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YF Yong
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 04 Jul 2006
Posts: 4
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 Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 7:50 am Post subject:
Debian on G3 upgraded PPC 8500
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Hi,
I'm a newbie who's just managed to install Debian 3.1 on an Old-World
PCI PPC 8500. All I've managed so far is a command-line interface. For
some reason, Gnome Display Manager is unable to run - error message
indicating that the Xserver is unable to run, apparently not recognizing
the display device. I would appreciate any advice as to how I can, if at
all possible, boot into the GUI (X Windows?).
My system setup:
PCI PowerPC 8500 upgraded with 500Mhz G3 daughter card
128MB RAM
2 x 4 gig hard drives, with one dedicated for Debian.
Running OS 9.2 and using BootX Bootloader
15" Compaq CRT monitor (with adapter)
Kensingnton 4-button ADB Mouse
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Mikael Pettersson
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 29 Aug 2005
Posts: 16
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| Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 12:33 pm Post subject:
Re: Debian on G3 upgraded PPC 8500
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In article <yinfui-A292CE.17501604072006@news-vip.optusnet.com.au>,
YF Yong <yinfui@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
| Quote: | Hi,
I'm a newbie who's just managed to install Debian 3.1 on an Old-World
PCI PPC 8500. All I've managed so far is a command-line interface. For
some reason, Gnome Display Manager is unable to run - error message
indicating that the Xserver is unable to run, apparently not recognizing
the display device. I would appreciate any advice as to how I can, if at
all possible, boot into the GUI (X Windows?).
My system setup:
PCI PowerPC 8500 upgraded with 500Mhz G3 daughter card
128MB RAM
2 x 4 gig hard drives, with one dedicated for Debian.
Running OS 9.2 and using BootX Bootloader
15" Compaq CRT monitor (with adapter)
Kensingnton 4-button ADB Mouse
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You need to tell us what kind of graphics card you have,
how X has been configured, and how X fails.
The output of /sbin/lspci and the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf
and /var/log/Xorg.0.log should suffice for that.
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YF Yong
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 04 Jul 2006
Posts: 4
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| Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 4:29 pm Post subject:
Re: Debian on G3 upgraded PPC 8500
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In article <44aa600c$1@griseus.its.uu.se>,
mikpe@harpo.csd.uu.se (Mikael Pettersson) wrote:
| Quote: | In article <yinfui-A292CE.17501604072006@news-vip.optusnet.com.au>,
YF Yong <yinfui@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
Hi,
I'm a newbie who's just managed to install Debian 3.1 on an Old-World
PCI PPC 8500. All I've managed so far is a command-line interface. For
some reason, Gnome Display Manager is unable to run - error message
indicating that the Xserver is unable to run, apparently not recognizing
the display device. I would appreciate any advice as to how I can, if at
all possible, boot into the GUI (X Windows?).
My system setup:
PCI PowerPC 8500 upgraded with 500Mhz G3 daughter card
128MB RAM
2 x 4 gig hard drives, with one dedicated for Debian.
Running OS 9.2 and using BootX Bootloader
15" Compaq CRT monitor (with adapter)
Kensingnton 4-button ADB Mouse
You need to tell us what kind of graphics card you have,
how X has been configured, and how X fails.
The output of /sbin/lspci and the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf
and /var/log/Xorg.0.log should suffice for that.
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Thank you for your response.
Graphics or video output from my 8500 is through the motherboard's (I
presume Apple's) chipset. I don't seem to be able to locate the outputs
you indicated above, but there's a log file at /var/log/XFree86.0.log.
I'm so new to linux that I've not figured out how to transfer/extract
that file to attach to this email (separate PC). Would appreciate a tip
on how to do it. Pending that, the onscreen error messages from the
Xserver output are:
(==) Logfile: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log". Time:Wed Jul 5 11:26:05 2006
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/F86 Config-4"
Skipping
"/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGlcore.a:m_debug_clip.0": No
symbols found
Skipping
"/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGlcore.a:m_debug_norm.0": No
symbols found
Skipping
"/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGlcore.a:m_debug_xform.0": No
symbols found
Skipping
"/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGlcore.a:m_debug_vertex.0": No
symbols found
Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a:spencode.0": No
symbols found
(EE) No devices detected
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