apple cinema display 20" adc, ppc, other words of terror.... how to configure?

slack*****user · 02-23-2012, 04:22 PM

HI everybody, i have been "away" for awhile, so please refresh my memory on anything you have to. I have been googling like crazy on this subject but everything is turning up nil, or only half-explained.

I have an apple g4 with dual 1.25ghz processors, 2 gb of ram and an nvidia geforce4 ti4600 adc card, and my monitor is an apple cinema display 20" that can do 1600 x 1024, and it is used with the adc port. everything works from the mac side, hoo - ray,....sigh.

however that is not what i am concerned about. what i need to know is how would i go about getting a stable, albeit slow, x-window. i heard all these little tidbits but nothing that connects from start to finish.

i wanted to install slackintosh, as i have had it installed successfully on a few other old macs and a clamshell ibook a few years back, but i never had to tackle any adc technology, or had any framebuffer problems.

is it true i would have to disable KMS?(kernel mode switching)

do i have to pass options to OF thru yaboot such as append="video=ofonly resolution 1600x1024" ?

i searched quite a few ppc linux sites(ubuntu, deb, gentoo, even some bsd stuff for a lead) didnt get any real information, just fluff. and people that like distorted screens. any help would be awesome.

and apple hor and vert sync rates would probably be helpful as well.

slack*****user · 02-25-2012, 11:19 PM

ok, so i tried a slackintosh-livecd(its called GUS/wesnoth and 10.2)and apparently the monitor is seen as a usb monitor and is found right away, awesome, and you just use the nv driver for the card, unfortunately, tho i cant use my native resolution of 1600x1024. but perhaps that is because i cant seem to find the correct way to set up my xorg config.... hmmm. well any people with insight on the corect vert and horizontal syncs would be awesome and the correct refresh rate for this monitor would be f'ing amazing..........

anyone up for cross-compiling a version slackware 13.37 for all of the g3-g5 cpus? i dont have a development enviroment at the moment, as i dont have an actual computer to do any cross-compiling on.

frack, amirite?