[ Please trim citations in your followups ] sloopy malibu wrote: > > on 11/12/01 9:31 AM using moldy cheese [EMAIL PROTECTED] engraved > this message > > > At 03:15 PM 11/12/01 +0100, Michel D�nzer wrote: > >> Mike Yukish wrote: > >> > >>> I tried BootX with "no video driver" forced, and then (from the > >>> LinuxPPC FAQomatic) tried the kernel arguments: > >>> > >>> video=controlfb:vmode:13,cmode:16 3 > >> > >> It's been a long time since I last used BootX, but these two > >> settings sound contradictory. Try not forcing "no video driver". > > > > Oops, I meant to say "I first tried checking 'no video driver', then > > I tried not checking 'no video driver' and passing kernel > > arguments." Neither case worked. > > mike, i run a 8500/150 which is similar to your 7600, and this is how > i got X to run on my machine... > > check 'no video driver' set machine in Mac OS to 832x624 or 1024x768 > at thousands of colors... (no kernel command line options...) then > boot into linux and go to XF86Config '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11' and go to > the section labeled 'screen' and make sure for 'modes' it says > "default" (with the double quotes) and for defaultcolordepth make sure > it says 16 and then in the subsection for displaymake sure there is an > entry for depth of 16...
Right, didn't think of Mode "default", that should also work 'with video driver'. > and it works fine... the only caveat i have is when in X and the > screen blanks out it will crash the X server and will go back to a > text console... That's probably a consequence of 'no video driver', I guess OFfb doesn't support the blank ioctl. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
