Hi Winther, does 'lspci' yield anything useful on your machine? On my machine (not a powermac!), I obtain something like:
<snip/> 00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 RE <snip/> (You should get something corresponding to you video card.) The "00:10.0" corresponds to what is asked by the debian install script, *except* that it is hexadecimal, and XF86Config wants it decimal. (So for my configuration, I had to tell "PCI:0:16:0" to Debian.) You can also look at your log files (/var/log/XFree86.0.log, or if you use gdm /var/log/gdm/\:0.log (this is probably different with kdm or xdm)), to see if you get more instructive messages. I'm afraid this won't directly solve your problems, but maybe it'll bring you a step further. Regards Francois On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 18:00, Winther wrote: > Hi there. > > Uphill all the way - > > Now got the Powermac working, but I have problems getting X-server up and > running. > > I had same kind of problem some time ago during an installation on an i386. > At that time it was enough to make the memory of the graficcard (sorry) > available in the XF86Config-4 file. > > Debian wanted to know the bus-address for the card during setup. Something in > this form > PCI: nn : nn : nn > > Anybody who knows the numbers. www.apple.com don't ! > > On boot I get interesting messages like: > No screens found. Fatal server error (send the marines) > > > But for the request. If you have a powermac 6400/200 which is running > x-server in a stunning fasion without quirks > I would like to have a copy of the XF86Config-4 file. > Found at /etc/X11/ > > What a day > Greetings > Bjarne -- Francois Taiani +33 (0) 5 6133 6406 LAAS-CNRS (http://www.laas.fr) Dependable Computing http://www.laas.fr/~ftaiani and Fault Tolerance
