On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 15:38 -0600, Juan Pablo Mendoza wrote: > Hi, > > I recently started working in a new company and they assigned me a brand > new Powerbook 12" (PowerBook6,8) 1.5GHz with a (f*cking) nvidia NV34M > GeForce FX Go5200. > > I installed debian unstable and have some problems with it: > > Random lines flickering in the screen when i use the keyboard in Xorg > (tried the default Xorg from sid and the experimental 6.9 packages) it's > really anoying and I'm afraid they are damaging the panel in someway.
It's probably not damaging the panel... Do you use an fbdev driver like rivafb ? Does it work better if you don't (use offb, that is video=ofonly on the kernel command line) ? Also make sure your X.org is configured to use the "nv" driver. > Funny thing Xorg works perfectly fine in Ubuntu, probably a patch they > included, I will try to track that down later today. > > dmasound doesn't work, just the snd-powermac alsa driver and that gives > a very ugly sound output :-(. What do you mean by "very ugly" ? snd-powermac generally works better than dmasound. > Airport doesn't work (surprise!) but i hope the free driver will be > working soon!. Yah, hopefully. > The most annoying thing for me: The laptop doesn't suspend at all, I > still have my old ibook g3 with a radeon m7 and the sleep support is a > feature I'm very attached too. I'm a experienced C developer (no kernel > experience however) and would like to try to work on this, but I need > some pointers (Ben? :-), as I understad the problem with the sleep > support is the rivafb module not supporting the resume operation. Is > there any documentation on the chip ? refence code ? ways to reverse > enginer the os x driver behavior? (tools and methods). I would really, > really, really love to have this working. The problem is that there are no specs whatsoever from nvidia, nothing at all, and the MacOS X driver afaik isn't an "ndrv" (thus can't be "spied" using my old ndrver tool) Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
