Subject: Re: ADC support
From: Joshua Gitlin (jnet@brandeis.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 20 2000 - 08:29:30 MDT
Trevor,
No, actually the problem was that I was passing the wrong
arg.s to teh kernel. The YDL manual says to pass
"video=aty128fb:vmode:12,cmode:24" to the kernel, but the ',' should
be a ':'. However now X won't load, complaining that the font 'fixed'
couldn't be loaded... any ideas?
>really joshua there telling me that there IS support for the VGA
>side of the card but not the ADC. when i have my VGA monitor to the
>card it sees it no problem, just no support for the ADC yet
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:jnet@brandeis.edu>Joshua Gitlin
>To:
><mailto:yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 10:00 AM
>Subject: Re: ADC support
>
>EXACTLY the problem I'm having, but with the VGA port on a dual G4.
>
> -Josh
>
>
>>i have a G4 Cube 450 with the clear Apple Studio Display 17", i
>>installed YDL on it, the 1.2.1 version, but when i run
>>Xconfigurator i don't get any video options at all it just detects
>>the card and that's it, in fact i can not boot into linux without
>>linux-novideo, which sticks me in 8bit resolution, which sucks.
>>I've completely started from scratch, formatted re-installed, still
>>i dont get any vid options.
>>
>
>
>anyone else run across this? i'm sure that it's the ADC plug,
>because when i use my normal VGA monitor its fine, i can just type
>linux and it boots up and it sees the monitor no problem, if i do it
>with the ADC monitor, typing linux yields me the booting..... then a
>blank screen. anyone done this on a cube, or a tower with the ADC
>connector, anyone have any ideas, i've tryed everything that i know
>of.?
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