On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Phil Lavigna wrote:
> > Hi, > > Just completed an Expert installation with Beta1 CD1 on a PowerBook G4 > 550MHz (Radeon); here's my report: > > After booting from the Installation CD, I tried various boot options > (radeon, riva, tdfx, aty), but DrakX was always split in half wrapped around > the monitor in a weird gold color. I didn't want to use the text-based > install, but was able to complete a graphical installation even with the > funky display. > Hey I tried ;^) > When it was time to Configure X, I chose XFree4. The installer didn't ask > to test the configuration setting, so I answered "No" to the question about > automatically starting X. > I intentionally suppressed the test, as I found on some machines it never comes back from the test, leaving you stuck in the installer. Someone else mentioned the lack of it too. Do you think I should turn it back on? > The installation then completed normally, and Linux booted up without any > problems or errors. I was happily surprised that after typing "startx", KDE > started up nicely : ) > WooHoo! that's good news. > The display of the desktop hangs about 1" off the right side of the > monitor. The left side of the screen has approx. 1" of black space running > down the depth of the display, and the right side of the desktop is missing > approx. 1" that is being cut off of the right edge. > > The fonts on the KDE desktop look a bit distorted. It appears that the > video (1024) is being scaled to fit this machine's wide screen (1152). But > maybe the installer had a 1152x768 setting that I didn't notice because of > the garbled display. > Yes, there should have been an offering like this: Apple; TiPowerBook 1152x768; 0; 30.0-100.0; 50.0-160.0 You might get X working correctly from xfdrak of manually using those settings in XFConfig-4, If you still have the shift, you can play with "fbset -left some_number" > Other than the video problems, the beta looks quite nice so far. KDE's > startup sound was nice and clear while entering the desktop (even though a > message was displayed that says "Error while initializing the sound driver: > device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Device or resource busy) > The sound server will continue, using the null output device)." > Yep - x86 has been fighting the same prob - seems to be something to do with the new menu, which seems to be fixed now on x86, so hopefully that will trickle over to PPC too. > Please let me know if you need any more info. > Phil, I'd be curious of a couple of things: I've seen conflicting information as to whether the option is video=radeon or video=radeonfb also it may need to be appended with a mode seeting, ie: 1152x768-60, or whatever Then I may need to do something to convince Xpmac to run in that mode, if it can. Also I'd be curious if the installed kernel, which seems to work, would fare any better substituted for the install kernel. You could test this by making a yaboot entry, similar to the ones on the CD, on your hard drive, and using your live kernel instead of the one on the CD. It would be sweet if we could get graphical install running properly on the TiBook. Thanks Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
