Subject: RE: Fatal server error: No valid modes found
From: Pete Peters (ppeters@broadcastzone.com)
Date: Tue Aug 29 2000 - 14:31:22 MDT
Okay, Google-searching for Xpmac found a lot of dead ends. I finally found
Xpmac.rev10.gz at:
<ftp://ftp.sunsite.utk.edu/pub/linux/suse/projects/powerpc/xpmac/>
Another site, as listed on Neil Jolly's X for the Power PC page
<http://members.home.com/njolly/xppc/faq.html> is:
<http://download.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/suse/projects/xpmac/>
I also discovered more posts in various lists and Neil's site, but many
specifics are missing. So, more questions:
a) Does XFree86 3.3.6 support Rage128?
b) Does XFree86 3.3.6 support 24 bit?
c) If the answer to a) or b) is NO, then why isn't the Xpmac package
included in the YDL distro? And if Xpmac is so useful, why is it so hard to
find?
d) I found several references, including KevinH's Xpmac ReadMe, to "use
BenH's kernal if you have a Rage128 card" w/ Xpmac. No info to what this
modified kernal is or where to get it other than "Ben's site." I have a Rage
Orion 128. Ben who? How about a url? Or is this info still relevant?
e) There was a New Xpmac announcement (in April 2000?) from Kevin B.
Hendricks that said the Xpmac rev 10 binary and source tars were available
at http://khendricks.ivey.uwo.ca/Xpmac/, but that's a dead link. Kevin?
<Soapbox>
This may be an interesting process for us geeks, but Linux will NEVER be
mainstream as long it requires these scavenger hunts.
</Soapbox>
TIA.
Pete
"Look there, Professor, up ahead. Light!"
from Journey to the Center of the Earth
-----Original Message-----
From: Moonglue@141.com [mailto:Moonglue@141.com]
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 4:19 PM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Subject: Re: Fatal server error: No valid modes found
Use Xpmac
I use rev10
I'm not sure where to get it, try a search on google.
You don't need netscape, use lynx- the console browser (txt only)
Its fast, easy to use, and works very well.
If need be and you can't find it, I can put it up for ftp from my box.
>Just installed YDL 1.2. Whoever tweaked those install screens deserves a
day
>off and a six-pack of their favorite beverage, lol. Only one gotcha, and
the
>answer was in the list archives. This was especially nice after fighting
>LinuxPPC for a week, and no help from their list.
>
>Anyway, unable to startx. It runs thru screenloads of
>
>(--) FBDev: Mode <it lists the mode here> needs vert fresh rate of <it
lists
>a refesh rate here>. Deleted
>
>Finishing with
>
>(**) FontPath set to "unix/:-1"
>(**) FBDev: Using XF86Config video mode database
>
>Fatal server error:
>No valid modes found.
>
>I found one (3) message thread (from late 1999) on this that suggested
>changing the Virtual entry in XF86Config to "defaults", but that didn't
>help. There was also a reference to Neil Jolly's "X for the Linux on the
>Power PC", but that wasn't helpful either. It did mention trying Xpmac if
>XFree86 didn't work, but there's only one HTTP link to get it (from SuSE),
>which doesn't help since I can't get Netscrape running since X isn't
>running.
>
>I also found a couple threads (early 2000) about a newer Xpmac, and there
>was one regarding a newer XFree86 that's supposed to replace the existing
>Xpmac.
>
>So, can anyone offer this newbie some help?
>Should I be using XFree86 or Xpmac?
>If so, what version, where is it (by ftp), and how-to install would be
>appreciated.
>
>Extra info that may or may not be relevant:
>PPC 9500 w/ PowerLogix G3 card
>128 MB ram
>Mac OS 8.6
>(2) 2 GB SCSI hard drives: sda (HFS)->MacOS, sdb (/ and swap)->YDL
>ATI Rage Orion 128 w/ 16 MB ram
>Apple Multiple Scan 17 Display
>BootX v1.2.2 w/ No Video Display unchecked and no extra kernal parameters
>
>Please reply to my email as well as the list. Thank you.
>
>Pete
>ppeters@broadcastzone.com
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