Subject: Re: G4/450 AGP (sawtooth newgen) Mac OS 9.0.4
From: David Salinas (rdsalinas@home.com)
Date: Sat Jun 10 2000 - 10:14:54 MDT
David,
my graphics only comes up as 8 bit colors. I put that
append line in my conf file. But it still comes up as 8 bit.
I have a Hitachi 751 19" inch monitor. I'm sure that *this* is not
an uncommon monitor.
I run Xconfigurator and set it as Hitachi CM751 and then select
16 bit (1024x768). I've tried the other sizes too. Do my choices
have to match the setting that I entered in my yaboot.conf file?
Or can I select something different once I start Xconfigurator.
By they way, what does it look like when I startx in kde? Well,
split screens, all black screens, and other scary stuff!
Sincerely, R. David Salinas
David Haines wrote:
> I had pretty much the same experience. Make sure that you've got the
> yaboot.tbxi file and yaboot.conf file on/at the top level of your drive. I'm
> not sure, but I think need to have the vmlinux file there as well(vs. in the
> "Linux Kernels" folder in the System Folder, as req'd for BootX).
> You can actually rename "yaboot.tbxi" to "yaboot" and then you only need
> to type "boot hd:8,yaboot" (in your case) - works for me, and is just a
> little less of a hassle.
> Now (!) when you get into linux, you might be unhappy with the graphics,
> I was. Try this for your "yaboot.conf" file, NB the last line :
>
> timeout = 5
> default = linux
>
> image = hd:8,\vmlinux
> label = linux
> root = /dev/hda10
> append="video=aty128fb:vmode:17,cmode:24"
>
> I had a problem if the "label" and "root" lines were indented, couldn't
> boot successfully.
>
> Make the above change & then boot into linux, run Xconfigurator and when
> that's finished, type "startx" in a terminal window and enjoy (!)
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