From linux-ppc Sun Jan 16 18:39:04 2000 From: "Andrew B. Arthur" Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 18:39:04 +0000 To: linux-ppc Subject: Re: please, help with Xpmac X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=linux-ppc&m=94804830021717 "Daniel J. Patnaude" wrote: > > Hello- > I installed the latest Xpmac yesterday, and I have to say, it worked great. The > screen was nice and bright, windows were refreshed, and things were peachy. But... when > I went to log out of KDE, the xserver just shut my screen of. I had previously edited my > initab to boot into runlevel 5, so I figured that if I did a hard reboot, the xserver > would launch me into a graphical login. When I did this, my screen started blinking > between blue and black!!!! Is the font fixed in the default font path? This is one of the few things that can stop Xpmac from working. > Thinking I had no way of fixing this and tried with No Video Driver checked, all to no avail. Thought I was screwed. > edit /etc/inittab in bbedit. Now, I can atleast get back to a console window. You can tell Linux what runlevel to boot into by typing the number in more kernel arguments -- so if you want Linux to boot into runlevel 3, just pop a 3 in more kernel arguments. That is extermely handy for problems like that, especially because LinuxDisks is old and buggy (it's known to corrupt disks) and doesn't support IDE disks. > I really like the way xpmac feels, and do not want to go back to XFree. So, after this long winded explanation, my question is: > > How do I get xpmac to work properly. There must be other people out there running kernel 2.2.14 on a beige G3 MT with the ATI Rage Pro 3D for DVD. What BootX parameters do I specify? What command line parameters do I use when I run startx, i.e. is it: > startx -- -mach64 Use this, since it's the prefered form. Of course if your lazy, like most of us, open up /usr/X11R6/bin/startx in your favorite text editor, and replace serverargs="" with serverargs="-mach64". This should make life easier for you -- no more typing -mach64 all of the time. If you use kdm/xdm you will want to edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers and replace :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X with :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -mach64 for mach64 acceleration. > Finally, when I run KDE, and choose "logout", how do I get Xpmac to bring me back to the > console window? It should normally. If it refuses to, switch back to the console manually using control-command-f1. Note any errors it prints out, maybe that will tell you why Xpmac isn't bringing you back to your console. Andrew B. Arthur | arthur99@global2000.net | ** Sent via the linuxppc-user mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/