Jens Schmalzing wrote:
I did get X going on my PB17 once. I thought I had got to the bottom
of it. Now it wont work and it is the exact same XF86Config-4.
Which 17" Powerbook? Among other things, Apple changed the video
hardware with the last model upgrade. My 1.33GHz 17" Powerbook is
running nicely with radeonfb from a 2.6.0-test7-ben0 kernel and
XFree86 4.3.99 from Michel's dri-trunk packages.
It is the 1GHz PowerBook.
I wonder why they changed the video hardware?
Any known problems with the nVidia GeForce4 440 Go ???
I guess MacOS-X works OK so I can't blame the hardware.
Maybe they changed for price and/or performance reasons ???
I'm using Debian unstable version of XF86. This seems recent enough.
It detects the video hardware OK and "X -probeonly" does not report any
errors in the log file.
I eventually want to go to the 2.6 kernels but I think it is a bit too
early for me at this stage. It might be worth a try though just to see
what happens.
I also notice when trying to use Mac-On-Linux that there are some
video mode files.
Does XF86 use any of these files???
No. Most of these files are used by molvconfig to set up the mode
database that mol uses. And /etc/fb.modes is used by fbset.
I've always been confused by the Frame Buffer stuff.
Should I be using frame buffers or not?
Do I have a choice??
Many thanks,
Brendan Simon.
