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[Jim Price <d1version@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Some more details:

I tried to identify the graphics hardware on the iMac G3 using dmesg 
(which is quick compared to something like lshw) and got the following:

$ dmesg |grep -i rage
[    0.654002] Using unsupported 1024x768 ATY,Rage128k at 94008000, 
depth=8, pitch=1024
[    0.686744] fb0: Open Firmware frame buffer device on 
/pci@f0000000/ATY,Rage128k@10

This looks to me like ATY has been used instead of ATI! I need to 
investigate further to see what the implications of this are, but my 
guess at this point is that the second of those two lines would be an 
indication that the frame buffer mods in the xorg.conf we have been 
using would be needed  to make things work. I don't like the 
"unsupported" in the first line either. It also looks like this is a 
pretty longstanding bug if the googling I've done is any indication. In 
the meantime, it's late here so I'm off to bed.

--
JimP

On 06/03/12 23:14, Jim Price wrote:
> Phill,
>
> I would think that the argument would be that we are not changing any 
> features in the installed distribution, but changing the install CD to 
> cope with some hardware issues discovered in testing. The xorg.conf 
> included would only end up on the user's machine if they have an iMac 
> G3, and it will just fail to work without it (or similar). We're only 
> in feature freeze, and having a working X is a pretty important 
> feature to fix, not a new one we're adding. I'll just check to see if 
> I can come up with a way of determining that the machine is a G3 iMac, 
> and that could be a way of presenting the fix for inclusion in an 
> install script somewhere rather than being a bolt-on after the user is 
> dumped to the command prompt.