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Patrik Montgomery wrote:
On 04-09-18 18.56, Yves de Champlain (email@hidden) wrote:
Incidentally, I tried running startx then sleeping and killing X, and
the result is that the mouse cursor goes away, but the screen stays
grey.
it says screen :0 added, then discarding screen :1, then it says
invalid hieght and width
Maybe the problem is related to me having an ATI Radeon 8500. I had an
ATI driver installed under OS X Jaguar, and X11 has worked on Jaguar
and continues to work under Panther. I wonder if I need to get an ati
driver installed into opendarwin somehow in order for X to work.
Here is the output I had which was very similar, except that I got a
black screen
covering everything except the cursor and that it happened only if I
had an OpenFirmware
screen during boot (including with the <alt> key)
Operating System: Darwin Apple Computer, Inc.
Using keymapping provided in /System/Library/Keyboards/USA.keymapping.
Display mode: IOKit
Screen 0 added: 1440x900 @ (0,0)
Discarding screen 1:
Invalid width or height.
The problem is that the monitor resolution it finds is not among the
defaults it accepts at first. Try setting it to 1024*768 and see if you can
get the server to boot that way. That done, see if you can get the program
xf86cfg to run - I don't remember if it's installed by default or if you
have to find it somewhere. If you can get the program to run, you can use it
to add other accepted resolutions (modelines).
Attempting to use refresh rate of 75
Attempting to use width x height = 1024 x 768
XFree86 Version 4.4.0 / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
Release Date: 29 February 2004
If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your hardware is
newer than the above date, look for a newer version before
reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ)
Operating System: Darwin Apple Computer, Inc.
Using keymapping provided in /System/Library/Keyboards/USA.keymapping.
Display mode: IOKit
Discarding screen 0:
Desired screen resolution or refresh rate is not supported.
Discarding screen 0:
Desired screen resolution or refresh rate is not supported.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
OsVendorFatalError
AbortDDX
Quitting XDarwin...
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
this is different than without the size and refresh rates specified
though. In thouse cases it says it's discarding screen 1: and the server
doesn't die.
Regarding xf86cfg, I read:
"From the console, the Darwin port of XFree86 uses the IOKit for device
driver loading and discovery, rather than the XFree86 module loader.
Because of this, the XFree86 configuration file is not used on Darwin or
Mac OS X systems."
In the Darwin specific notes that come with XFree86 4.4.0.
Can I still use xf86cfg?
I wonder if copying /System/Library/Extensions/ATI* from MacOS X into
opendarwin's filesystem would allow opendarwin to use ati's drivers.
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