On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 10:28:12PM -0400, Vivek Balasubramanyam wrote:
> I'm using a PowerBook firewire, and I just tried running Xpmac. It didn't
> seem to do much in the way of accerelation, but it did give me 3-button mouse
> emulation. One side-effect (and I'm not sure if this is caused by Xpmac) is
> that xdm has apparently lost the authority to connect a user to the X server.
> So basically, the only way I can run the server is by killing xdm, logging
> in as root, and running startx with root permissions. So if you haven't
> installed Xpmac yet, you might want to hold off. When I fix my problems,
> I'll post again.
>
> The one graphical advantage I got was the ability to use 24-bit colour.
> XF86_FBDev only gave me 16.
Erm, ...
The powerbook firewire, isn't it the one with a mobile rage128 also called
prismo (sort of) or the tokyo released powerbook ?
Does linux run fine on this ?
Alas, i don't know if Xfree 3.3.6 is actually supporting the rage128, there
were talks of back porting support for it from the 3.9/4.0 xfree tree, but i
don't know what happened to it.
What you could try, is to build 4.0, which should work ok. To not have it mess
with stantard debian installs do the following :
* download the 4.0 -1 archive, no need to get the fonts and docs, since you
will not use them
* unpack them and do the following changes to the config/cf dir :
- change the root dir to be /usr/X11R6.4
- change the config file to be XF86Config.4
- build only the server.
the attached patch against 4.0 should take care of that.
* then go into the xc dir and do :
- make World &> world.log &
- tail -f world.log
- make install &> install.log &
- tail -f install.log
- make install.man &> man.log &
- tail -f man.log
this should take you between 30min to 60min, i guess, it took me ~4hours
on my apus box (603e @240MHz, no cache) and ~1 hour on my k6-2 500Mhz
system.
once that is done, you need to generate a XF86Config.4 (there should be an
example in /usr/X11R6.4/lib/X11 or something such) and change
/etc/X11/Xserver to point to /usr/X11R6.4/bin/Xfree86 instead of
/usr/bin/X11/XF86_FBDev.
Friendly,
Sven LUTHER
