Problem with Xorg and maybe wscons too?

Hi,

I have a similar eMac (1.25 GHz model but also with an ATI
Radeon 7200
card) and works just fine with NetBSD-3 and XFree86.

I don`t know about special tweaks with Xorg; but why don't
you just
use the in-base XFree86 server?

Anyway I see these apparent flaws on your xorg.conf (at
least if it
was XFree86):

 -> The XkbModel you should use is "pc105" (or
something similar)
since it's a USB keyboard. The "macintosh" model
will get you
incorrect keycodes and I think it's only used for old
ADB-based
keyboards.

-> Try to use the wscons "wskbd" driver with
device /dev/wskbd . This
should work fine with X on non-root accounts.

-> You need to activate the iBookHacks within the Device
definition
(Option "iBookHacks"). Otherwise the eMac will
crash when exiting X in
NetBSD-3 (or, at the best, get no console back -- which as a
side
effect turns the screen off of the eMac).
Of course these hacks are provided with the in-base XFree86
server.

     -Marco

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Hello,

On Oct 20, 2006, at 11:23, Marco Trillo wrote:

> -> You need to activate the iBookHacks within the
Device definition
> (Option "iBookHacks"). Otherwise the eMac
will crash when exiting X in
> NetBSD-3 (or, at the best, get no console back -- which
as a side
> effect turns the screen off of the eMac).
> Of course these hacks are provided with the in-base
XFree86 server.

That's actually a bug in many XFree86 and X.org drivers -
they're 
notoriously bad at cleaning up after themselves, apparently
everyone 
expects the vgahw module to re-initialize VGA text mode on
exit which 
really doesn't make any sense on a Mac ( or a Sun and many
other 
machines for that matter )
One workaround is to have in-kernel framebuffer drivers
which can 
re-initialize whatever mode was used by the console when X
exits - we 
have several in -current, they only need to be properly
integrated with 
the rest of the wscons framework.

have fun
Michael
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