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There is an ebuild Xorgautoconfig specifically for this purpose. The
generated xorg.conf needs some slight adjustments but seems to give good
results.
On Thursday 04 May 2006 7:34 am, Mark M. Hart wrote:
> I have a beige G3 desktop 233mhz with 512M ram that has an ATI chipset on
> the motherboard and an ATI chipset in a PCI VGA card (which the monitor is
> attached to). When I use xorgconfig I have to use fbdev as the ati choice
> will not work on testing. This gives me a 1280x1024 screen which works
> well on a 17” monitor, but the colors are all wrong.
>
>
>
> When I use Xorg –configure I get a working configuration with the ati
> driver, but the screen is (maybe) 640x480 and that’s it. I’ve tried
> merging the two files in every combination I can think of, and am not
> getting anywhere.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!
>
>
>
> Mark M. Hart

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I'm new at this, and I don't know about ebuild yet. Can you give me a hint
about what I should do to get the Xorgautoconfig built?

Thanks!

Mark M. Hart
markmhart@gmail.com

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From: David Gurvich [mailto:david.gurvich@verizon.net]
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 4:59 AM
To: gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] ATI configuration?

There is an ebuild Xorgautoconfig specifically for this purpose. The
generated xorg.conf needs some slight adjustments but seems to give good
results.
On Thursday 04 May 2006 7:34 am, Mark M. Hart wrote:
> I have a beige G3 desktop 233mhz with 512M ram that has an ATI chipset on
> the motherboard and an ATI chipset in a PCI VGA card (which the monitor is
> attached to). When I use xorgconfig I have to use fbdev as the ati choice
> will not work on testing. This gives me a 1280x1024 screen which works
> well on a 17” monitor, but the colors are all wrong.
>
>
>
> When I use Xorg –configure I get a working configuration with the ati
> driver, but the screen is (maybe) 640x480 and that’s it. I’ve tried
> merging the two files in every combination I can think of, and am not
> getting anywhere.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!
>
>
>
> Mark M. Hart

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I just did an emerge on Xorgautoconfig and ran the command, but the
xorg.conf file it makes doesn't work - it tells me that ATI(0) Adapter has
not been initialized, and Screen(s) found, but none have a usable
configuration.

It sets Mode 1024x768 at several depths, which I can live with, and default
mode of 16, which I can also live with. Now if I could just get it to work
...

Thanks!

Mark M. Hart

-----Original Message-----
From: David Gurvich [mailto:david.gurvich@verizon.net]
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 4:59 AM
To: gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] ATI configuration?

There is an ebuild Xorgautoconfig specifically for this purpose. The
generated xorg.conf needs some slight adjustments but seems to give good
results.
On Thursday 04 May 2006 7:34 am, Mark M. Hart wrote:
> I have a beige G3 desktop 233mhz with 512M ram that has an ATI chipset on
> the motherboard and an ATI chipset in a PCI VGA card (which the monitor is
> attached to). When I use xorgconfig I have to use fbdev as the ati choice
> will not work on testing. This gives me a 1280x1024 screen which works
> well on a 17” monitor, but the colors are all wrong.
>
>
>
> When I use Xorg –configure I get a working configuration with the ati
> driver, but the screen is (maybe) 640x480 and that’s it. I’ve tried
> merging the two files in every combination I can think of, and am not
> getting anywhere.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!
>
>
>
> Mark M. Hart

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I believe that either you are missing a driver in your kernel, or haven't
loaded it if set as a module.
On Thursday 04 May 2006 9:41 am, Mark M. Hart wrote:
> I just did an emerge on Xorgautoconfig and ran the command, but the
> xorg.conf file it makes doesn't work - it tells me that ATI(0) Adapter has
> not been initialized, and Screen(s) found, but none have a usable
> configuration.
>
> It sets Mode 1024x768 at several depths, which I can live with, and default
> mode of 16, which I can also live with. Now if I could just get it to work
> ...
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark M. Hart
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Gurvich [mailto:david.gurvich@verizon.net]
> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 4:59 AM
> To: gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] ATI configuration?
>
> There is an ebuild Xorgautoconfig specifically for this purpose. The
> generated xorg.conf needs some slight adjustments but seems to give good
> results.
>
> On Thursday 04 May 2006 7:34 am, Mark M. Hart wrote:
> > I have a beige G3 desktop 233mhz with 512M ram that has an ATI chipset on
> > the motherboard and an ATI chipset in a PCI VGA card (which the monitor
> > is attached to). When I use xorgconfig I have to use fbdev as the ati
> > choice will not work on testing. This gives me a 1280x1024 screen which
> > works well on a 17” monitor, but the colors are all wrong.
> >
> >
> >
> > When I use Xorg –configure I get a working configuration with the ati
> > driver, but the screen is (maybe) 640x480 and that’s it. I’ve tried
> > merging the two files in every combination I can think of, and am not
> > getting anywhere.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help!
> >
> >
> >
> > Mark M. Hart
>
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Mark M. Hart wrote:
> I'm new at this, and I don't know about ebuild yet. Can you give me a hint
> about what I should do to get the Xorgautoconfig built?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark M. Hart
> markmhart@gmail.com

You should probably take a look at the PPC FAQ[1]. I'm not exactly sure
which chipset your Mac has, but if you provide the output of
Xorgautoconfig --dump, I'll take a look at it.

- -Joe

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-ppc-faq.xml
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I got the fbdev version of the config file working by setting the default
depth to 16 instead of 24. This is an old 233 mhz box, and slow video isn't
going to make that much difference, I think. I would like to know at some
point how to get ATI video going with "real" drivers for my faster machine
when I move it from OS X to gentoo - maybe I have to compile it into the
kernel when I do my genkernel -menuconfig all command?

Thanks!

Mark M. Hart
markmhart@gmail.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Jezak [mailto:josejx@gentoo.org]
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 7:47 AM
To: gentoo-ppc-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] ATI configuration?

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Mark M. Hart wrote:
> I'm new at this, and I don't know about ebuild yet. Can you give me a
hint
> about what I should do to get the Xorgautoconfig built?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark M. Hart
> markmhart@gmail.com

You should probably take a look at the PPC FAQ[1]. I'm not exactly sure
which chipset your Mac has, but if you provide the output of
Xorgautoconfig --dump, I'll take a look at it.

- -Joe

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-ppc-faq.xml
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Mark M. Hart wrote:
> I got the fbdev version of the config file working by setting the default
> depth to 16 instead of 24. This is an old 233 mhz box, and slow video isn't
> going to make that much difference, I think. I would like to know at some
> point how to get ATI video going with "real" drivers for my faster machine
> when I move it from OS X to gentoo - maybe I have to compile it into the
> kernel when I do my genkernel -menuconfig all command?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark M. Hart
> markmhart@gmail.com

It's probably a Mach64, but I can't say without the output from
Xorgautoconfig --dump and lspci -v.

Sorry,
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Here goes:

Xorgautoconfig --dump yields:

Dumping Debugging Information:
Machine ID: Power Macintosh

EDID Tag: DPC7037
H-Min: 30 H-Max: 70 V-Min: 50 V-Max: 60
Card Dump:
Framebuffer Id: ATY Mach64
Framebuffer Type: 10
Framebuffer Depth: 16

lspci -v yields:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Motorola MPC106 [Grackle] (rev 40)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0

00:0d.0 SCSI storage controller: Artop Electronic Corp ATP860 (rev 01)
Subsystem: Artop Electronic Corp ATP860
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 128, IRQ 23
I/O ports at fe001040 [size=8]
I/O ports at fe001030 [size=4]
I/O ports at fe001020 [size=8]
I/O ports at fe001010 [size=4]
I/O ports at fe001000 [size=16]
Expansion ROM at 81910000 [disabled by cmd] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [58] Power Management version 1

00:0e.0 PCI bridge: Actiontec Electronics Inc Mini-PCI bridge (rev 11)
(prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: 81800000-818fffff
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [90] #06 [0000]

00:0f.0 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage LT Pro (rev dc)
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Rage LT Pro
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 25
Memory at 83000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
I/O ports at fe001400 [size=256]
Memory at 80000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Expansion ROM at 81920000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [5c] Power Management version 1

00:10.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. Heathrow Mac I/O (rev 01)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 21
Memory at f3000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]

00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage I/II
215GT [Mach64 GT] (rev 9a) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 22
Memory at 82000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
I/O ports at fe001800 [size=256]
Memory at 80001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

01:00.0 USB Controller: Agere Systems USS-312 USB Controller (rev 10)
(prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Agere Systems USS-312 USB Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 24
Memory at 81801000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

01:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 04) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Sonnet Technologies, Inc. Unknown device 0001
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 24
Memory at 81800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

Hope this helps!

Mark

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