Monitor display not working in console, works in X
Posted: 07 Feb 2007, 13:57
I have a revB i-mac on which I installed Yellow Dog 4.0. The install went fine. I decided to run the i-mac as a linux appliance so I did not need the monitor. I already have a spare monitor sitting around for other servers so I soldered together a 15pin macintosh video to VGA converter cable to use. After plugging in the monitor, it displayed fine during the BIOS start-up, and through the bootloader. Once the kernel loaded (tux appeared in the top left corner) the monitor displayed 4 columns, with succesive rows in successive columns.
I played around with the XF86Config and was able to get X windows displaying perfectly with the following stanza:
now the only thing that does not display correctly is the console. Does anyone know where the file is, or what must be done to tell the kernel (or whatever it is) how to interact with the monitor in the way that X uses the XF86Config file?
Thanks,
Kevin Nowaczyk
I played around with the XF86Config and was able to get X windows displaying perfectly with the following stanza:
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Section "Monitor"
# DisplaySize 270 200
# HorizSync 60.0 - 60.0
# VertRefresh 75.0 - 117.0
Identifier "Monitor0"
ModelName "Acer"
HorizSync 28.0 - 50.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 76.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
now the only thing that does not display correctly is the console. Does anyone know where the file is, or what must be done to tell the kernel (or whatever it is) how to interact with the monitor in the way that X uses the XF86Config file?
Thanks,
Kevin Nowaczyk