are (for a blue-and-white g3). > > i also needed to patch Xautoconfig to use hard-coded font directories > rather than an X font server (which i don't use). that patch is also > included here. > > hope this helps you (and anyone else) out. Thanks, I'll give that a try! I guess I'll gave to go with the FB server, since no one here is running Xpmac, and I can't get it to recognize my fonts... Ciao, Renaud
