I had those same problems using XFree from Mandrake 8.2b1; I went to SuSe's page and copy the Modeline's from there for 800x600 for the ibook to work. Set everything up to use 800x600 at 15bits and X was happy.I have never use Xpmac on this first generation iBook (blue). Now, sometimes when I shut down the screen went garble, or X would use 100% of the CPU and I had to SSH from another machine to kill it (key combo doesn't work on my ibook to kill X). I got tired of seeing this happening all by itself, so since I had already recompile the kernel using the source from Tuxppc.org, I just went and got the source straight from ftp.xfree.org and compiled that. It works beautifully. Same settings as before... I'm waiting for Mandrake to get X working again so that I can re-install the RPMs and see what happens... If it doesn't work I would just 'make install' X using XFree binary (the one I compiled). Of course, not all my problems have been solved. Sometimes when I shutdown the computer and then turn it on later, I get a garble screen that doesn't go away unless I boot in MacOS and then reboot in Linux... I'm trying to figure out why. I am sure there is some buffer somewhere that is not being reset; I just don't know how to fix that.
On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 19:10, DL Sanders wrote: > Funny thing here ... I (again since 8.0) have a really twisted X... I looked at some >older posts where it was said that some older iBooks had issues and that no XFree >release worked for them.. that the only option was Xpmac.. rrrrr. wrong.... Again I >have OSX and have had SuSE 7.1 and 7.3 running on my OC'd blueberry iBook all of >which have no problem running X ... I bring this up because once again... I am having >serious problems with X and may have to pass up again on Mandrake PPC :o(... > > If anybody knows what is happening let me know so I can resolve this and keep MDK on >this machine.. PLEASE ;o) > > This is what I know... when installing it insists that I am running a >powerbook(display) with a Rage Mobility M... or R.. can't recall... but I am running >an iBook(display) with a Rage Mobility L... when I change those settings I lose X >alltogether.. bummer... the best I have been able to do is leave the defaults and >tweak the freqs but at best I still have serious chopping and streaks ... bigger >bummer ;o) > > If anybody knows why/ or what I missed here.. just let me know.. > -- > > Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org > > > Powered by Outblaze -- ----)(----- Luis Mondesi System Administrator/Web developer LatinoMixed.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux: the operating system with a CLUE... Command Line User Environment". (seen in a posting in comp.software.testing)
