Re: TiBook X issues

2001-04-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 12:36:39PM -0700, Wilhelm *rafial* Fitzpatrick wrote: > >sorry this won't work, yaboot has no such option `video=' so the > >kernel never sees this. the correct way is: > > Interesting... I certainly believe you, since you would know. There > are number of sample yaboot

Re: TiBook X issues

2001-04-07 Thread Wilhelm *rafial* Fitzpatrick
sorry this won't work, yaboot has no such option `video=' so the kernel never sees this. the correct way is: Interesting... I certainly believe you, since you would know. There are number of sample yaboot configs floating around in the mailing list archives with video=foo, obviously misinfo

Re: TiBook X issues

2001-04-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 04:50:43PM -0700, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote: > On 6 Apr 2001, Jonas M. Meyer wrote: > > > Could someone post a step-bystep tutorial of how to get X running at > > the correct (largest) resolution on a TiBook? > > Well, I can give you a description of my muddled attempts.

Re: TiBook X issues

2001-04-06 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On 6 Apr 2001, Jonas M. Meyer wrote: > Could someone post a step-bystep tutorial of how to get X running at > the correct (largest) resolution on a TiBook? Well, I can give you a description of my muddled attempts. I am running a 2.4.3 kernel I created from the linux-2.4-benh tree at penguinppc.

Re: TiBook X issues

2001-04-06 Thread secret asIAN man
Grant Hollingworth wrote: > You only need video=ofonly for the Debian install. After that, you can > use video=aty128fb. I have append="video=aty128fb" in my yaboot.conf. Ah... I stuffed linux video=ofonly somewhere in my yaboot.conf instead. That works well enough, except that booting to MacOS c

Re: TiBook X issues

2001-04-06 Thread Grant Hollingworth
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 06:41:28PM -0400, Jonas M. Meyer wrote: > Could someone post a step-bystep tutorial of how to get X running at > the correct (largest) resolution on a TiBook? Try using the attached XF86Config. Works for me... > Additionally, and perhaps related, does anyone know how to m

TiBook X issues

2001-04-06 Thread Jonas M. Meyer
Could someone post a step-bystep tutorial of how to get X running at the correct (largest) resolution on a TiBook? Dispite my repeated attempts, and much reading online, I cant seem to get it to even get into X with a working mouse, much less at the right res or colors. I have tried both X 3 a