On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 19:49, Nick Allen wrote: > > I'd read somewhere that in order to use X with my TiBook, I would have > to use XFree86 4.2.0 because it's the only version with Radeon Mobility > support.
I'm not sure 4.2 supported your chip. > The second method: Installing, apt-get'ing for updates, installing > the new Kernel through rsync again, then using apt-get to install > Michael Daenzer's updated x-windows-system-core and x-window-system > packages; For the record, I have never provided such packages. > using apt again to install drm-trunk-module-src, x-server-xfree86-dri-trunk, > and xlibmesa3-dri-trunk. I ran dpkg a couple times, updated the > modules a couple times, The DRM is only needed for the DRI. You should worry about getting the X server working at all first. > and tried to "startx" again. This time the screen actually did something > different. It displayed 8 black horizontal lines across the screen in > front of what looked like white clouds turning into purple eventually > turning into blue, a transition not unlike what you'd expect if you > pushed your finger into an LCD panel. The machine froze in that > state. I turned it off hard, only to have the end result be the same > as the end result of Method 1. It's hard to tell what's going on without at least seeing the X server log and maybe the config file. > When the machine reboots I can't login. I don't know where the > interrupt sequence is to manually edit the runlevel, so I'm kinda > screwed in that regard. At the yaboot prompt, type <label> single to boot into single user mode. Press tab to see the list of available labels. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
