XFree86 on G4 "lamp" with 8.2/PPC
Has anyone gotten this to run? I just put 8.2/PPC on my G4 and I don't
recall if I did it before. I had to jump thru hoops to get it to
install with the text install, but when I did a startx as root I got the
grey X screen and it completely froze my system. I had to do a hard
reboot and got some very nasty fsck errors (at the moment I'm
reinstalling again).
It uses some Nvidia card (I didn't write down the specs when I examined
XF86Config-4 before doing a startx), but it looks like there are some
serious problems. I know there are nvidia drivers for x86, do I need
something similar for this PPC?
I don't *need* X on this machine as I'm primarily going to use it to
build packages for Club, but the downside is that without X, I won't be
able to test much of what I build.
Thanks for any info anyone can provide.
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