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Date:      Sun, 03 Nov 2013 17:06:16 -0600
From:      Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Christoph_Gr=FCll?= <chris.gruell@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: No X on PowerMac G5
Message-ID:  <3A34BE70-0C15-4199-B422-2C39279B47FA@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <CACdiCwbist0rfRmdBug2aEcSgkru-iDxbUzZ2CCBWA%2B4TAkWpQ@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <CACdiCwbist0rfRmdBug2aEcSgkru-iDxbUzZ2CCBWA%2B4TAkWpQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Nov 3, 2013, at 4:30 PM, Christoph Gr=FCll wrote:

> Hello there :)
>
> Recently installed FreeBSD on my PowerMac G5 7,3 2.0DP and just wow,
> it works great!
> But not X ...
>
> I read several guides, tried to use vesa instead of ati (ATI 9600),
> tried to turn off AllowEmptyInput and UseFBDev, etc, nothing really
> work. Build and rebuild X with and without HAL support. I always get
> the same error. Here's the thread showing my work:
> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=3D238735

VESA won't work on PPC since you (presumably) don't have a PC BIOS on =20=

the card. ATI should work just fine, though, so long as you set =20
"UseFBDev" to "Off" in your xorg.conf file. Could you try with X -=20
verbose 9 -logverbose 9 and send the result if it still doesn't work?
-Nathan=



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