[K-mib-ppc] pre10 on iMac G3 350; got X working

[Pete Giovagnoli]

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 in OS X.) 
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