"W. Crowshaw" wrote: > > Since I could get X 3.3.6 running on my Debian 2.2.17 installed > PowerMac 7500 (4MB VRAM, 604e ),
What was the problem with 3.3.6? > I decided to try upgrading X to 4.0.1. I followed roughly the directions > given at http://linuxppc.org/documentation/xf4/. However, I have > encountered a number of problems. > > First and foremost, X doesn't come up. Either at system startup or > startx-ing, I get the follow message: [...] First of all, 4.0.1 is already rather old, 4.0.2 is waiting around the corner. The current Debian 4.0.1 X packages should work fine on PPC and follow the XFree86 development in CVS. Installing those packages might involve an upgrade to woody, but as you seem to build X yourself you could as well built the packages yourself. > Now I am pretty sure I edited the file /etc/X11/XF86Config correctly > following the new specifications. Yes, looks good. > The most important changed seems to be the BUSID in the "Device Section." > Running "cat /proc/pci", I got two BusID alternatives: either "PCI:0:11:0" > for Bandit or "PCI:0:16:0" for Grand. Alternating between both options > seems to make no difference. Have you tried without the bus ID? :) Please post the output of lspci. For graphics hardware which isn't visible as a standard PCI video device, the bus ID isn't necessary. Maybe it's even the problem in your case. > There are some further details as well. I have made > /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 my default X server in file /etc/X11/Xserver. > Building X4.0.1 did not produce an Xserver called XF68_FBDev. This is normal. There is now only one binary called XFree86 anymore which loads everything as modules. > My second problem with installed X 4.0.1 relates to xfs. Previously, > using X 3.3.6, the font server would always come up on startup, even > when X itself failed. With X 4.0.1, now xfs also fails. On startup I > get the following message: > "Starting X font server: xfs/usr/bin/X11/xfs: error in loading shared > libraries: libXfont.so./: cannot open shared object file: No such ^ I assume this should be a '1'? > file or directory" Have you installed the 4.x libraries and run ldconfig after that? > If you can provide me any information, I would greatly appreciate it. > I am almost going to give up on Debian and move to LinuxPPC because I > can get the Xserver 3.3.6 at least running on that install. Let's hope we can keep you on board... Michel -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project
