On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 21:11, Johnathon Jamison wrote: > > I do not rightly know which version I have, or how to tell. I do know > my machine was purchased in Jan 2003, so I would bet it is a IV. I > noticed a TiBook IV page at http://spacepants.org/hw/tibook/ that also > said to install from http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/ . However, he > was using sid, not woody, and so it was slightly different > (xlibmesa3-gl1-dri-trunk instead of xlibmesa3-dri-trunk).
It's more than just slightly different; the woody packages may be too old to work well with an M9, at least without Option "UseFBDev". > Apple System Profiler says my video card name is 'ATI,Xia_A'. The > TiBook IV page seems to indicate at the top that the chip set in IV and > III are the same. That would be wrong, III has M7 while IV has M9. > I also fiddled with the Option "UseFBDev" "true" line which the > IV page talked about, but it did not seem to make a difference. Have you checked the log to see whether it's actually used? It should make a difference if radeonfb works correctly in console. Your description sounds like you're still running OFfb. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
