From linux-ppc  Fri Jan 14 23:14:51 2000
From: "Andrew B. Arthur" <arthur99 () global2000 ! net>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 23:14:51 +0000
To: linux-ppc
Subject: Re: remove 4400 from list of linuxppc compatible hardware
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Jason Haas wrote:
> 
> Bill Simpson wrote:
> 
> > So, whoever maintains the list of linuxppc compatible hardware: please
> > remove the 4400 from the list. Thanks.
> 
> AFAIK, it should work with the No Video Driver setting in BootX.

> I have. an unused MacTell box, which has the 4400's logic board.

 Oh an yes, in case you are interested:

[AArthur@hagoleche AArthur]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor	: 0
cpu		: 603ev
clock		: 200MHz
revision	: 2.1
bogomips	: 133.12
zero pages	: total 0 (0Kb) current: 0 (0Kb) hits: 0/458 (0%)
machine		: Power Macintosh
motherboard	: AAPL,e826 MacRISC
L2 cache	: 256K unified
memory		: 32MB

Yep, it's a PowerMacintosh 4400/200 :) It's working great for me. It's
my primary computer and it runs PPC Linux at least 95% of the time. I am
using it now, this email is sent using Netscape Messager 4.7 running on
kernel 2.2.14-pre9 on my 4400.

For best results, you'll will want to leave no video driver checked,
then install the Xpmac X Server with the -mach64 flag enabled. It's
avalible from the link on linuxppc.org or you can use the older version
that is included in your favorite PPC Linux distro in the XFree86-Xpmac
package.

I've learned the hard way how Xpmac works (I've screwed lots up with it
-- and fixed lots of stuff) so if you have questions, you can probably
ask me. Hey, you have to learn somehow.

XF68_FBDev is really slow on machines using No Video Driver Checked, it
doesn't play nice with single button mice and requires complex
configuration to work properly (although tools like Xconfigurator or
Xautoconfig can help). 

And yes an unconfigured version of XF68_FBDev will give you an error
like 'init x was murdered mysterously!' (which is caused by your
graphical logon manager being unable to get XF68_FBDev to start) or just
'No applicable modelines could be found!' (XF68_FBDev is dumb X Server,
it requires you or a program like to Xautoconfig or yourself by hand to
tell it about your resolution and colors). Xpmac will never have either
of those messages. The only time I have ever heard of Xpmac refusing to
start on a person's hardware is when it can't find the default font [the
basic font required to run X] (which I did a few week ago using the xdm
graphical logon screen and Xpmac -- which left me stumped for a while)
or using an incompatible Xpmac binary (such as Xpmac.rage128.r6.gz which
is compiled exclusively for Kernel 2.2.13+ AND glibc 2.1.13 only.)

Bye. Off to compile the lastest pmac-stable, since the one I compiled
and attempted to use didn't work (hehe... I guess I did a bit too much
messing around with head.S). 

Have fun.

Andrew B. Arthur | arthur99@global2000.net | "Don't sweat the little
things..."
					      (from OpenProject's #linpeople)

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