On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there. Here is an old-timer coming back to the list. :-) > > Since Apple has no love anymore for people with G3 hardware, I figured > out that the way to go is to dump MacOS X. I have one major issue before > I do that (actually, two, but the other one may have to be dealt with > the kernel developers for the rt2x00 module). > > Anyway, the problem is the following: I have an iBook G3 600MHz Late > 2001 with 12" screen and an ATI Rage Mobility M3 card with 8MB of memory > and I *just* installed sid on this machine. > > I was quite surprised to see a really bad effect on the screen that is > the use of only an area of 800x600 (while the native resolution of this > screen is 1024x768) and the rest of the screen is black at the right and > a mirror image of whatever is on the top of this 800x600 area at the > bottom of the screen. > > This has never happened to me, since the days of using BenH's kernel > (that is, since about the 2.4 era). > > You can see for yourselves the weird problem (which also affects Ubuntu) > at > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/224343 > > (There are two photos of the sad situation at the bottom of the bug > report). > > Is there anybody else with a similar problem here? > > > Thanks in advance, Rogério Brito. > > -- > Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 > http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito > Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Funny, you call it a problem and I call it normal. This is all I've known when installing Debian on my iBook. Except, in my case I didn't get 'a nice big' 800x600 screen, I got a 640x480 screen that I could just barely see enough to login and select a terminal. Anyways, to fix it I do: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg I basically just accept all the defaults and then when it configures the screen I select 'medium' mode 'I think' and then select [EMAIL PROTECTED] Restart X and you're good to go. Next problem? Cheers, /Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
