Yeah well, me again. Seems I'm the only one having trouble with PPC these days.
I got Xorg 7.1, fluxbox, and KDE installed. After creating an xorg.conf with Xorgautoconfig I quickly realized I indeed had the problem hinted at re: VGA BIOS. So I ~ppc64 keyworded xf86-video-ati and emerged version 6.6.3 which applies the patch that was also hinted at. The results are identical however. X starts and is running, as is fluxbox, but there is nothing on my screen. The only difference is that this time the power LED on my montor goes out when I start X, whereas before it stayed on. Also, there is a difference in Xorg.0.log: X now seems to think that I have a second CRT monitor attached!? (II) RADEON(0): Primary: Monitor -- TMDS Connector -- DVI-D DAC Type -- TVDAC/ExtDAC TMDS Type -- Internal DDC Type -- DVI_DDC (II) RADEON(0): Secondary: Monitor -- CRT Connector -- VGA DAC Type -- Primary TMDS Type -- External DDC Type -- VGA_DDC I have tried with the default xorg.conf that was generated, and I tried all manner of tweaks that I gleamed from gentoo-wiki, "man xorg.conf", and "man radeon". I have tried commenting and uncommenting individual "Options" from xorg.conf but the result is always the same. I have tried dropping down to 16 bit color depth and down to 1600x1024 resolution, with no joy. Can anyone even confirm that they have gotten an 23" cinema display and a radeon 9600 to work with Xorg? I would _really_ love to see your xorg.conf if you have. I don't know what else to say. There are no errors in my log (though there are some warnings). If you want/need further information just let me know... I have posted the log and my current conf file in my webspace: http://badcomputer.org/xorg.conf.txt http://badcomputer.org/xorg.log.txt xorg-x11-7.1 mesa-6.5-r3 xf86-video-ati-6.6.3 PowerMac G5 2x 2.0GHz Ati Radeon 9600 23" Apple Cinema Display I would appreciate any ideas. -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- [email protected] mailing list
