> I am referring to a thread, which was diskussed in January 2002 last. > (see here: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2002/debian-powerpc-200201/msg00476.html) > > > It was about the problem with iBooks 500 (ATI r128 graphics) which did > not provide the right timings on VGA-Output. So VGA-Out is useless.
Someone recently posted his findings on this to linuxppc-dev. IIRC some more chip registers did need to be tweaked, not sure the issue has been resolved yet. So yes, that's being worked on, but there might not be a proper solution yet. Michael