Hi Stew,
> > 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? I guess I was mostly reacting to the step being missing, since I'm so used to seeing it in the PC version. Will the same people who get stuck in the installer get stuck in runlevel 5? > > 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" Thanks, it's now fixed by editing the text file. > 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. I'll make some time tonight to try your suggestions. Thank you for the help. Bye, Phil
