On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 12:27:20AM +0100, Peter M. Lemmen wrote: > Hello, > > I recently inherited an old PowerBook G3 (Oldworld, I believe. It wouldn't > boot the CD, and BootX is working fine.) and have been installing Debian on > it. It actually went quite well, with only a minor heart-attack when > installing quick, which made the system no longer boot (and me not knowing > the reset key-combination. :-) But I got it working again and am now trying > to configure XFree, which is where I am stuck. > > I have tried using the fbdev, ati and atimisc drivers both from the stable > (4.1.0) and testing (4.2.1) release. I've systematically tried different > values for all options I imagined could have an impact, like using the > kernel framebuffer interface, refresh rates for the screen and removing > driver modules. The results are pretty much all similar. > > atimisc simply dies with a message of no screens found. I assume this is a > wrong driver. > > ati and fbdev let the server start, but usually hang the whole machine with > a black screen. fbdev sometimes lets me kill the server after a while (with > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace), ati always hangs. fbdev also sometimes produces bands > of garbled pixels, but then it always hangs the machine. > > The kernel framebuffer driver itself seems to be working fine. I've not had > any screen problems working in text mode and 'fbi' (a framebuffer image > viewer) also works without problems. > > I use the following kernel arguments with BootX: > video=atyfb:vmode:14,cmode:32,mclk:65 > > I would appreciate any hints on which direction to go from here. >
Take a look at http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2002/debian-powerpc-200207/msg00331.html Re: Linux 2.4 on PowerBook G3 pismo And the thread it's in. Your powerbook may be a lombard or pismo, that would probably be useful to know (I think the lombard has a bronze keyboard). -- "The way the Romans made sure their bridges worked is what we should do with software engineers. They put the designer under the bridge, and then they marched over it." -- Lawrence Bernstein, Discover, Feb 2003
