Hi,

Sorry that I vagued that up too much.

Here's a somewhat bad photo of the G4 running X from NetBSD 2.0.
You can see that there are some twm window borders, but that's about
it...

http://edoneel.chaosnet.org/DSCN0302.jpg

Thanks for any and all help!

cheers

bruce

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 12:50:07PM -0600, Roger Midmore wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Michael wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure if we have a similar problem or not.
> 
> But i just got my new power book as well and want to install netbsd on a
> seperate partition. First, however, I tried to just install X on OS X from
> the Darwin-ppc-7.x distro and ran into a very similar problem.  X doesn't
> seem to work properly. If I use twm as a wm and launch X on top of quartz
> it starts ups just like yours. It will crash if I try and use another wm
> or if I try and run X from the >console and not on top of X. So I think
> there might be a problem with X on the new hardware, since the drivers for
> the new hardware came out in dec (i think).
> 
>  > Hello,
> >
> > > Well, that was a start.  Now it looks like a garbled twm starts up with
> > > the three xterms I would expect.  It's not quite usable though :-)
> > >
> > > Does someone hava working XF86config file?  Thanks!
> >
> > It would help greatly if you were a /little/ more specific about your problems. What do you mean - 'garbled twm' ? Does the Xserver produce a stable picture or not? Does it get resolution and colour depth right? If both answers are yes then you're done with XF86Config.
> >
> > Sorry, but if you don't describe your problem nobody will be able to help you.
> >
> > have fun
> > Michael
> >

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