Re: Bug#415543: xorg: xserver crashes on beige G3 PowerMac

2007-05-22 Thread Wakko Warner
Brice Goglin wrote: Could somebody have a look at bug #415543? Rob has a strange problem on his PowerMac. Basically, Xorg and network cannot work at the same time. I suspect a hardware or kernel problem, but I am not familiar enough with powerpc to debug further. Help would be appreciated. I

Re: Flickering screen on a cinema display.

2007-05-01 Thread Wakko Warner
Charles Plessy wrote: Thanks for the hint. I added the following line in xorg.conf: ModeLine1920x1200 138 1920 2048 2256 2592 1200 1201 1204 1242 Howerver, I can not go lower than 138 (it freezes the system), and it is still too high to solve the problem. I also added:

Re: Flickering screen on a cinema display.

2007-04-28 Thread Wakko Warner
Charles Plessy wrote: Le Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 10:22:21PM -0400, Wakko Warner a ?crit : Yes, I had this with a radeon 9200 on a PC and a 1600x1200 LCD connected via DVI (Did not occur with VGA). I had to tell xorg to ignore edid and I modified each mode line's dot clock to the absolute

Re: Flickering screen on a cinema display.

2007-04-27 Thread Wakko Warner
Charles Plessy wrote: I have just installed Etch on a powermac7,3 with a cinema display, but very unfortunately, the screen flickers, making it difficult to work with the computer. I have found a hint on the fglrx page (http://www.stanchina.net/~flavio/debian/fglrx-installer.html): it seems

Re: Problems with Dial-up on Old World Mac

2006-10-26 Thread Wakko Warner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the string I used on a 56k sportster at work: ATFC1D2S11=50B1 I believe B1 is the part that makes it work for me. S11=50 makes the modem dial as fast as it can. You may not want this especially if your phone co can't handle it. You should verify

Re: Problems with Dial-up on Old World Mac

2006-10-25 Thread Wakko Warner
Jeffrey Rolland wrote: Hello, all! I have a Power Macintosh 7500 running Debian Sarge. I have a US Robotics 56.6K modem. When I try to dial up, Debian gets the modem to dial, and the modem negotiates a connection, but then the remote computer can't hear anything Debian says, and

Re: Problems with Dial-up on Old World Mac

2006-10-25 Thread Wakko Warner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this USR is a sportster, that is an init string that you need to give it or you will run into problems like this. I don't remember what it was off the top of my head, but it is the modem (according to past experiences with USR modems) It is indeed a

Re: Xorg 7.0.0 failing on powermac G3

2006-10-15 Thread Wakko Warner
Sorry for the long delay. I have not touched the mac until today. Also, noone else on the powerpc list responded. brian wrote: hi, i also have a beige currently running sarge/2.6.8-3/Xfree4.3 -- procrastinating on the upgrade although i have already done on two other ppc/macs (one old w.

Xorg 7.0.0 failing on powermac G3

2006-09-24 Thread Wakko Warner
I am not subscribed to this list, please always CC me. X worked on this machine until I added an ethernet card. Seems X wants to use the I/O ports for the ethernet card and not for the ATI card. I don't have the Xorg log for when it worked. Apparently, it does not matter which type of ethernet