On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Christian Walther wrote:

> No, unfortunately 24 or 32 is not supported by the fbdev driver. At install
> time, I chose 15 and later changed it to 16 (and I was astonished about the
> huge difference that extra green bit makes...)
> 

OK, may be time to rebuild the installer with new XFree.

> >> o The installer didn't autodetect my airport card, and in the driver list
> >> that appears when you answer "Yes" to the "Do you have another ethernet
> >> interface" question, I didn't find anything that looked like an airport
> >> driver.
> > 
> > If you care to do another install, this could be tested, or perhaps on
> > your live system:
> > 
> > list_modules.pm, line 17:
> > 
> > if_(arch() =~ /ppc/, qw(mace bmac gmac)),
> > 
> > becomes 
> > 
> > if_(arch() =~ /ppc/, qw(mace bmac gmac airport)),
> > 
> > On the live system it's in /usr/lib/libDrakX/list_modules.pm.
> > drakconnect should go through similar motions as the installer routine.
> > If you could test this I can readily make that change.  I don't have
> > airport.
> 
> With this change made, I can now choose airport from the list (with
> drakconnect on the live system). Additionally, if I change line 89 of
> /usr/lib/libDrakX/modules.pm from
> 
> if_($category =~ /net/, 'bmac', 'gmac', 'mace'),
> 
> to
> 
> if_($category =~ /net/, 'bmac', 'gmac', 'mace', 'airport'),
> 

Great, this I can easily do.

Stew Benedict

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