On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 10:44:59PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 21:55, Chris Tillman wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 01:31:33PM -0400, Tara Piorkowski wrote: > > > I have woody installed on my 266MHz iMac and it's running great, except > > > that I cannot for the life of me get XFree86 properly configured. I have > > > done tons of reading and a fair amount of playing (dpkg-reconfigure, > > > trying to compile Xautocfg, looking for precompleted files, etc.) but > > > cannot get it to work. The two main problems seem to be using the USB > > > mouse and finding out the appropriate HorizSync range (VertRefresh seems > > > to be 74-117). I had it running on SuSE PPC 7.1 using SAX2 but, alas, > > > wiped the drive without copying the configuration file. > > > > > > Anyway, I'd be most appreciative if someone could point me in the right > > > direction for getting this configured. I'm very anxious to run woody on > > > that old iMac. > > > > > > > I just submitted a bug to xserver-xfree86 regarding this. The xserver's > > calculations seem to be at odds with the iMac's philosophy. > > Well, somehow I don't see Branden adding special default values for any > existing hardware... wouldn't a note about this in the installation docs > or somewhere do?
Good idea, I'll put that in. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
