X on a B&W g3 and a few install comments.

John.Matney@oberlin.edu
Sun, 09 May 1999 14:55:41 -0400

Hello,

I just spent a few hours the other day installing champion 1.0 on my blue
g3 350. First, Congratulations to the folks at yellowdog, I appreciated the
simple redhat-esque install interface and BootX is a blessing for those of
us that tried LinuxPPC about 2 years ago ;). The installation went fairly
smoothly with only one oriblem. I installed via ftp and during my first two
attempts on different mirrors (ppc.kernel.org & uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu) the
xfs package hung the install. I seemed to recieve the rpm just fine but the
instalation of it hung at ~80% complete. strange, no? I tried the
armageddon.ag.iastate.edu mirrior and everything went smoothly.

Now, getting X to work is a different story. I have read the archive (only
April is currently up) to see if there is any info on it. It seems that
there is, but Xconfigurator won't do the job. Correct? When i ran
Xconfigurator, it probes the card @ 5 or 7 megs of VRAM,depending on its
mood. I choose my monitor (ViewSonci g790) from that amazing list of
monitor profiles. To keep things simple i chose 1 resolution, 1600x1200 @
16bpp. Next, Xconfiguration tries to start X and it subsequently fails. I
poked around the XF86Config files and only broke it more.

My questions are:
        1) currently X can be run on a blue g3 using the frambuffer server,
correct?
        2)What am i doing wrong? If somebody has a XF*^Config file that they would
like to share with me, that would be great/
        3)Currently, I am checking No Video Driver in BootX and not passing any
parameters with the kernel, do i need to do this? If so could you enlighten
me, or point me to a site of enlightenment where the info can be found?
        4)Where can I get a realy yellowdog? ;)

Thanks for any replies in advance,

Cheers,

John Matney

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