Subject: Re: Has anyone got X to work on an AGP G4
From: Jay Thor Turner (turner@drea.dnd.ca)
Date: Fri Jul 28 2000 - 05:40:53 MDT
Philip Brodd wrote:
>
> [I do have my own question at the end, if any gurus are reading this.]
>
> I've been using XFree86 4.0 for about a week on my AGP G4/450 with
> Champion Server 1.2. I recommend using the RPMs found at
>
> <ftp://devel.linuxppc.org/users/howarth/xf4>
>
> Installation was a snap. Just read the file README.FIRST in that
> directory. The only stickiness involved enabling resolutions other than
> 1024x768. The default XF86Config file provided at the URL above for the
> Rage 128 stops there. But I found a very easy solution in this message
> from the linuxppc-user list archives:
>
> <http://lists.linuxppc.org/listarcs/linuxppc-user/200004/msg02026.html>
>
> This was all I needed to get me running happily at 1280x1024. My only
> question is whether or not I'm operating at the capacity of my monitor.
> I have a ViewSonic P815 that can do 1280x1024 at 106 Hz, but the modes
> used by the vmode command seem to be limited to 75 Hz. Is there a way to
> tell what my current refresh rate is, and increase it if it's really only
> at 75 Hz?
>
> Phil Brodd
>
> > On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Mike Tuller wrote:
>
> > We would like to use our G4 as our Linux server, replacing an AMD-K6, but we
> > can't get X to work. We have followed every suggestion on every list-serve
> > we could find, and X still doesn't work. We are using yaboot, which is
> > lacking any type of documentation, and I know that I saw about 5 different
> > ways to set that, which of course none of them worked. We used Xautoconfig,
> > and were able to get 640x480, but that is a real waste on a G4.
> >
> > If anyone has had luck getting this going, please let me know how you did it
> > so that we can get ours working.
> >
> > Mike Tuller
Check out this manual, I think it is what you are looking for:
http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/XFree86-Video-Timings-HOWTO.html
Jay Thor
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