Re: X on a new 12" powerbook (Nvidia Go5200) [SUCCESS]
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 17:40:24 -0500
Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> 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 debian-x@lists.debian.org, 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
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