[K-mib-ppc] pre 10 testing on iMac

[Hard Mac]

Hi Yves,


Here's some info from a user over at Knoppix.net forums that I thought you 
might be interested in.

I haven't had much time to try the last tests that we wrote about with pre10 
but should be able to do them soon.


Cheers,
Thomas

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http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=35487#35487
        
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 11:50 pm         
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Using Knoppix-MiB-ppc pre10: 

I got X to come up on my 350mhz iMac (I believe it's a Blueberry, probably the 
educational bottom-end model at the time.) Boots fine, autodetection seems to 
work fine, but startx fails with a line like: 
" no device at PCI:0:16:0" 

Doing a search, this seems like a common problem with the ATi Rage128. 

I had to edit the XF86Config-4 file Device section to get X to appear. 
The section ends with: 

BusID ="PCI:" 

I changed it to 

BusID ="PCI:0:16:0" 
ChipID = 0x524c 

(0x524c being the chip ID reported by Apple System Profiler.) After this, 
startx brings up the X background and the "no xsession" error, which I believe 
is the correct behavior for this small (157M) version? 

Would this indicate some kind of error writing the XF86Config file during 
autodetection? The console prints quite a few messages during boot explicitly 
identifying the graphics chip, so Knoppix-MiB-PPC must be getting that part 
right. 

Hope this helps. Thank you and waiting for pre11! 

Pete Giovagnoli


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