On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 10:36:01AM -0400, Mark T. Valites wrote: > I recently did a woody net install on my first generation tibook (booting > the installer from OF...). I never had luck too much luck with the X in > debian, but it worked fine for me in yellow-dog 2.1 & 2.2. But since I > would much rather run woody than yd, I started playing with it last night, > and was able to get a little further into it. I can get some sort of X to > start with the fbdev driver, but only 8 bit color. 15 & 16 croak on me. > I noticed that the yellow dog conf was using the ati driver, but I can't > get any color depth to work with X in debian. > > So I figured maybe my kernel was missing something. i386 kernel compiling > doesn't bother me in the least, but I'm not too comfortable with ppc > hardware, so I grabbed a Ben H. kernel from ppckernel. I also copied the > 2.4.18xxx kernel & modules from the yd side over & set both up. However, > when I booted either of them, I had no keyboard input. (I have no kernel > parameters for either through append in yaboot.conf...) >
Most likely the linux keycodes change: www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/keycodes -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
