Hi again,

It turns out that setting the MacModel option to "powerbook-internal"
and specifying horizontal and vertical refresh settings (grabbed from
Ubuntu 7.1) in xorg.conf gets my powerbook3,3 up and running, although
there is an ugly ~5 seconds as X is starting during which the screen is
filled with green lines that refresh like an old television. I created a
patch to the radeon driver that makes the configuration for
powerbook3,3's built-in lcd the same as as for powerbook-internal
models. The external output was also getting configured incorrectly by
the radeon driver (it is a VGA output, but it was getting configured as
DVI), so I changed that in the patch too. Rebooting with a VGA monitor
attached sort of works. The driver picks a reasonable resolution and
color depth for the VGA monitor, displays the default desktop
background, but mirrors the GNOME toolbars and desktop icons from the
laptop's lcd on the upper left 1152x768 pixels of the screen (that is
the resolution of the built-in lcd). Don't know how to fix that problem.

The patch is against Ubuntu's latest release of xserver-xorg-video-ati
for Hardy.

Andrew

** Attachment added: "200_powerbook33fix.diff"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15151103/200_powerbook33fix.diff

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Radeon M6 / fail to detected the screen on PowerBook3,3
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/220887
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