Testing flight 3 on Powerbook

Mark Jaffe markie at ydl.net
Sat Jan 28 21:31:22 GMT 2006


What I find very interesting is that during bootup, the graphic mode  
is perfect. Is it possible to employ the boot-time graphics  
configuration at run-time?

Mark
On Jan 28, 2006, at 12:14 PM, Mark Jaffe wrote:

>
> I will be glad to file the bug and report results, but one of the  
> issues I have is getting the files saved to where I can mail them.  
> I used to be able to access the ext3 filesystem from Mac OS X, but  
> that kernel extension is not working now in Tiger (10.4). I might  
> be able to use sendmail to mail it to myself and then the list. I  
> will try this today.
>
> Mark
> On Jan 27, 2006, at 10:27 PM, Corey Burger wrote:
>
>> On 1/27/06, Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Thanks for the tip, but this was hopeless. I don't understand  
>>>> how, but the
>>>> YellowDog and Mandrake distributions manage to configure X fine  
>>>> on my
>>>> machine, during the installation, without me having to answer _ANY_
>>>> questions. The only reason I am not using them is that I can't  
>>>> get my
>>>> wireless card working there.
>>>>
>>>> Using the suggested command below presented a sequence of  
>>>> questions that I
>>>> tried to answer as best I could. The result was no better than I  
>>>> had before.
>>>>
>>>
>>> if YellowDog and Mandrake does it  and Ubuntu doesn't, then there is
>>> possibly a bug somewhere in the way Ubuntu does things.  You should
>>> file a bug report, or look in Malone to see if there is already  
>>> one in
>>> there like yours.
>>>
>>> I would guess  that  /var/log/Xorg.0.log  has some hints of what's
>>> going wrong.  but without seeing that log, or your xorg.conf file  
>>> you
>>> get at installation, it's difficult to say.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Daniel Robitaille
>>
>> X in dapper currently has an issue where it is asking you the
>> resolution of your monitor. This is a bug (and a fairly serious
>> regression) and should be reported as such.
>>
>> Corey
>>
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