Re: iMac DV Questions


Subject: Re: iMac DV Questions
From: M.A.M. van Steensel (mvanstee@baserv.uci.kun.nl)
Date: Tue May 16 2000 - 14:17:55 MDT


On 16-05-2000 at 11:56, jmassung@magpiesystems.com (Jeff Massung) wrote:

> Well, after a wonder, intimate night alone with my iMac DV, at 4am I got
> CS1.2 working =).
>
> I've got 2 problems (so far) though, and am looking for a little help :).
> I've searched through the lists archives, and can't seem to find an answer.
> So here it goes:
>
> 1. After getting past yaboot, the system boots just fine and runs, but there
> are orange, vertical lines down the right edge of the monitor (coming in for
> about an inch). Anyone know how to fix this?
>
> 2. X just won't seem to start. I've only run Xconfig from inside the
> installer, so maybe I need to do it outside the installer? I've done this
> plenty of times on x86's, but this is my first PPC install. Is there a good
> site to tell me things to look out for?
>
> Thanks. Oooh, one last thing:
>
> >From reading through the archives, it appears as though PPP through ethernet
> has some problems? I have a T1, and was wondering if I need to do anything
> specific (before I start hitting pitfalls) to set it up?
>
> - Jeff Massung (jmassung@magpiesystems.com)
> - Programmer for Magpie Systems (http://www.magpiesystems.com)
> - Bringing smart pigs and data analysis to the pipeline industry!
>
See the thread by, among others, me in the linuxppc-user mailing list of April
2000. IMHO though, if you want to do heavy Linuxing, you should get a G4. I did
and it rocks the socks off any PC.

Maurice



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