[K12OSN] Fix for "Indigo" Mac video

Eric Harrison eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us
Sat Mar 26 18:52:51 UTC 2005


On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Eric Harrison wrote:
>
> I tested all of the differences in Jim Kronebusch's XF86Config-4.indigo
> and found that the magic is in setting UseFBDev to true in the video
> driver section (see attached patch).
>
> This does not appear to break the half-dozen Macs I tested on, so
> hopefully we'll be able to just add this to the defaults. I should
> also wrap it in a 'if [ `uname -m` = "ppc" ]' ...
>
> I'll build a new ltsp_ppc package with this change for further
> testing.

I'm making this too hard on myself. The simple solution is to add
this line to the Default section of lts.conf:

 	X_DEVICE_OPTION_01 = "UseFBDev\" \"true"

-Eric




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