Re: X wont start on ibook

2004-07-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 10:29:16AM +1200, Paul William said > Hi Sam, > > Good to see I am not the *only* one with these problems :) Did you apply > both those kernel patches, as they are for 2.6.6? I am busy compiling > 2.6.7 now but will apply those patches if needed. The radeon support in 2.

Re: X wont start on ibook

2004-07-04 Thread Paul William
It was using the radeon framebuffer. It seemed that X wasn't upgraded, which is odd, so I apt removed it, clean the cache, and reinstalled and xfree86 4.3 works Thanks *so* much for your help. Cheers Paul Sam Halliday wrote: Paul William wrote: Good to see I am not the *only* one with t

Re: X wont start on ibook

2004-07-03 Thread Sam Halliday
Paul William wrote: > Good to see I am not the *only* one with these problems :) Did you apply > both those kernel patches, as they are for 2.6.6? I am busy compiling > 2.6.7 now but will apply those patches if needed. did you also remember to set the kernel option video=radeonfb instead of v

Re: X wont start on ibook

2004-07-02 Thread Paul William
Hi Sam, Good to see I am not the *only* one with these problems :) Did you apply both those kernel patches, as they are for 2.6.6? I am busy compiling 2.6.7 now but will apply those patches if needed. Thanks again, Paul Sam Halliday wrote: Paul William wrote: Which Post? I can't seem to f

Re: X wont start on ibook

2004-07-02 Thread Sam Halliday
Paul William wrote: > Which Post? I can't seem to find it at > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/06/threads.html#00026 there is a 2nd page there... http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/06/msg00649.html

Re: X wont start on ibook

2004-07-01 Thread Paul William
Which Post? I can't seem to find it at http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/06/threads.html#00026 Cheers Paul Sam Halliday wrote: Paul William wrote: Mine is also 0:16:0 :( is your iBook relatively new? does lspci reveal a Radeon Mobility 9200 M9+ if so... check out the posts i

Re: X wont start on ibook

2004-07-01 Thread Paul William
I only bought the ibook a few weeks ago. Only took a few weeks to get sick of osx / miss my debian desktop ;) Sam Halliday wrote: Paul William wrote: Mine is also 0:16:0 :( is your iBook relatively new? does lspci reveal a Radeon Mobility 9200 M9+ if so... check out the posts i made las

Re: X wont start on ibook

2004-07-01 Thread Sam Halliday
Paul William wrote: > Mine is also 0:16:0 :( is your iBook relatively new? does lspci reveal a Radeon Mobility 9200 M9+ if so... check out the posts i made last week as i encountered and fixed this... turns out you need the use the radeonfb (not the OS one) on bootup, and that requires the 2.6.

Re: X wont start on ibook

2004-07-01 Thread Paul William
Mine is also 0:16:0 :( James Tappin wrote: On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 16:37:35 +1200 Paul William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: PW> Hi all, PW> PW> My first post on this list :) I am following the instructions at PW> http://seb.france.free.fr/linux/ibookG4/iBookG4-howto-5.html#ss5.2 PW> PW> to get X

Re: X wont start on ibook

2004-07-01 Thread James Tappin
On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 16:37:35 +1200 Paul William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: PW> Hi all, PW> PW> My first post on this list :) I am following the instructions at PW> http://seb.france.free.fr/linux/ibookG4/iBookG4-howto-5.html#ss5.2 PW> PW> to get X going on my ibook G4 (1ghz). X gives me the fol

X wont start on ibook

2004-06-30 Thread Paul William
Hi all, My first post on this list :) I am following the instructions at http://seb.france.free.fr/linux/ibookG4/iBookG4-howto-5.html#ss5.2 to get X going on my ibook G4 (1ghz). X gives me the following error: (--) Assigning devices with no BusID to primary device (EE) No devices detected Fat