In article ,
YF Yong wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm a newbie who's just managed to install Debian 3.1 on an Old-World
>PCI PPC 8500. All I've managed so far is a command-line interface. For
>some reason, Gnome Display Manager is unable to run - error message
>indicating that the Xserver is unable to run, apparently not recognizing
>the display device. I would appreciate any advice as to how I can, if at
>all possible, boot into the GUI (X Windows?).
>
>My system setup:
>
>PCI PowerPC 8500 upgraded with 500Mhz G3 daughter card
>128MB RAM
>2 x 4 gig hard drives, with one dedicated for Debian.
>Running OS 9.2 and using BootX Bootloader
>15" Compaq CRT monitor (with adapter)
>Kensingnton 4-button ADB Mouse

You need to tell us what kind of graphics card you have,
how X has been configured, and how X fails.

The output of /sbin/lspci and the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf
and /var/log/Xorg.0.log should suffice for that.
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In article <44aa600c$1@griseus.its.uu.se>,
mikpe@harpo.csd.uu.se (Mikael Pettersson) wrote:

> In article ,
> YF Yong wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm a newbie who's just managed to install Debian 3.1 on an Old-World
> >PCI PPC 8500. All I've managed so far is a command-line interface. For
> >some reason, Gnome Display Manager is unable to run - error message
> >indicating that the Xserver is unable to run, apparently not recognizing
> >the display device. I would appreciate any advice as to how I can, if at
> >all possible, boot into the GUI (X Windows?).
> >
> >My system setup:
> >
> >PCI PowerPC 8500 upgraded with 500Mhz G3 daughter card
> >128MB RAM
> >2 x 4 gig hard drives, with one dedicated for Debian.
> >Running OS 9.2 and using BootX Bootloader
> >15" Compaq CRT monitor (with adapter)
> >Kensingnton 4-button ADB Mouse
>
> You need to tell us what kind of graphics card you have,
> how X has been configured, and how X fails.
>
> The output of /sbin/lspci and the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> and /var/log/Xorg.0.log should suffice for that.

Thank you for your response.

Graphics or video output from my 8500 is through the motherboard's (I
presume Apple's) chipset. I don't seem to be able to locate the outputs
you indicated above, but there's a log file at /var/log/XFree86.0.log.

I'm so new to linux that I've not figured out how to transfer/extract
that file to attach to this email (separate PC). Would appreciate a tip
on how to do it. Pending that, the onscreen error messages from the
Xserver output are:

(==) Logfile: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log". Time:Wed Jul 5 11:26:05 2006
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/F86 Config-4"
Skipping
"/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGlcore.a:m_debug_clip.0": No
symbols found
Skipping
"/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGlcore.a:m_debug_norm.0": No
symbols found
Skipping
"/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGlcore.a:m_debug_xform.0": No
symbols found
Skipping
"/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGlcore.a:m_debug_vertex.0": No
symbols found
Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a:spencode.0": No
symbols found
(EE) No devices detected



YF