On 2007 Mar 29 (Thu) at 13:52:02 -0400 (-0400), marius wrote: :Hi guys, : :I know there are several iBook users on this list so I thought I'd ask :here first before going to the ppc@ list. : :I have G3 600Mhz iBook (i.e. PowerBook4,3 , full dmesg at end of :message), running the March 26th snapshot. When I start X, the screen :goes blank and the machine locks. X does appear to start (there are :several X processes running in ps, like xterm and xclock (I don't have :the ps output handy right now)) but the screen is blank and the :keyboard unresponsive. I am still able to SSH into it from another :machine, and can kill the xinit process, which gets me back to the :commandline with a screen full of lines that I have to clear. ... :- there are quite a few messages like the one below, for all the :possible screen resolutions: :(II) RADEON(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (hsync out of range) : :- this is the last message in the log file while X is running: :(**) RADEON(0): RADEONSaveScreen(2) : :Thanks, Marius : :PS. I'm only subscribed to the daily digest, so please CC me on your response.
I was getting the above messages on my macppc laptop when I had forgotten to switch on 'machdep.allowaperture=2'. Uncomment that line in your /etc/sysctl.conf, then restart. The details (and caveats) are explained in the xf86(4) man page. -- People will buy anything that's one to a customer. _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
