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sk: appreciate the notes attached, unfortunately it is still "Greek" to me in terms of the nuts and bolts of actually doing those notes via command line . . . . I do have an OSX partition running with the 11 installed in another partition which is now without GUI display or X.

But, in terms of my installation, JD did give the code for getting the xserver-xorg-video-nv but, as I said before it came back as "package not found." And since I didn't get passed that part I didn't get to what looked like also something with nouveau driver. So, I'm under the impression that everything is there for 11 except the display, since I can get to a TTY window and run commands now. I was wondering whether I should try to get the imac8 xorg file again and try to see if that will work now that the new 3.1 kernel is installed?? That was what ended the GUI display the first time I tried it, but perhaps now with an updated kernel it might work?? Nothing to lose but 3 or 4 hours of download time, and then there is no guarantee that it will be any better than what I have now--if your recent G3 installation experience requiring lots of command line manipulation to get it somewhat done has any relation to my G4iMac . . . ?????? The ibook went very smoothly compared to the iMac . . . .

e.e.p.

eep: output of

please

what exact machine you have ? Link in everymac.com please.

JD: Thanks very kindly for this . . . this looks like exactly what I have:

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/stats/imac_800_fp.html

Then I ran the command as single user:



But, didn't know how to get from the TTY to a way to copy/paste the output, but it looks like the same as on my iBook . . . wheezy/katya, there were 7 lines.
1. deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/wheezy main
2. " " " " /wheezy main non-free contrib
3. deb-src http: " " /wheezy main non-free contrib
4. MintPPC repository
5. deb http://mintppc.org/repository katya main
6. security.debian/wheezy updates main contrib non-free
7. deb-src http:// security/wheezy/updates main contrib non-free

Does that look about right? If there is a way to copy paste from command line or something else please let me know, but I think that gives you the idea. Thanks for the help.

e.e.p.

Looks like you're missing the leading "deb " on line 6.

sw: OK, thanks for that post, I'm not sure if that's because of my own abbreviations in typing out what was there, or whether on that "security.debian/wheezy" line there was indeed no "deb" . . . and yet there should be one. Like I said, I don't know how to "send" or whatever, the results of that exact "cat /etc/sources.list?????" command to somewhere where I could then copy/paste it to an email or to this forum . . . since there is no GUI on that partition in the iMac . . . not enough Linux chops. Can I email the list through some kind of command line command????

So, I would have to reboot into the TTY to see if there is no "deb" as I think I was more concerned with the end of the line data, but if there should be a "deb" would that create the problem of "no package found" when trying to get the "xorg-xserver-video-nv" package or would it make the display go away when I tried to add the "imac8" xorg.conf file??? And if so, then could I edit that list in the TTY command line window and that would solve the issues??

e.e.p.

OK, I just checked my other post where I ran the same /etc/apt/sources.list command in my iBook, and I see that, yes, there should be a "deb" in front of the line, but I'm pretty sure that I just didn't type it out. BBBuuuuTTTTTTT, now that I can see what it's supposed to look like I can run the command again tonight/tomorrow and then compare it to my iBook output . . . and if its the same I'll post back. I just don't quite get why all the other lines would be more or less correct and then that one line would choose to not put the "deb"??? I didn't tweak the sources list or do anything that would require knowledge . . . I just let the installer do its thing . . . and then I tried to add the xorg.conf file . . . that's it.

e.e.p.

I ran the command in TTY window and as I thought it was exactly the same as when I ran it in the iBook recently . . . the "deb" is there . . . . I rebooted and while trying to post this the iMac I got an error message about the "X server is disabled would you like to see a report? And I clicked OK and got a page of data, which I hand wrote out . . . I can post it later if it seems relevant. Main thing is the sources list is the say as my working version of 11 in my iBook.

e.e.p.

I would be interested in:

and

JD:


I tried to run these commands in the iBook to see what the ideal outcome should look like so maybe I could copy/paste it, but I didn't need to set the xorg.conf file in the iBook o it gave me "no such file or directory in the iBook.

In the iMac that I'm working to get together when I ran that command alone exactly as you have it posted it either did nothing or got a "permission denied" . . . I don't know what any of these commands are doing or supposed to do . . . but when I ran "cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf" I got a big "script"??? printing out on the TTY terminal, again, I don't know how to get any of these "shells" or "screens" to print to email or anything since I'm just in command line, I couldn't get the list to scroll back up using the arrow keys or the tab key, but there was a list that said "option" on the left side and then stuff like "NoAccel" and then <Bool> Or something like that on the right and the list went through a number of options, like ShadowFB, UseFBDev, Rotate. And it showed the Vendor name and video card as [GeForce4Mx w/ AGP8x; Bus ID-PCI:0:16:0. And then toward the bottom was Section "Screen" Identifier Screen 0"

When I then entered "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" I got also a long print out, no idea how to "capture" that information and/or do anything to forward it to anywhere. Toward the bottom was the line "Load module "nv" . . . Failed to load "nv" module does not exist. No drivers available. Fatal server error: no screens found. Check the log file at /var/log/Xorg.0.log for additional information." . . . which is what I thought I was doing by entering that command???

Again, I have handwritten out the contents of the error window that said "Xserver has been disabled, would you like to see a report?" with tabs for <Yes> or <No> at the bottom. It has the "xorg-server" number with a guy's name after it "2:1.11.2.902-1 (Cyril Brulebois <kiki@debian.org)

Would any more of that Xserver error report be relevant for me to add?? It has the "current operating system" and Kernel command line root number, etc???????

e.e.p.

cat prints the output of a file, usually a text file. Try running those command with nano in place of cat, but do not change anything. Then you can scroll with the arrow keys. To exit nano you use ctrl-x. It wil then ask you to save changes, type n, and then enter. This will discard any accidental changes.