On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi again, Bob. > > On Jun 02 2008, Bob Lounsbury wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On May 30 2008, Bob Lounsbury wrote: >> >> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg >> > >> > Thanks. "Been there, done that" before posting to the list (and before >> > even pointing Ubuntu to the problem, which was some time ago). >> >> Just to clarify (and sorry for insulting your intelligence), doing the >> dpkg does not correct your screen resolution problem. Right? > > Using dpkg-reconfigure does not correct the screen resolution. I have > already tried: > > * going back to kernel 2.6.8; > * using the same modeline that the console uses (via fbset -x) in the > xorg.conf file; > * setting and unsetting the flag to use the kernel framebuffer. > >> Or, it does correct the screen resolution, but you're trying to find >> the root cause of why it wasn't correct in the first place. > > No, I still can't get that right. I filed a bug on > xserver-xorg-video-ati and, luckily, Michel Dänzer replied. A new thread > has been created on <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > >> > The problem seems to be related with the r128 kernel and the ati driver >> > from X and some interrelation between them. :-( There's some bad >> > interaction there. :-( >> >> The dpkg worked for me on Debian Etch about 2 weeks ago to correct the >> screen resolution. If doing this on Debian Sid does not work, then I >> agree with you there is some problem with the newer r128 kernel and >> ati drivers. > > Which xserver are you using (version, I mean)? Since I still have no > important data on this machine, I can experiment a bit.
The default etch xserver, which is at 7.1.0-19. >> I've also installed or tried to install ... Gentoo, Arch, Fedora, >> Yellowdog, Ubuntu, openSUSE, Slackintosh and CentOS on this machine. > > In my case, I just want Debian. :-) > >> Older versions of Fedora (around 6 & 7) booted up perfectly with the >> correct screen resolution, but I just recently tried Fedora 9 and >> could not get it to work. > > Which machine do you have? The same iBook G3 combo, Late 2001 that I > have? In my case, I'm willing to go back as far as possible just to see > where the problem lies. Yeah, I think it's almost exactly the same model. >> CentOS which I assume is an older X also didn't work and gave me the >> typical 640x480 screen as you describe (it wasn't even big enough to >> see anything to install it. I currently have Debian, Gentoo, and Arch >> booting on this machine, but in every case I've had to copy my Debian >> xorg.conf for use with Gentoo and Arch. > > Right. BTW, isn't CentOS just an unbranded RedHat? Exactly. I just like to experiment :-}. >> I would say the only ones that didn't have a problem with screen >> resolution would be Fedora 6 & 7, Ubuntu, Yellowdog, and openSUSE. > > Nice to know, but which Ubuntu are you thinking about? At that time it would have been 6.06, but since they decided to drop the powerpc architecture then I dropped them :-}. >> Hope it gets figured out. Although I assume interest in these aging >> platforms is diminishing exponentially. > > As far as I am concerned, running new software on older hardware will be > supported. :-) > > For instance, my packages will be running on m68k as long as these > machines are available and I would even donate a PowerMac 9500/180MP > with a G3 upgrade card as a buildd, if that would help Debian. Porting > to more platforms just seems to expose bugs that wouldn't be noticed > otherwise (e.g., see the problems that hfsprogs had with support for 64 > bit platforms). I also didn't experience the same issues as Amit. Just yesterday I decided (don't ask me why) to try to upgrade from stable to unstable. I didn't have any problem with the upgrade from stable to testing, but something got borked in the upgrade to unstable. I'm definitely not as experienced as you are. Anyways, I didn't have any problem with X on either testing or unstable (unstable was very brief, since something didn't work ... I reinstalled stable and went through the same dpkg song and dance to get a full display). Cheers, /Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
