[slackintosh-users] Re: Problem with powerbook g4 15 inch

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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:47:20 +0200
From: "Marco Bonetti" <marco.bonetti@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [slackintosh-users] Re: Problem with powerbook g4 15 inch

On 7/25/07, Filadelfo Fiamma <philosganga@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi! I've installed slackintosh on my powerbook...but there is a problem:
> > After i've finished to install, i reboot my pwb..and slack run normally in
> > the command line.. good

Have a similar initial issue with starting X on a CRT 350MHz G3 iMac.

> > what is the problem?
> you've to configure xorg. take a look at Slackware slackbook:
> http://www.slackbook.org/html/x-window-system.html

From this, getting a good xorg.conf to successfully start X under xorg requires 
several as-accurate-as-possible entries about hardware that each Mac owner MUST 
obtain or figure out.  For xorgconfig, you must select the following from 
provided lists:
1. Your mouse type
2. Your monitor's **EXACT** horizontal sync range
3. Your monitor's **EXACT** vertical sync range
4. Your exact video card or a video card with a chipset as close as possible to 
that of your video card
5. The exact amount of VRAM on your video card
** The instructions in Slackbook and in other xorg docs specifically caution 
that if you enter your monitor's sync rates all wrong, there is a possibility 
that you could actually BURN OUT your monitor!

> in case  you're using an ati radeon, there also was a nice thread in
> this mailing list: 
> http://www.freelists.org/archives/slackintosh-users/12-2005/msg00025.html

Guess that there would be several ways to either a) obtain a Mac model's exact 
hw spec items 1-5 for directly xorgconfig entry or b) obtain a Mac model's 
xorg.conf entries such as those provided within the ati radeon link above.  
Perhaps THE ideal way to proceed successfully through xorgconfig within the 
a)-way is to have all the required 1-5 pieces of hw specs at hand directly from 
the manual.

Since this particular iMac user does not have the manual that came with the 
iMac, will have to get the iMac's EXACT model number for the a)-way.  May even 
first go the b)-way by booting a liveCD such as the PowerPC Xubuntu in order to 
directly read off -- and copy over to the Slackintosh partition -- its working 
xorg.conf file.  

Cheers!
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