On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 04:12:17PM +0000, Dan Field wrote: > Hi list. > > I've been playing with this for a few days now but only really got > somewhere near working today. > > I currently have a stable booting (via yaboot in the bootsector) > 2.4.21benh kernel and a 2.6.0-test11-benh kernel (built from rsync > today). > > I compiled up XFree86 4.3.1 from the stable tarballs at xfree86.org > without many problems but from what I've read in other posts, it sounds > like this will only work with a 2.6 kernel. Is that correct? Anyway. > 2.6.0-test11 is booting up ok now but the framebuffer is a little odd.
X works fine here with last benh kernel and xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk from Michel Daenzer. In order to get this package, edit your /etc/apt/source.list adding the following line: deb http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-sid ./ > I can't quite describe the problem but it involves what I can only > describe as black scanlines appearing and making the framebuffer > flicker. 2.4.21benh has no such issues. Exactly the same here, but it's fixed as Jens says. If you haven't yet access to startx, you can boot meanwhile with video=ofonly or add this line to your yaboot.conf append="video=ofonly" > > I was just wondering if anyone else was using the same setup out there > and how far they had gotten. * X: works fine with radeonfb for console and "UseFBDev" for X. * Sound: works with alsa. Only preliminary test. * Ethernet: works fine. * Airport Extreme: forget it ;-) * Internal modem: ?? Conexant chipset ?? * Sleep: Ben is working on that. AFAIK, no results yet. > I intend to document what I have for the > benefit of others. I'm writing as well one document about the Debian installation on this machine (at the moment only in spanish). > So if anyone has XFree86Configs or kernel .configs > etc that they think may be of use (specifically for the 17inch powerbook > with superdrive, ATA 100, ATI Radeon 9600 (I think) etc. I want to tune my configs. Can you wait for them two o three days? But, surely, Jens has them more refine. > > best of luck. And thanks to all those in active PPC development, keep up > the excelent work. > > Diolch > > -- > Dan Field <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > http://www.nuclear-dawn.com/ - Drunk on the Lawn in a Nuclear Dawn > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
