On Oct 19, 1:21 pm, Clark Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
> As Bruce said, the Twin Turbo doesn't work with X. Oy. Oh well. I did hope it would work because the initial OS X installer ran fine. > As to Linux have you tried having Xorg configure itself? If it isn't > running a shell after boot you need to put a "1" in as kernel parameter > to force it into a shell. Get the man page for Xorg and look for the > command line argument to self configure it. Then run Xorg with that > argument. > > If that doesn't do it then you will need to create or modify the Xorg > configuration file. A web search on this will give you a lot of help > (that's how I did it). > Yes, I tried having Xorg configure the card itself, but it just stuck on the internal ATI card. When I did an Xorg -probeonly it only saw the internal ATI, so I suspect if it can't see it, it can't use it. I did set up BootX to use the MSI driver, so I don;t think that's the issue. I found someone's xorg.conf file for the Twin Turbo, and tried using it, forcing Xorg to use the hardware by setting the BusID to the ID the MSI card had in lspci. Still no go, Xorg claimed it couldn't find a valid configuration and croaked (well, fell back into Ubuntu's "low graphics" mode, which is essentially the same thing since the screen remains blank). I eventually gave up on Linux and moved on to OS X, because all of the sources of info I found were saying that even if you got Xorg running with the IMS card, it would break if you looked at it funny. I'd prefer to hand off a more robust system to someone else. (That, and handing the system over to a Linux newbie would cause issues when they tried to install a kernel upgrade package, and thus cause BootX issues...) I need to get rid of the system soon... I'll look into getting the adapter, but if I can't get one in short order, I'll just have to reformat it using OS 9.1 and call it a day. Thanks for the help! Gary --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
