> 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.
If you decide to try 2.6 kernels, use BenH's 2.6.0-test7 and apply my rivafb patch. Plain 2.6 didn't work on the Geforce 4 MX, at least. Michael