It might sound naive, but I've just fixed a problem on an Intel machine
that had the sam exact simptom as your, even though it's a PPC.
It had to do with frame buffering and people told me to modify the vga line
in lilo.conf from
vga=normal
to
vga=791
what this does I really don't know. Perhaps it enable the frame buffering
feature of the kernel ? I guess.
I really did not investigate much since it solved my problem and the
machine is working perfectly except when the screen sleeps that it turns
white.
It can be easily reset by switching from the external monitor to the LCD
back and forth. (ALT+F5 on my machine).
Hope it helps,
Alejandro Imass
William von Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 09/14/2001 11:44:22 PM
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Subject: Re: [expert] X11 on old-style iBook (Mandrake PPC 8.0)
Thanks for the reply. Ironically, I've already used been using LinuxPCC,
YDL, and most recently SuSE on the PPC platform (the first two for over a
year now). This really seems like a driver problem to me, but I hoped that
someone might have gotten it working somehow. I'm fairly familiar with
building, configuring, and using the X Window system in general as well as
XFree86.
I'll definitely forward any off-list responses or personal successes that I
get to the list.
Bill
At 06:36 PM 9/14/01 -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
>My feeling is there aren't many Mandrake PPC users yet.
>
>I'd post a message on an X11-related or Mac-related mailing list instead.
>My feeling is there are lots of debian users who've used iMacs, and lots
>of LinuxPPC users who know this information. BTW, I just checked, and
>LinuxPPC has XFree 4 packages available, so the config information they
>provide should also apply.
>
>Best of luck. I hope that you can just get an answer on this list.
>
>-- Asheesh.
>
>On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, William von Hagen wrote:
>
> > I'm new to this list and am having a problem getting X11 working
correctly
> > on Mandrake 8.0 for the PPC platform. I'm running Mandrake 8.0 on a
Lime
> > 466MZ iBook. X comes up, but it's wrapped half-way around the screen,
> > vertically, with a half-inch black line running 2/3 of the way across
the
> > screen (horizontally) in the middle that marks the virtual top of the
> screen.
> >
> > I've tried modifying /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (which the X server says
it's
> > using), to various resolutions, and modified it to use fbdev rather
than
> > the ATI 128 driver, but nothing changes except my level of frustration.
> > Does anyone have a working XF86Config-4 for an equivalent old iBook
that
> > they could send me?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Bill von Hagen
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