On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 17:40:24 -0500 Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 01:53:57PM -0700, Graham Percival wrote: > > I'm using the Xfree 4.3.0 debs from Daniel Stone. Any additional > > information (XF86Config-4, the Xfree log file, lspci -vvv, etc) > > available upon request. > > Is there any particular reason you're not using the XFree86 4.3.0 debs > from Debian experimental, which contain all of Daniel Stone's work plus > a whole lot more updates and bugfixes?
Because I'm a newbie who doesn't know any better. I tried those at first, but they failed (as it turned out, the same problem). After that, I read all the web pages I could find, and eventually decided that Matthias Schmidt's pages (at http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~schmidtm/apple/powerbook.en.php ) looked like the most promising, and he suggested using Daniel Stone's debs. When they didn't work either, I started reading generic X docs (instead of powerbook-specific web pages) and discovered the FlatPanel option. I can now report that the 4.3.0-0pre1v4 debs work on a new 12" powerbook when you manually set the "FlatPanel" option and don't use VideoRam 32000. (the 12" powerbook has 32 megs of RAM, but if that option is set, X merely displays a blank screen) Should I send an email to [email protected], file a bug report with BTS, or is it sufficient just to discuss it here? > Since those are the packages destined to end up in Debian unstable, it > would be nice if more people would actually test them instead of > Daniel's, which are several months old now. I'm not certain how useful my testing would be -- this is both my first laptop as well as my first experience with ppc hardware, so I'm quite a newbie. For example, I haven't figured out how to mimic <ctrl>-<alt>-<backspace>, so in order to test X without requiring a hard reboot, I execute "sleep 2m; reboot" in case it doesn't work. I'm willing to help, but I fear that I'll just get in the way. - Graham Percival
