On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 09:00:34PM +0100, Luis Sanjuan wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 04:12:17PM +0000, Dan Field wrote: > > Hi list. > > > > I've been playing with this for a few days now but only really got > > somewhere near working today. > > > > I currently have a stable booting (via yaboot in the bootsector) > > 2.4.21benh kernel and a 2.6.0-test11-benh kernel (built from rsync > > today). > > > > I compiled up XFree86 4.3.1 from the stable tarballs at xfree86.org > > without many problems but from what I've read in other posts, it sounds > > like this will only work with a 2.6 kernel. Is that correct? Anyway. > > 2.6.0-test11 is booting up ok now but the framebuffer is a little odd. > > X works fine here with last benh kernel and xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk > from Michel Daenzer. In order to get this package, edit your > /etc/apt/source.list adding the following line: > > deb http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-sid ./ > > > > I can't quite describe the problem but it involves what I can only > > describe as black scanlines appearing and making the framebuffer > > flicker. 2.4.21benh has no such issues. > > Exactly the same here, but it's fixed as Jens says. If you haven't yet > access to startx, you can boot meanwhile with video=ofonly or add this > line to your yaboot.conf > > append="video=ofonly" > > > > > I was just wondering if anyone else was using the same setup out there > > and how far they had gotten. > > * X: works fine with radeonfb for console and "UseFBDev" for X. > > * Sound: works with alsa. Only preliminary test. > > * Ethernet: works fine. > > * Airport Extreme: forget it ;-)
Can one of the older non Extreme airport card be used in one of the newer ibook/powerbooks ? Friendly, Sven Luther
