Color under X 4.0.1 on PowerMac 8600

I just installed Debian PPC on a 8600 the other night. I started with the potatoe CD, and then upgraded to woody so it matches my x86 box. Since this box is an old world mac, I'm using BootX and I have not checked the use no video driver box. I also have not passed any command line options. The

Re: Color under X 4.0.1 on PowerMac 8600

On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 11:35:50PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > Josh Bonczkowski wrote: > > > > I just installed Debian PPC on a 8600 the other night. I started with > > the potatoe CD, and then upgraded to woody so it matches my x86 box. > > Since this box is an old

iBook install and ofboot.b

I'm currently in the middle of an iBook DV (firewire) install and perhaps have hit a snag. I am following the doc written by Hadess on installing on this particular machine. The part that is giving me problems is when it asks to make linux bootable from the hard disk. The doc says to grab a shel

iBook framebuffer

I've been trying to recompile a 2.2.18 kernel that I grabbed from kernel.org. The sites mention that everything was folded back into this version. I want to turn on support for the iBook DV framebuffer (aty128fb). I have turned on the ATI Mach64 and ATI Rage 128 FB support, but the r128 modules f

Re: iBook framebuffer

output from loading up is Using unsupported 800x600 ... __ioremap(): ... fb0: Open Firmware frame buffer device on ... And cat /proc/fb results in 0 OFfb ... Any ideas? Josh On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 05:25:07PM -0800, Matt Brubeck wrote: > On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Josh Bonczkowski wrote: > >

Re: iBook framebuffer

ause of some of my trouble. I'll try it out today and see if it results in anything different. Now I'm on to trying to get X4 running properly on this iBook. I'll go read the old messages and see if it has anything useful on this next topic. Thanks everyone. Josh On Fri,