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 Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 2:40 am Post subject: Xorg on G3 lombard, white screen |
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Hi.
Ive battled for the past two weeks getting gentoo to run on my G3 Lombard
Finally got all the packages i want installed, i just need to configure X. I first tried Xautoconfig, which used "fbdev" as my video driver. This didnt work, so i tried switching it to "ati". Doing this produces an all white screen, which i am unable to CRTL+ALT+BCKSPC out of. It would be nice if someone out there with a running lombard could post their Xorg.conf. I will post mine if you think it is necessary.
Thanks
PS. Anyone know had problems/solutions to the system being unable to find/use the hardware clock? What about sluggish keyboards (like occasional lag between typing) ?
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 5:47 am Post subject: |
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yeah, tried Xautoconfig, as stated in the post, the generated config file doesnt work, probably because it uses the fbdev driver. the laptop has an ati mach 64 i believe (ive tried the ati driver with the ChipSet "mach64" ), all configs so far either don't work or give me just a solid white screen, no mouse no nothing.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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| xORGautoconfig , not xautoconfig, both are in portage. |
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 9:29 pm Post subject: Xorgautoconfig doesnt fix it |
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Xorgautoconfig doent solve the problem. It produces an xorg.conf almost exactly identical to the one generated by Xautoconfig (video driver "fbdev"). Substituting the drivers r128, radeon, or ati produces only the white screen i discussed before.
What would really be a big help is if someone who has a g3 lombard running X could post their config.
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While we're still waiting for a G3 lombard user to show up, what framebuffer driver are you using? You should be using the Mach64 one.
What video depth do you have it set to? How about the display resolution?
My Mach64 mac will only work at 15bit color.
Can you provide the information from Xorgautoconfig --dump?
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:01 pm Post subject: Xorgautoconfig --dump |
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Dumping Debugging Information:
Machine ID: Powerbook1,1
No EDID Information present
H-Min: 0 H-Max: 0 V-Min: 0 V-Max: 0
Card Dump:
Framebuffer Id: OFfb ATY,264LTP
Framebuffer Type: 0
Framebuffer Depth 15
Hope that helps. In the meantime, ill trying setting the color depth to 15 in my xorgconfig
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| Quote: | | Framebuffer Id: OFfb ATY,264LTP |
The OFfb means that you're using the openfirmware framebuffer. Please try the Mach64 one instead by passing video=atyfb to your kernel on boot.
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| Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 8:46 pm Post subject: that did the trick |
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that solved the problem (had to disable offb in the kernel as well). you rock!!!
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