--- Stew Benedict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Should I do install-fbdev and then continue with the graphicall install? Will that then be used as my graphics card? Or should I just insert fbdev in the /etc/X11/Xsession config files? > > also XFdrake does not launch. > > Doesn't run at all? I thought it could be run in > text mode. That was me. I forgot to run it as root. XFdrake just lets me edit the res., etc. but when ever I test I always get to the same hangup. How do I exit the test? > 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. X rootless on OSX is nice. But you are still running a bunch of layers besides X. I was thinking of installing Darwin on my Debian partition and then build my X system from scratch. Then I realized that Darwin co$t$. Thanks, Jack __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
