Using rivafb on new PowerBook G4 12"

2003-12-29 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi alltogether! On my new Powerbook G4 12" I couldn't use the nVidia framebuffer-console with kernel 2.4.23-ben1. I only saw vertical white stripes between booting and the start of gdm or a patchwork image of the X-screen when switching to tty1. The problem was the unknown PCI-ID of th

New Powerbook G4 12"

2003-12-29 Thread Wolfram Quester
Hi alltogether! This patch is against 2.4.23-ben1. With it applied the kernel recognizes my new 12" G4 PowerBook correctly. It changes the line detected as : 287 to detected as : 287 (PowerBook G4 12") in cat /proc/cpuinfo. Wolfram Quester --- /home/wolfi/patches/pmac_feature.c.orig