quick response my console video was fine *until* i had spent like a month fooling with the X font system, trying to understand that, since my problem seems to only effect fonts i thought it was there for a long time. then i suspected unicode and i played with that. any the upshot is i have, despite trying to put all back like it was
i have some punctuation that appears as little solid squares instead - hyphenation, quotation, etc. its mostly annoying problem. orginally it was fine, anyway. ------- i regards to ims there are changes from last year upstream which are in xorg7 now, so i have been planning to try that in a while. looks like formerly it was pretty well " builtin " but a separate X driver now in Xorg. there was a multiyear delay there. (seemed that that happened with the chips a while back too was half broken for a long time - so if your buddy has an older release tell him to upgrade !) i am downloading netinstall of etch now, see how it boots there later. didn't have before i just did in place upgrade from sarge. --- Simon Stapleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 17 Jul 2006, at 07:51, brian wrote: > > > on my powerbook3400 where i just got quik going, > > i just double checked -- i have no video options > set at all. > > Interesting. A friend of mine has an "original" > (3400-based) G3, and > is having video issues. I'll get him to try this. > > > > i do have apparently though some video driver > problem, > > that is no better or worse in quik or bootx. the > pb3400 has > > chips tho not ati, but keep reading. > > Issues in X only, or do you get the same in console > mode? If your > console is running OK, I'd suggest the issue is > probably to do with X. > > > worried about my disk, i did finally manage to > backup my debian > > sarge off the 3400 and copy it to my beige g3 and > am up and running > > there, more or less, with bootx. the one video > problem i had > > with chips disappears but there are some other > minor problems, > > It would do, the built-in video on the beige G3s is > ati :) > > > i am still working with the xf86config. besides > the ati there i also > > have an ixmicro16MB card which i am studying how > to get going. > > (no luck yet). i have seen people suggest options > like you are > > discussing but i have no idea what the various > flags there represent, > > may be out of date, i don't wish to burn up > something !! > > > Hrm. This might be a useful link, > http://www.jonh.net/lppcfom-serve/ > cache/1043.html > > The definitive list of arguments are, of course, > found in the source > for the relevant driver. The above suggests a good > combination for > the 3400 would be "video=chipsfb:vmode:10,cmode:16" > which _should_ > give you 16 bits per pixel at 800x600. I think the > mclk option often > quoted for wallstreets is ati-specific. > > For the ixmicro card, it's all a question of what > card model it is > and what chipset it has. > ${LINUX_SRC_ROOT}/drivers/video is where > you'll find the source, for example the twin turbo > driver is > imsttfb.c in that directory (looking there, it seems > that it probably > supports vmode and cmode as described above, and not > much else) > > Simon > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
