Subject: Re: XF86 on macppc, issue 8472854 ;)
To: Chris Tribo <ctribo@dtcc.edu>
From: Timo Schoeler <wanker4freedom@web.de>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/31/2005 23:09:13
hi,

> If you are feeling adventurous, I have XFree 4.5.0 compiled under 
> 3.99.2 available:
>
> http://user.dtcc.edu/~ctribo/macppc/xfree-netbsd-450.tgz (60 MB)
>
> MD5 (xfree-netbsd-450.tgz) = 500f960e72f812cb596150c30f1c7a92

thanks, i'll take a look. i'm updating my userland at the moment, so 
this will happen tomorrow morning earliest (read: in eight hours or 
so).

cheers,

timo

ps: nonetheless i'd be very interested in the solution based on 4.4.0 
(since it ran... in the past).

> On Mar 31, 2005, at 3:04 PM, Timo Schoeler wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>
>> hey, -current runs on my G4 again -- after it stopped working early 
>> october last year, but that's a different story...
>>
>> i'm running -current now and have XFree 4.4.0 installed (4.5.0's make 
>> failed -- no time to figure it out yet.)
>>
>> however, X ran on my G4 with the XF86Config file applied (see below), 
>> but now i got every time i try to fire up X my screen out of sync -- 
>> my monitor (22" CRT, really not crap ;) says 'Horizontal 260kHz, 
>> Vertical 208Hz' (blabla).
>>
>> the important dmesg lines:
>>
>> (...)
>> ofb0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0: ATI Technologies product 0x4966
>> ofb0: 1600 x 1200, 8bpp
>> wsdisplay0 at ofb0 kbdmux 1: console (std, vt100 emulation)
>> wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay0
>> (...)
>> wsmouse0 at ums0 mux 0
>> (...)
>> wskbd1 at ukbd0 mux 1
>> wskbd1: connecting to wsdisplay0
>> (...)
>>
>> my XF86Config is here:
>>
>> http://snom.dyndns.org/XF86Config
>>
>> and the log is here:
>>
>> http://snom.dyndns.org/XFree86.0.log
>>
>> furthermore, this happens (with the same 'out-of-sync' values!) with 
>> every resolution i try to run...
>>
>> any hint? micheal? ;)
>>
>> thanks in advance & cheers,
>>
>> -- 
>> Timo Schoeler | http://macfinity.net/~tis | 
>> timo.schoeler@macfinity.net
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>
>
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