Mac Mini and Xorg

[Sean Welch]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:56:00AM +1000, Peter Grehan wrote:
>  I don't think that's a side-effect. If you look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log 
> it should show the modes that it's trying to use. From what I've seen, X 
> isn't able to query the monitor properly. This may be another ppc signed 
> char bug embedded deep within.
> 
>  Net result is that you have to specify the monitor's HorizSync and 
> VertRefresh ranges so Xorg can pick an appropriate modeline. It'll take 
> me a while to dig up my mini's Xorg.conf - Tilman, if you're reading, do 
> you have your's handy ?

Alright.  I actually got it (after several startx attempts) to get
past the modeline issue but it still fails (almost) silently.

>  I think you have to keep the non ifdef'd lines of the form
> 
>     vgaHWSave(pScrn, &hwp->SavedReg, VGA_SR_ALL);
> 
>  ... since that was the issue when VTY switching.

Hm.  That could be part of my problem I suppose.

I'm not having any luck running a buildworld using the new kernel
(claimed it ran out of memory (???) once and just froze another time) so
I'm going to have to strip it out and do things in the proper order to
be sure everything is working correctly (buildworld first, then new
kernel).  I'm not terribly surprised by this behavior -- the sources
are 1.5 months apart in age after all.

Sean