No X on PowerMac G5

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On Nov 3, 2013, at 4:30 PM, Christoph Grüll wrote:

> Hello there :)
>
> Recently installed FreeBSD on my PowerMac G5 7,3 2.0DP and just wow,
> it works great!
> But not X ...
>
> I read several guides, tried to use vesa instead of ati (ATI 9600),
> tried to turn off AllowEmptyInput and UseFBDev, etc, nothing really
> work. Build and rebuild X with and without HAL support. I always get
> the same error. Here's the thread showing my work:
> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=238735

VESA won't work on PPC since you (presumably) don't have a PC BIOS on  
the card. ATI should work just fine, though, so long as you set  
"UseFBDev" to "Off" in your xorg.conf file. Could you try with X - 
verbose 9 -logverbose 9 and send the result if it still doesn't work?
-Nathan