On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 11:22:17AM -0800, John Labovitz wrote: > 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
using mode "default" in your XF86Config will use your current framebuffer setting automatically. Friendly, Sven LUTHER
