On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 00:04, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > Hi XFree86 (and Debian X) people. I am in the process of porting PGI, > Progeny Linux Systems' X-based installer program for Debian, to PowerPC. > I have overcome several hurdles, except that on my iBook2, X refuses to do > any modeline processing or find a usable configuration in the installer > (running off of a CD with everything in /live also-known-as /usr > read-only but everything else in a read/write initrd). I have tested my > working config from my existing iBook2 Debian install in the installer, > and it failed the same way as the PGI config did. The reverse has also been > tested. > > I am attaching a working config and the corresponding X log, with -verbose > 3, as well as the equivalent with a PGI config. Again, as I said before, I > have tried the working config in the CD-based installer, and it has failed, > and another person who has the same hardware has tried the broken config on > his regular Debian setup, and it has worked.
Option "UseFBDev" only works with a 'real' framebuffer device. Does the working system use aty128fb but the installation system OFfb? -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
