Re: Now I'm a Macppc-netbsd users

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Apr 14, 2009, at 7:45 AM, Neal Hogan wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Pietro Capriata
> <pietro.capriata%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> > Today I'have removed my deblin installation and put netbsd 4.0.1 on  
> > my
> > (old?) imac g4 1ghz....
>
> great!
>
> > butI have some problem  with X that  freeze my system... why? (I  
> > must reboot
> > manually the system)
>
> hmm . . .
>
> I think more info is required. I'm no expert, but I suspect that
> you'll get more responses if you post more info. How are you trying to
> start X? At what point does computer freeze? What is in you Xorg.log?
> How much change do you have in your pocket?

Indeed. IIRC most iMac G4 have some sort of radeon on the mainboard.  
Also, 4.x uses XFree86 which should support most radeons from that  
time, it may have trouble with the built-in TFT though, depends where  
Apple put the EDID data. I've seen machines with built-in displays  
where the EDID block was only available as an OpenFirmware device  
property and the monitor itself didn't respond to DDC2 at all so X had  
no way to identify the monitor - impossible to tell if that's what  
happened.
So, yeah, we need to look at your XFree86.0.log to figure out what the  
Xserver thinks is going on. Also, dmesg output would be helpful to see  
what the kernel thinks about this machine.

Finally - there's a good chance that the machine didn't actually lock  
up. Many X drivers are notoriously bad at cleaning up after themselves  
so if for instance X set up a video mode your monitor can't display  
( pretty likely as far as I can tell ) the result might look like a  
deadlock. Or, if your X session dies and X fails to restore the  
previous video mode ( if you have a radeon that's probably what  
happened ) you may also end up with a black screen. So, does the iMac  
still answer pings?

have fun
Michael

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