In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leif Halvard Silli) wrote:
> Hello -- is the 'dual scan passive matrix' displays unsupported sofar in any > PPC distribution? Will woody make any difference for this? > > I tried YDL 2.0, which claim to support all WallStreet PowerBoog G3's. But > during install I found that I could only read the what was happening > (regardless of whether I used X-installer or Text installer) if I connected > my PB to an external montior and looked at that monitor instead of the > internal display. But of course, when the installer came to X-install, it > stopped any how so... > > This made me look into other distros [and from what I have read, I have > almost been converted to Debian]. Just before writing this mail I tried to > boot into LinuxPPC as well as into Debian. THe result was the same on both: > a splitted unreadable screan. Only the black and white boot start up view, > was readable... > > I have found a note on the web about problem with dual scan on THinkPad > 750c. See <http://peipa.essex.ac.uk/tp-linux/#X> Perhaps it can give someone > a clue about how to deal with dual scans... Though the problem here seems > not to only be with X as even the text installer creates the same problems. > > Of the G3-powerbooks, the 233mhz wallstreet is the onlyone wiht dual scan > display. There is also one version of the 2400 PowerBook which has dual > scan. LinuxPPC claims to support both the 2400's and the G3's. But since > dual scan is relatively seldom on the PCI-macs, I fear that they have been > left out. The rest of the dual scan power books are also few and counts for > pb's which generally aren't considered to work with Linux (like 1400 > series). > > Does someone have an idea what needs to be done? Can I type something into > the command line in BootX? Or is it undoable? Perhaps I must donate my > precious PB to a developer...? Perhaps I *must* try BSD or OS X? I hope > not... I didn't have any trouble installing debian (potato) on my 2400c, but I don't remember exactly what I used for the BootX arguments. You might try video=ofonly to use the built-in OpenFirmware video. -- Michael Blakeley [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.blakeley.com/> Performance Analysis for Internet Technologies
