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

[Yves Combe]

Pete Giovagnoli a écrit :
> 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:"
???
This is a problem with lspci. The BusID line is normally given by a 
processing of lspci output.

Can you send me the output of lspci AND lspci -n please?

> 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?
Yes
Without the ChipID thah does not work? maybe hwdata and pci.ids needs an 
update...

> 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.
Yes.
Please have a try removing BusID and ChipID line.


> Hope this helps. Thank you and waiting for pre11!
Soon, when you send me lspci output. I can't leave this BusID incomplete ..

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Yves Combe
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