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How to install debian on imac-emac ppc, very verbose set-up

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Re: How to install debian on imac-emac ppc, very verbose set-up

#76 Post by klhrevolutionist »

I've been having issues myself with getting X to work. I think mvto's xorg.conf may do the trick, it looks more to what I need so will try out. Thanks

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PowerPC ppc
Emac G4
7447
ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200]

Working xorg.conf:

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Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Option "OffTime" "10"
EndSection

Section "Files"
# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)

RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb.txt"
#FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
#FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1/"
#FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
#FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
#FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
#Load "dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
# Change "XkbModel" to "macintosh_old" if you are using
# the deprecated adb keycodes.
Option "XkbModel" "macintosh"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 30-82
VertRefresh 50-60
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
#Option "ShadowFB" "true"
#Option "fbdev" "/dev/fb0"
Driver "fbdev"
#BusID "PCI:0:16:0"
Option "UseFBDev" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection

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Re: How to install debian on imac-emac ppc, very verbose set-up

#77 Post by oswaldkelso »

Midori + html5 youtube on my Debian testing box is working. Struth, youtube working on Gnu/Linux PPC with out hacks. :)
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Re: How to install debian on imac-emac ppc, very verbose set-up

#78 Post by ZorgBar »

Thanks for this How to Oswald I have my imac with Lennyppc and E17 very cool :-) thank you very much :-)

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Re: How to install debian on imac-emac ppc, very verbose set

#79 Post by oswaldkelso »

See this thread to chose the options for watching youtube videos on PPC

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=51504
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