ibook 900 startx failure

X does not want to play. I have been fighting this for days and getting nowhere. If anyone can help I would be most grateful. The first thing to mention is that under OSX the machine had been persuaded to do dual head as detailed by: http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/ibook_e.html . Having bee

Re: ibook 900 startx failure

> > So in the XF86Config-4 file I set PCI to 00:10:0 > > lspci gives HEX output... 0x10 is actually decimal 16, so try 00:16:0 :-) Ah. OK then. In that case my problem is that the display dies at some stage during the process of starting X. I get the same result by commenting out the BusID lin

Re: ibook 900 startx failure

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:25:29 +0200 Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On some iBooks, the DRI only works with AGP 4x for some reason. Try > disabling it by not loading the "dri" X server; if that helps, you'll > have to fix your AGP setup if you want it. > Sorry to be ignorant but what e

Power management

First, thanks for all the advice on other issues, I now have a working ibook. My problem now is merely that I can not get the thing to standby or suspend in the way I would expect on an x86 laptop, I have installed apm but cannot seem to call it in a way which succeeds. Searching the internet is

Preemptive ALSA question

Final job before I go away. I understand that OSS does not support the ibook's microphone. Presumably my ibook 900 has an internal microphone? I also understand that ALSA does. Is this the case and if so should I expect a trouble free installation by just selecting alsa-base within aptitude an

[OT] FAO list admin

Some time ago I accidentally posted a message from my main email account, this is now online in the archives and as a result that account is receiving spam. In the hope of limiting the damage would it be possible to remove the message from the archives or corrupt the address therein? Who should

Re: [OT] FAO list admin

To actually get any replys, I *expect* you to send emails with a valid sender address. So please, go, correctly configure your email system to tar-pit the senders of SPAM and/or get a properly configured spam filter into your local delivery. I'm sorry, I was asking a one off _favour_. This

Newbie ibook sarge install

First, hello. I'm new to Apple hardware, newish to debian and moderately competent with Linux. I'm not feeling very competent atm however. The system is an ibook 900Mhz. I am trying to install Debian testing as the only OS using the boot CD and a network install. i have at least one problem but