Hi all, I'm new here. I installed Arch in my macmini (G4) using your wiki (great guide), but I'm having some problem to proceed in arch. I'm trying to install X, so I installed: Xorg (and dependencies), xf86-video-ati, xf86-input-keyboard, xf86-input-mouse. I configured X with xorgconfig (I think correctly) but when I try "startx" I've black screen, and monitor does like there is no signal (appears a popup who search for digital or analogic signal). I modified monitor vertical sync like in monitor manual but nothing, X doesn't start. It's not possible to use hwd on ppc to configure it?
I think that this is a great project (and arch is a great distro), thanks for your work.
gianluca mazza wrote:
Hi all, I'm new here. I installed Arch in my macmini (G4) using your wiki (great guide), but I'm having some problem to proceed in arch. I'm trying to install X, so I installed: Xorg (and dependencies), xf86-video-ati, xf86-input-keyboard, xf86-input-mouse. I configured X with xorgconfig (I think correctly) but when I try "startx" I've black screen, and monitor does like there is no signal (appears a popup who search for digital or analogic signal). I modified monitor vertical sync like in monitor manual but nothing, X doesn't start. It's not possible to use hwd on ppc to configure it?
You should try X -configure instead of xorgconfig. It actually does a little more than just writing out a config. It detects proper BusId settings and such.
Cheers,
-U
Il giorno 12/lug/07, alle ore 11:27, Alexander Baldeck ha scritto:
gianluca mazza wrote:
Hi all, I'm new here. I installed Arch in my macmini (G4) using your wiki (great guide), but I'm having some problem to proceed in arch. I'm trying to install X, so I installed: Xorg (and dependencies), xf86-video-ati, xf86-input-keyboard, xf86-input-mouse. I configured X with xorgconfig (I think correctly) but when I try "startx" I've black screen, and monitor does like there is no signal (appears a popup who search for digital or analogic signal). I modified monitor vertical sync like in monitor manual but nothing, X doesn't start. It's not possible to use hwd on ppc to configure it?
You should try X -configure instead of xorgconfig. It actually does a little more than just writing out a config. It detects proper BusId settings and such.
Ok, I solved the problem. I used a vga/dvi adaptor for the same monitor and X started. Thanks for reply.
ciao, come va il porting di arch su ppc ?
sacarde
2007/7/23, sacarde sacarde@tiscali.it:
ciao, come va il porting di arch su ppc ?
This is not a local mailing list, so pls write in english. Anyway, to anwser your question, arch on ppc is great! I've been running it on my iBook in the last year and it gets better and better every day. I definitely got rid of MAC OS X. While still not as complete as the i686 version, it's still fairly complete. And of course you can use AUR (works ok 99.9% of the times) to build packages not present in repositories. A great "thank you" to every dev involved in the project!
Cheers
Markus
This is not a local mailing list, so pls write in english.
sorry
Anyway, to anwser your question, arch on ppc is great! I've been running it on my iBook in the last year and it gets better and better every day. I definitely got rid of MAC OS X. While still not as complete as the i686 version, it's still fairly complete. And of course you can use AUR (works ok 99.9% of the times) to build packages not present in repositories. A great "thank you" to every dev involved in the project!
I have this problems yet:
printer kde-audio skype flash opera
that you can read in this ml
archlinuxppc is well, but not verywell yet
sacarde wrote:
I have this problems yet:
printer
not ppc specific
kde-audio
likewise
skype
does not exist for ppc for it is a binary blob
flash
does not exist for ppc for it is a binary blob, gnash is the only more or less decent alternative
opera
binary blob and thus unfixable, we are considering to drop it completely
Cheers,
-G
Hello,
I'll just clarify what's going on here, Alexander's responses were a little terse.
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 10:18:52AM +0200, Alexander Baldeck wrote:
sacarde wrote:
I have this problems yet:
printer
not ppc specific
kde-audio
likewise
The problems you're having here are not PPC specific. You'll find it more productive to ask on the CUPS and KDE mailing lists, respectively. There you'll find people knowledgeable about those systems who can help you troubleshoot things.
skype
does not exist for ppc for it is a binary blob
flash
does not exist for ppc for it is a binary blob, gnash is the only more or less decent alternative
opera
binary blob and thus unfixable, we are considering to drop it completely
Binary blobs are non-Free software that is not distributed in source form. In the case of skype and flash, the developers have decided not to support PPC/linux. You will not be able to use these programs on any distribution of linux on PPC hardware. (At least, not until somebody reverse engineers them to a useful point. See Gnash, which is a work-in-progress Gnu Flash engine.) You'll need to go to Mac OS X, which the manufacturers do support.
In the case of Opera, binaries are provided by Opera. Any problems with that binary cannot be fixed by the ArchPPC team, or any distro for that matter, becaue Opera provides them in a form which is impractical to fix. If you really, really need opera, you're out of luck. Find out what distro Opera builds their PPC binaries against, and try that. Or run Mac OS X. Or just use firefox.
Matthew
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