Debian PPC won't run X

**TauLepton** · 07-06-2005

I've just installed Debian to an old-ish iMac. It was working, but since I downloaded and installed the graphical desktop, it boots up to a black screen. I'm using kdm, if that makes any difference. Other than that, I have no clue about what's installed or how it's configured.

**genesus** · 07-08-2005

kill the xserver with ctl-alt-f1, login as root to a terminal, and kill kdm with
/etc/init.d/kdm stop...

check out you monitor and screen settings in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4...is anything out of place? Check your monitor's vertical and horizontal sync ranges, this causes quite a bit of problems, and the debian installer is not great at setting these up correctly...yoiu may want to also chekc out your video drivers...

**TauLepton** · 07-13-2005

I looked at XF86Config-4, and nothing looked obviously wrong to me, besides really narrow hsync and vsync ranges. I backed it up and ran XF86Config to make a new one. It generates a fatal "no screens found" error when I start up X. Here are the relevant sections from my new XF86Config-4 file:

Code:

Section "Monitor
   Identifier "iMac Nokia 447Xi"
   HorizSync 31-91
   VertRefresh 50-100
EndSection

Section "Device"
   Identifier "ATI Rage 128 Ultra"
   Driver "vga"
      #unsupported card
   #VideoRam 16384
EndSection

Section "Screen"
   Identifier "Screen 1"
   Device "ATI Rage 128 Ultra"
   Monitor "iMac Nokia 447Xi
   DefaultDepth 24

   Subsection "Display"
      Depth 24
      Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
      ViewPort 0 0
   EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
   Identifier "Simple Layout"
   Screen "Screen 1"
   InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
   InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

I'm a newbie, so this doesn't mean much to me. Maybe you can tell what's going on. Oh, and how would I go about making sure the video drivers are working right?

**TauLepton** · 07-14-2005

Um, I just changed the Driver line from "vga" to "r128".

Please don't laugh. It still doesn't work though. now the errors I get are

Can't read V_BIOS
No DFP detected
then the server terminates with a "Caught signal 7" error.
This is meaningless to me.

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