On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 01:20, Francis Pressland wrote: > > I tried updating the kernel using rsync to get the enh-kernel tree. I managed > to > complile a stock kernel withoutchanging any settings in menuconfig, but this > results in completely useless keyboard after rebooting. I tried using the us > keyboard as default on a woody install because I read somewhere that non US > keyboards caused problems, but got the same result when I compiled the kernel. > > So my first question is, how can I upgrade to the latest kernel and have my > german keyboard work?
Have you read http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/keycodes ? > AFTER giving up on the kernel for the time being, I decided to try and get the > XFree86 installed to work with the standard woody kernel. After a lot of > fiddling looking for the tilde symbol, I mamnaged to add the link to > Daenzer's X > installation in my apt sources.list and installed them without a problem, > however after doing a startx, all I got was a black screen with a blurred > white > horizonal line about an inch from the bottom of my screen! This persisted > after > re-booting. > > I used 40-40 as horizontal snc and 40-120 as vertical, which I believe are the > correct settings for my 15" 1280x854 screen, but I may hae that wron I > suppose! /usr/share/doc/xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk/examples/XF86Config-4.radeon should basically work, but you may need a recent kernel with working radeonfb. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
