Hello again, In the meantime I downloaded and compiled the kernel 2.4.20-ben9 with the original .config just adding a few necessary modules I needed for my PowerBook G3 (Wallstreet) and got it to work nicely:
1.) The new speed of the system is amazing! 2.) With this kernel I can finally run the ati driver instead of the fbdev driver (which was the only driver able to run on kernel 2.4.18). I just get some 3-5 seconds of "erupting colourful clouds" on my screen when starting the kde environment with startx just before the light grey screen appears. These "clouds" I also recognise when I boot into MacOS X. But here only for a duration of half a second. Are these "clouds" a sign for any destructive possibility? 3.) With this new kernel I can't see any cursor on my black text screen. How do I get my cursor back? It is annoying to guess where the cursor could be and input text on the command line or in pico. 4.) At the moment I try to get the PCMCIA slots to work. I downloaded the pcmcia-cs-3.2.4.tar.gz package from sourceforge.net and am going to compile it into the modules. Do I also need the pcmcia-modules package for that purpose or can I do without? TIA befu > > No the previous kernel was the 2.2.20 kernel that I have on my floppies. > With these floppies I installed the whole system, but wasn't able to run > x-windows (with none of the drivers (ati, fbdev and the 10 others). The most > promising however was the vga driver, but that stuck because it asked for a > Clock line. > ... >> Did fbdev work with the old kernel also? I suspect your new kernel doesn't >> fix the problem but rather found an old way to bypass the problem (Michel: >> does X mangle the PCI resources only with the aty driver, or does this >> happen with fbdev as well?) > > No, the fbdev driver works as the only one only on the 2.4.18 kernel. With > this new kernel the problem was solved.
