On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 01:29:02PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Domenica, Giugno 9, 2002, alle 12:41 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt ha > scritto: > > This is probably due to the radeonfb driver trying to set an incorrect > mode on your LCD. This should have been fixed in recent versions of the > driver in my rsync tree, which is why I'm asking you to test. > > As soon as possible (my free time is really limited now) i'm going to > install it. > > btw: to have exactly the same hw configuration is one of the > interesting things in the > apple machines. I wonder why there are not sites maintaining > configuration files like > for Xfree for these machines. Maybe it's simply me, but I didn't find > something like that > anywhere. ibooklinux.net is still referencing old-ibook model hw > features, too. > Someone knows something more?
I recently installed Debian on a PowerBook G4 667 (3. generation, with DVI and Radeon M7), and I ran into some similar problems. After a week or so searching for information and trying various things, I got X working. Basically, this was what I had to do: 1. Install Ben's latest kernel (at the moment, I'm running 2.4.19-pre10-ben0) 2. Find a working modeline for my LCD screen. This thread contains much helpful information: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2002/debian-powerpc-200205/msg00399.html As far as I remember, this was enough to get X running with the fbdev driver, however, to get hw acceleration, 3. Download XFree86 4.2 from http://www.penguinppc.org/~daenzer/XFree86-4.2/ 4. Make /etc/X11/X point to /usr/local/X11R6/bin/XFree86 5. Use 'Driver "radeon"' instead of 'Driver "fbdev"' (if you want accel) 6. Copy /usr/local/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/radeon_dri.so into /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri It's working almost perfectly now. The only problem I've noticed is that the screen becomes garbled some times when switching consoles. It goes away when switching consoles again. I hope this will be helpful. Regards, Håvard Skinnemoen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
