On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Derek Darves wrote: > Hello all, > > Some bugs with RC1 PPC: > > I have tried both the Beta 2 release and, now, RC1, and have yet to get > X configured properly on my 667 MHz 2002 Powerbook. > > Video card: ATI Radeon Mobility, "M7" chipset variant (as reported by > Apple System Profiler) > Saw february thread about 2002 Tibook using the "install-gui-benh" > option. This does not produce a legible install screen on my machine > (it looks like 800x600 mirrored twice on the screen).I have gotten > through the installer and had no luck trying to modify XF86config-4 > with various modelines . >
Should be a modeline there already. They key is probably switching to "fbdev" as the driver. > The 9.1 RC1 installer doesn't list 1280x854 as a possible resolution, > but it does list Apple Power Book 1280x854 under the Monitor section. > I was just looking at that code. It's hard for me to tell how that list of resolutions get's generated. In the previous installers, selecting the correct monitor was enough. > The Rescue mode on CD1 seems to try to rerun lilo: obviously not going > to work with PPC version > It runs LILO without asking you? Ack that's bad. I'll look at it. > Some questons: > > Does anyone have a working XF86config-4 file for this machine. What > modelines, specifically, work with 1280x854? > > Does the included version of Xfree in RC1 (9.1) include a driver for > the Radeon 7500 mobility (M7 variant)? > It's hard to say, I see a new XFree go by here every couple days. I know certain radeon are problematic on x86 too. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.freenode.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&r=1&w=2
