Subject: Re: iBook2001
From: Romain Kang (romain@kzsu.stanford.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 30 2001 - 10:34:33 MST
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 09:52:34AM -0700, Geoff W wrote:
> When the
> GUI starts, I can see a sliver of the desktop off to the left edge of
> the screen, and the rest of the screen is filled with solid blocks of
> colors.
It sounds like you may have a bad XF86Config. Below is what I use in my 500 MHz
iceBook. It goes in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. You may have to fiddle with some of
the options, since I've messed with some of the X11/video support in my kernel.
Romain Kang Disclaimer: I speak for myself alone,
romain@kzsu.stanford.edu except when indicated otherwise.
--- You could cut here, but it might hurt your screen ---
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
# The location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (which are concatenated together),
# as well as specifying multiple comma-separated entries in one FontPath
# command (or a combination of both methods)
FontPath "unix/:7100"
#FontPath "unix/:-1"
# If X can't find it's default font, try uncommenting these:
#FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
#FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
#FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
#FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
#FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
#FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
#FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
#FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
#FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
# ModulePath can be used to set a search path for the X server modules.
# The default path is shown here.
# ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "GLcore"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "pex5"
Load "record"
Load "xie"
Load "bitmap"
Load "type1"
Load "speedo"
Load "freetype"
Load "dri"
# Uncomment for Video4Linux support
#Load "v4l"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
# Uncomment this if your keyboard no longer works in X and you belive you are
# using the depreciated adb keycodes
#Option "CustomKeycodes"
#Option "XkbModel" "macintosh_old"
#Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
#Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
UseModes "Modes0"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 30-70
VertRefresh 50-160
EndSection
Section "Modes"
Identifier "Modes0"
# Apple iMac modes
Modeline "1024x768" 78.525 1024 1049 1145 1312 768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync
Modeline "800x600" 62.357 800 821 901 1040 600 601 604 632 +hsync +vsync
Modeline "640x480" 49.886 640 661 725 832 480 481 484 514 +hsync +vsync
# Apple monitors tend to do 832x624
Modeline "832x624" 57 832 876 940 1152 624 625 628 667 -hsync -vsync
# Apple PowerBook G3
Modeline "800x600" 100 800 816 824 840 600 616 624 640 -hsync -vsync
# Generated
# D: 100.000 MHz, H: 93.985 kHz, V: 116.318 Hz
Modeline "1024x768" 100.000 1024 1040 1048 1064 768 784 792 808 -HSync -VSync
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
#Option "ShadowFB" "true"
#
#Option "fbdev" "/dev/fb0"
#Driver "fbdev"
#
Option "UseFBDev"
Driver "r128"
Chipset "ATI Rage 128 Mobility LE (PCI)"
VendorName "ATI"
BusID "PCI:0:16:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
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