On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 11:23:43AM +0100, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > > 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, > > > > We copy-and-edit /usr/doc/xserver-common/examples/XF86Config.eg by hand, > > afetr > > reading the manpage for XF86Config. > > We have no xserver configure program in this release. A new xserver package > (in one > of the next days) will put an 'generic' XF86Config file into /etc/X11 for > fbdev. > > I hope we will have one for the next release, which shouldn't be far away > after this one. > > I think we have not fixed all bugs or features and other bad things, but we > have done > our best in the last two years (in our spare time). > > Debian migrates very slowly for end-user or the desktop-market useability, > but we do it > in the right way (TM) :-)
Err, ... the 3.3.6 server don't build out of the box, breaking when linking the xnest server (what do we need this for), but i have difficulties building it, because with my 570MB partition, i could not build it without erasing stuff whil compilation was working. I will provide a patch, or even a proper -1.1 package to have it compiling fine, but could someone do the actual build somewhere else. powerpc.debian.org seems unreachable this days. I will add also some patches provided to me by Kostas Gewrgiou, relative to dpms support and the kbdrate problem. I will try to provide a XF86Config installation stuff also, but until now i received a XF86Config file only for bronze powerbooks, if i remember well. Friendly, Sven LUTHER
