Configuring Xorg on my Emac (A1002)
Hi everyone, and thanks for taking the time to read this :)
[history] I got an eMac, model name: A1002, a week ago from my work (yay!) and I wanted to install a linux distribution on it. The one that seemed most likely to work immediately was Yellow Dog Linux, which I then proceeded to download and install. I was unable to install the general build though, because the Xorg server failed to initialize. So I installed an option called "install-text" and was presented to a new friend of mine, bash. So I decided to read up on it and tried to find a working xorg.conf to imitate. After some hours I was able to find one that seems to go pretty far in the process, the server is still unable to load though :( [/end history] So this is where I am right now. Xorg seems to go through a lot of commands but then pauses and fails to start, without presenting any errors in the .cfg file. I'm not sure whether there's something else I didn't configure, or if it's the xorg.conf I need to edit? The error I'm presented with is: Code:
giving up The xorg.conf is as follows: Code:
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While it is not for YDL, there is a tutorial for X settings specifically for the e-mac on a post by oswald kelso.
Google debian install imac verbose. I think you will find it that way. It helped me bunches even when Not using Debian. Not a typo: search using imac but in the post the emac is specifically covered! HTH RP |
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Xorg still fails when I try to install the standard build of YDL :( And I'm not really ready for a text-only linux, I don't know it's not revelant to the topic, but do you know if it's possible to do anything about this? edit: found a guide, thanks for the help :D the .conf that worked Code:
#tested on eMac, ATI 1.25 GHz |
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