Re: [XonX-Users] Re: X11 and opendarwin 7.2.1 ppc and gd 1.1 and no luck

[Patrik M. <pa...@ch...>]

On 04-09-18 18.56, Yves de Champlain (yv...@gn...) wrote:

>> Incidentally, I tried running startx then sleeping and killing X, and
>> the result is that the mouse cursor goes away, but the screen stays
>> grey.
>> 
>> it says screen :0 added, then discarding screen :1, then it says
>> invalid hieght and width
>> 
>> Maybe the problem is related to me having an ATI Radeon 8500. I had an
>> ATI driver installed under OS X Jaguar, and X11 has worked on Jaguar
>> and continues to work under Panther. I wonder if I need to get an ati
>> driver installed into opendarwin somehow in order for X to work.
> 
> Here is the output I had which was very similar, except that I got a
> black screen
> covering everything except the cursor and that it happened only if I
> had an OpenFirmware
> screen during boot (including with the <alt> key)
> 
> Operating System: Darwin Apple Computer, Inc.
> Using keymapping provided in /System/Library/Keyboards/USA.keymapping.
> Display mode: IOKit
> Screen 0 added: 1440x900 @ (0,0)
> Discarding screen 1:
> Invalid width or height.

The problem is that the monitor resolution it finds is not among the
defaults it accepts at first. Try setting it to 1024*768 and see if you can
get the server to boot that way. That done, see if you can get the program
xf86cfg to run - I don't remember if it's installed by default or if you
have to find it somewhere. If you can get the program to run, you can use it
to add other accepted resolutions (modelines).

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Patrik Montgomery // pa...@ch...