On Dec 25, 2005, at 9:33 PM, Olaf Olson wrote:
Jeff,
Two key things.
1. When you measure in inches and enter the values, you MUST click the
units button and set it to inches EVEN IF IT SAYS INCHES when you
entered the number. As I recall, inches is the default, but it will
still default to something else, regardless. If you don't do this,
OpenOffice will open all documents such that you might get to see an
entire word on your screen, instead of the entire document. In
addition, all of the automatic viewing of file contents will fail,
viewing postscript or PDF files from the file browser, for example.
I'll remember that;
2. To get back to the old settings. log in via a shell login, rather
than a graphics login, and restore the automatic backup that YDL made
when you changed the settings. This file is
/etc/X11/XF86Config.backup. Restore it by renaming XF86Config and then
renaming the backup file to XF86Config. This should get you back to
something that works.
The first time I tried this, but I didn't realize at the time the key
combination for terminal mode was ctrl+option+F1, (I was trying
command+control+F1, like PC Linux). So I ssh'd into
the machine from my G4 mac and did the name swap routine but it didn't
seem to make a difference. I probably got something wrong.
I have found that the preselect configurations (choose the monitor,
video card, etc.) never gave me very good results. It worked better
for me to choose what I knew the monitor and graphics could do. I have
an 8500, which is similar enough that it might work. I booted into OS9
and looked at the monitor settings there, to get the exact values that
the Mac figured out would work. I then went back to YDL and set the
values exactly, and adjusted the monitor size as explained above. You
may actually have to edit the XF86Config file to add the display mode.
Mine now looks something like this (ignore the ATI Rage 128 setting
for the Device. My 8500 is offline until I can locate a new hard
drive, as the original died after 10 years of near-continuous
operation):
I want to run MIDI software, specifically, Rosegarden on my 7200 so I
really don't need Photoshop quality display but something better than 8
bit seems reasonable.
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "ATI Rage 128"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
Best of luck! YDL brings life to old hardware.
Olaf
Thank you for the info
Jeff K.
je killen wrote:
I installed Yellow dog v3.0 on a Mac 7200/120 and it worked with
graphics card 'generic of compatible' and display as generic unknown.
I went to the system preferences app and found my monitor in the list
I.E. Apple 1710 and chose that. I have video RAM installed in the
computer but I don't have record of what size and the chips
themselves don't say explicitly. I
also tried to configure the DPI (by follwoing the instructions and
measuring the monitor and entering the height and width in inches. I
know the monitor and system is capable of thousands of colors, so I
told it to do thousands of colors at 800x600.
When I logged out of the session and logged back in the video was
missing a color and blotched with jagged, low resolution. I rebooted
and tried to uncheck the no video driver option in Bootx. With that
setting the server won't even run. Back to reboot and let it finish
booting into Mac OS before trying Linux again. This time the X server
only uses half the screen and is missing colors, grossly missing
colors. It is illegible enough not to be able to use it to change the
configuration. I switched to a console to use the system. FreeBSD has
a configuration script called xf86config that is run from the command
line to configure X. Is there a similar script on Yellow Dog? (none
was found by that name with find) Or do I have to re-install the
system? (as I already have had to for the same problems the first
time, last week end).
Thanks
Jeff K
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Another item of interest:
WHEN RUNNING YELLOW DOG V3.0 ON A POWERBOOK 3400C/180, DO NOT HIT THE
POWER KEY.
THE DISPLAY GOES INTO STANDBY MODE AND WHEN I BROUGHT IT BACK UP IT
WAS WALL
TO WALL FROZEN GARBAGE. THE POWER KEY IS RIGHT ABOVE THE DELETE KEY.
I FOUND
OUT THIS TRAP WHEN I WAS IN A VI EDITING SESSION AND HIT THE POWER
KEY INSTEAD OF
THE DELETE KEY.
I hope this is or will be helpful to anyone about to embark on a
similar adventure with a 3400c.
(perhaps this problem has been fixed, I don't know at this point).
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