"Christopher C. Chimelis" wrote: > > I know these things are brand new, but I was wondering if anyone else > had a Radeon-equipped Powerbook yet?
Not yet, you lucky bastard. ;) > * I got BenH's latest (as of yesterday) kernel source and compiled a > custom kernel. The Radeon FB on this variety of chip support still > seems to be immature. It booted into 640x480 (making the text a > very small subset of this giant screen). When I used fbset to scale > it up to 1152x768, the FB was VERY slow, taking nearly 30 secs to > display a screenful of a manpage. Scaling it back down made it > faster, but not nearly as fast as the OF FB (so I switched back to > that for now). Someone posted a patch to enhance things to the linuxppc-dev list. I expect benh to integrate it into his tree when he gets his TiBook or maybe even earlier. > * Because of the above, I haven't been able to get X going reliably on > it. I've barely tried so far, though, in all fairness. I managed to > get it working once, but at 640x480 and the keymap was fubar. That > was using the FB Xserver, not the 'ati' server, which failed to > detect the adapter at all (I tried specifing BusID also, which > didn't work). The driver only supports the chip in current CVS and the upcoming 4.2.0 release. There might be the usual porting issues though. > * Power management doesn't seem to work very well yet with this PMU. > I don't think they changed it, but the framebuffer differences cause > odd things to happen when it tries to go to sleep. I haven't tried > beyond putting the screen to sleep yet. That's something else which will certainly improve when benh gets his TiBook. :) > In all, not bad (expected worse on such a new machine). Yep, Apple's continuity in hardware equipment is very good. > I like the laptop and will get quite a bit of use out of it despite > the above (I don't usually run X often and can always go to OS X if I > need a GUI for something). I also understand that these things will > improve over time, so I'm sure I'll be testing it out quite a bit and > will try to provide reports to the list... Great, you already managed to render me even less able to wait until I can finally afford one of those lovely machines as well. Keep up the good work with binutils and your other packages! -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
