Re: New Powerbook 12" + Nvidia problems

2003-11-01 Thread Martin Alfke
Hi, I had the same problem on the 17" PB with NVidia GeForce 440 GO 64M chipset. I found out that XFree86-4.3.99 (that is pre 4.4) supports my chipset. So I made xfree-packages for Debian sid. They are available via apt: deb ftp://ftp.ppcnux.de/pub/Mirrors/ftp.debian.de/xfree86 sid . More info

Re: New Powerbook 12" + Nvidia problems

2003-11-01 Thread Graham Percival
On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 01:14:41 + David Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just got a brand new G4 powerbook with the Nvidia graphics chipset. The 1Ghz one? With an Nvidia Go5200? > After much hackery, I've got Debian Woody and XFree86 4.3 (built from source > - > hacked files to get nv dr

Re: New Powerbook 12" + Nvidia problems

2003-10-31 Thread pander
Hi, I have exactly the same. I used to have unstable distro and it worked great but now downgraded to testing and have the same misery. What we need to get in order first is the sources.list and the preferences file and get the correct commands to install the XF which works (might be the cas

New Powerbook 12" + Nvidia problems

2003-10-31 Thread David Pye
Hi guys :) I've just got a brand new G4 powerbook with the Nvidia graphics chipset. After much hackery, I've got Debian Woody and XFree86 4.3 (built from source - hacked files to get nv driver built). startx now doesn't fail, but what appears isn't even remotely usable - it's a green/red dot m