On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 11:32:29AM -0700, Jim McLoughlin wrote: > Hi folks > > Just got Debian woody up and running dual boot on my tiBook (DVI 667 > rev C, 1280x854, mobility radeon 7500). I have read through the > archives but still can't figure out exactly what I need to do to:
I have got the same two weeks ago. I will put a web page about my debian config (I hope to do that tonight but can't promise). > - get better power/thermal mgmt going - it runs extremely hot with the > default kernel, hopefull this will help cool things off. With the default woody kernel the laptop was very hot quickly (scary) but everything seems fine since I have installed the last benh kernel. For that I have used the default config (the one coming with the benh source. I have since changed the ide-cd option from yes to module to be able to use ide-scsi (I have not tried yet). I have also removed radeon.o and r128.o to use the xfree stuff from michael (more below). > - setup X properly so I can use windowmaker I can send you my XConfig but can't help you with Windowmaker because I am an happy gnome2 user (from debian/experimental). > I'm not clear on which of Branden or Michael's XFree86 packages I > should use (both?), whether they require that I replace my kernel > first, whether I need to have sid installed to upgrade these thing > properly, etc. I have first installed X4.2 from branden but was not able do get something working then I have installed the deb from michael and got a good X config. I have since compiled from source the dri-trunk stuff from michael (after removing readeon.o and r128.o from the kernel), added the "pre-install radeon agpgart" line (check the friday archive) and I have now accelerated 3D. > I tried building benh's latest kernel, but am not familiar with many of > the options, and am not clear on which gcc version I should be using > (2.95.x?, can I use 3.2 instead?). And the package available via > apt-cache search seems old (2.4.18 circa 3/2002). I have scene some > kernel config files floating around, but many are for older revision > tiBooks, and may not have the same settings. Build your own as described above, and as a good debian user use the kernel-package to do it (make-kpkg ...) (I will describe that on my page). > If anyone who has configured the same model tiBook could give me a more > definitive list of steps to take (kernel first, which xfree to use, > which modeline to use (can I copy the xfconfig examples directly?), > etc) in getting things online, I would be grateful. I know this comes > up often, I just couldn't figure out the proper path to take here. Hope this help, more are to come with the page I hope to publish tonight. The missing features currently for me are: . suspend/resume (apparently there is a lack of doc from the supposedly linux frendly ati) . sound in mol with jaguar Christophe > cheers > > Jim M > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later. --Mary Bly
