No Valid Monitor Settings for a PowerPC 8500/180
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Quoted 7 lines · Mike Clubine
I am currently trying to install the latest version of linuxppc-1999 on my PowerPC 8500/180. It has 1 Meg of video ram and it is not accelerated. (Basically it's the stock onboard video.) The install goes fine until the point in time that I am asked to configure my monitor setup. This is where things get interesting. I cannot find even one valid setting.
[snip trying a few monitors]
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Has anyone else run into this problem? I can choose something generic and then skip out on on the x-test when installing, but then as soon as I boot up I get tons of error messages having to do with gpm being mysteriously murdered, even if I take it out of the appropriate rc.d directories.
Boot into runlevel 1 and try running Xautoconfig. (There's a page about this at linuxppc.com/updates.) That should automatically generate a working XF86Config file.
Does anyone (developers?) know why Xconfigurator chokes so horribly on so many machines? Is it something different about Linux/PPC or a bug or what? This "no valid monitor" thing is pretty common. Another one (what I get) is a segfault immediately after detecting videocontroller and VRAM. Why doesn't it work?
-Hollis
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