On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Crazy Johnson wrote:

> G4Ti. Did mandrake automatically configure this for
> me? I said "install-radeon" to launch the graphicall
> install and like others was not able to use the
> graphicall installer. Of course "install-text" worked
> fine. 
> 

If it's a newer one you've hit the same issue as others.
Changing to "fbdev" for driver may give you some X.  8.2 came out almost a
year ago, before the newere TiBooks. Even now radeon support is shakey on
x86 also.

> I was looking through the /etc/X11/Xsession config
> files and I think it has me down for a Radeon card.
> The installer also had an exact match for my screen
> and rez as well. I tried a number of different
> resolutions, etc. when I tried the install again. 
> 
> also XFdrake does not launch. 
> 

Doesn't run at all?  I thought it could be run in text mode.

> Thats what I thought to begin with. The graphicall
> installer was having trouble with the video driver, so
> I guess that was what was happening with X (though I
> run X over OSX fine). 
> 

Apple has certain advantages, since they own the hardware platform :P
We Linux folk have to rely on someone with the talent getting some
hands-on time with the new hardware generally.  I'm guessing X over OSX is
much like Xnest, where it's not really driving the hardware itself,
although I don't have OSX to know for sure.
 
Stew Benedict

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