OpenSUSE ruling my eMac!

Yes, it worked! I’ve managed to install OpenSUSE on my eMac.

The installation was a breeze! I had only only problem installing the boot loader, but managed to fix that too using the instruction documented here.

See it in action!


OpenSUSE on my eMac

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4 Responses to “OpenSUSE ruling my eMac!”

  1. Nathan Says:
    May 27th, 2007 at 12:00 pm

    Sorry, I know this is an old post. But I have an eMac also and I’m trying to get opensuse 10.2 to work on it. Did you have to do anything special with the monitor settings or ATI drivers? After everything loads up, I only get a blank screen instead of the X environment.

  2. gopal Says:
    May 28th, 2007 at 11:39 am

    As mentioned in my post, I did not have any problems with getting X to work.

    That being said, it is very easy to get the HorizSync and VertRefresh for your monitor from it’s manual. Get it, and run “X -configure”, and add the following lines under the “Monitor” section and it should work.

    Section Monitor
    # ...
    HorizSync xxx
    VertRefresh yyy
EndSection

    There is another way for this — you can download the proprietary binary drivers from ATI I guess.

    Check with OpenSuSE forums on this.

  3. Pablo Says:
    July 3rd, 2007 at 5:17 am

    It’s works with my Fedora PPC on my eMac at 1280×960!!!
    the part very important is Section “Monitor”

    #/etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
    #
    # This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
    # values from the debconf database.
    #
    # Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf(5) manual page.
    # (Type “man xorg.conf” at the shell prompt.)
    #
    # This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
    # if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
    # package.
    #
    # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
    # again, run the following command:
    # sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

    Section “InputDevice”
    Identifier “Generic Keyboard”
    Driver “kbd”
    Option “CoreKeyboard”
    Option “XkbModel” “pc105″
    Option “XkbLayout” “it”
    Option “XkbOptions” “lv3:lwin_switch”
    EndSection

    Section “InputDevice”
    Identifier “Configured Mouse”
    Driver “mouse”
    Option “CorePointer”
    Option “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
    Option “Protocol” “ImPS/2″
    Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5″
    Option “Emulate3Buttons” “true”
    EndSection

    Section “Device”
    Identifier “ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200]”
    Driver “radeon”
    BusID “PCI:0:16:0″
    Option “UseFBDev” “true”
    EndSection

    Section “Monitor”
    Identifier “iMac”
    Option “DPMS”
    HorizSync 71-73
    VertRefresh 70-140
    ModeLine “1280×960″ 122.2 1280 1336 1440 1696 960 961 964 1002 +hsync +vsync -csync
    EndSection

    Section “Screen”
    Identifier “Default Screen”
    Device “ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200]”
    Monitor “iMac”
    DefaultDepth 24
    SubSection “Display”
    Depth 1
    Modes “1024×768″
    EndSubSection
    SubSection “Display”
    Depth 4
    Modes “1024×768″
    EndSubSection
    SubSection “Display”
    Depth 8
    Modes “1024×768″
    EndSubSection
    SubSection “Display”
    Depth 15
    Modes “1024×768″
    EndSubSection
    SubSection “Display”
    Depth 16
    Modes “1024×768″
    EndSubSection
    SubSection “Display”
    Depth 24
    Modes “1024×768″
    EndSubSection
    EndSection

    Section “ServerLayout”
    Identifier “Default Layout”
    Screen “Default Screen”
    InputDevice “Generic Keyboard”
    InputDevice “Configured Mouse”
    EndSection

    Section “DRI”
    Mode 0666
    EndSection

  4. Pablo Says:
    July 3rd, 2007 at 5:21 am

    Please gopal email my post to Nathan… if you have your email!!! :-)

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