Old World Mac

Peter Gort pgort at iprimus.com.au
Sun Aug 21 04:58:41 UTC 2005


Thanks for the tips Tommy, will let you know how I get on.  Video is  
onboard on the 8600, as opposed to the 9600's card.  Nice to know I  
can always pick up a PCI video card and use that.

On 21/08/2005, at 12:38 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote:

> On 8/20/05, Peter Gort <pgort at iprimus.com.au> wrote:
>
>> I have been given a Powermac
>> 8600/250 with 224MBs of ram.  ...  Worked perfectly first time
>> except.....
>>
>> No X11 .  Text mode is working perfectly but no X11.
>>
>
> You will want to identify your video hardware for future reference.
> You can use the "lspci" command to look at the PCI devices -- one of
> them may say "display controller" and list the chip it uses.
>
> You can do some Google searches and be sure to include keywords linux
> and the display chip model.
>
> Also do a Google search on your monitor's model number and find its
> EXACT video characteristics. You want to know Vertical frequency and
> Horizontal frequency, for instance. Both may have an acceptable range.
>
> Then issue this command
>
> sudo dpkg reconfigure xserver-xorg
>
> and go through all the prompts. That might get you going. If not,
> there may be some further hints on the pages that list your video
> card. I can't remember if the video on your model is built in or on a
> separate card.
>
> On an old Power Mac 9600 I was trying to get running, it turns out the
> video card that comes with it is NOTORIOUS for being hard to use with
> linux, so I got a much easier to use card on eBay, and made a lot more
> progress.
>
> Good luck!





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