Post #192,167
1/28/05 10:17:37 PM
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Installing now
Very sweet. Grabbed the Sarge disc 1 and I'm assuming I was using the new, friendler installer. It reminded me a bit of Red Hat's text-based install program.
Pretty sweet. It looks like it sees all my hardware, including my scanner and FireWire CDRW burner.
It even loaded in a driver for my Airport card (802.11b). *Very* nice.
I'm currently downloading about 570 MB of packages to help me get set up, which should take an hour or so. Then I'll go in, look around and see what else needs doing.
So far, though, it looks really nice.
Tom Sinclair
"This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here."
-- The Bursar is a man under a *lot* of stress
(Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies)
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Post #192,179
1/29/05 12:00:44 AM
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Good. AND
Told Ya!
Neener... Neener!
-- [link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg], [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwethey[link|http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134485&cid=11233230|"Microsoft Security" is an even better oxymoron than "Miltary Intelligence"] No matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp|source]
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Post #192,188
1/29/05 2:02:47 AM
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Re: Good. AND
So far, not too many hiccups. I installed the SMP kernel and now both of my G4s show up. Much easier than expected.
Having some problems with video, though. For some reason
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
is not recognizing my video card (32MB ATI Rage) so currently I get 800x600 max resolution.
I'm continuing to research this. I've found a spec sheet so I can focus my search a little better.
Tom Sinclair
"This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here."
-- The Bursar is a man under a *lot* of stress
(Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies)
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Post #192,226
1/29/05 3:40:52 PM
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Which Xserver are you using?
Some times it detects the Correct "Wrong" driver...
Might also be one of the Cards that needs to be hand-massaged to get it past 800x600.
Might just ask on debian-user, debian-powerpc or even debian-x. Also, don't forget to do an Installation Report for the PPC (and your Sparc too) as they need to see the problems as well as "good" results. Even Workarounds in the Install Reports are good to see.
-- [link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg], [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwethey[link|http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134485&cid=11233230|"Microsoft Security" is an even better oxymoron than "Miltary Intelligence"] No matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp|source]
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Post #192,240
1/29/05 8:56:24 PM
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Good point
If by 'which X server' you mean the version:
tsinclai@homeg4:~$ dpkg -s xserver-xfree86
Package: xserver-xfree86
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 15628
Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force <debian-x@lists.debian.org>
Architecture: powerpc
Source: xfree86
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10
I'm already thinking I may have to hand-roll the config file, so I'm still searching.
Tom Sinclair
"This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here."
-- The Bursar is a man under a *lot* of stress
(Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies)
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Post #192,194
1/29/05 2:18:32 AM
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Re: Installing now
It even loaded in a driver for my Airport card (802.11b). *Very* nice. \r\n\r\n How the heck? I thought the Airport cards are all based on Broadcom chipsets to which they aren't any free drivers. \r\n Steven Yap
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Post #192,217
1/29/05 10:48:54 AM
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Re: Installing now
I was watching the startup messages and it loaded a driver called 'airport' plus it let me choose between my Ethernet and wireless connection as my main network port.
Tom Sinclair
"This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here."
-- The Bursar is a man under a *lot* of stress
(Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies)
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