Hi Andrew,

XFree86 version 4.0.x has two configuration tools that might solve your
difficulty... see the forwarded email from Thomas Klausner.

I'm in the process of bringing up NetBSD/macppc on a StarMax; currently the
biggest problem is the video doesn't sync and the only way I can run is via
a serial port to another computer running zterm. I'm able to switch NetBSD
console to the screen OK, but un-sync'd monitor isn't very usable.

Switching to a more modern version of XFree86 would solve part of this
difficulty for me. However I still need to get video drivers that sync up
the ATI RAGE II (ATI Mach64 chipset) card to run before executing startx.

Does anyone know how this gets put in the startup script? Is it legit to
invoke XConfigure before doing startx?

David

>X-From_: port-macppc-owner-david.g.henderson=technologist.com@netbsd.org
>Fri Jan 26 06:39 PST 2001
>Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 15:37:28 +0100
>From: Thomas Klausner <wiz@danbala.ifoer.tuwien.ac.at>
>To: Michael Jessop <mjessop@copyright.com>
>Cc: port-macppc@netbsd.org
>Subject: Re: I recently saw a query about xfree86 v.4 on netbsd/ppc...
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>	port-macppc@netbsd.org
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>Hi!
>
>Mutt made me believe that Michael Jessop wrote:
>> ...but did not see any responses to the person's question.  Has there been
>> anymore progress and is there an estimate as to when there will be a solid,
>> working version of xf86 4.0.x for netbsd ppc?
>
>I'm currently happily running 4.0.1 on my Powerbook G3 with tsubai's
>patches, even >8bit.
>
>Just get a clean XFree86 4.0.1 source and apply
>	ftp://nandra.iri.co.jp/pub/NetBSD/macppc/XFree86/diff-2000-11-23.gz
>
>Bye,
> Thomas
>
>--
>Thomas Klausner - wiz@danbala.tuwien.ac.at
>To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain
>that sustain life, not the top. -- Robert M. Pirsig
>