[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: External monitor on ibook2



On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 05:37, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > Has anyone had success getting the ibook2 to display properly using the 
> > external monitor port under Linux? I'd rather not use MacOS X at the LUG 
> > meeting tomorrow if I don't have to...
> > 
> > BTW, I'm running Debian Sid with the stock 2.4.18-newpmac kernel.
> 
> Use the framebuffer driver instead of the r128 one in X.
> 
> If you search carefully the archives, somebody has reported success with
> this IIRC. I never tried it though.

This isn't correct.  The most that's been achieved is to find that the
external monitor can be driven OK using the OFfb driver, but this is
near useless for any presentational purposes.

-- Edd

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part


Reply to: