Re: XFree86 on Albook 15"?
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:13:35PM +1030, Ryan Verner wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 20:01, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 03:33:34PM +0930, Ryan Verner wrote:
> > > Any other tips, XFree86 related or not, from other Albook users would
> > > also be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Various people told me on IRC that I needed to run a 2.6 kernel for
> > XFree86 to work at all; indeed, once I switched to 2.6 it ran perfectly
> > on my 15" AlBook.
>
> Interesting. Is all the goodies required in ben's kernel tree present
> in 2.6.0-testXX? (forget what's there, but I know that some of the stuff
> isn't there in the vanilla 2.4 tree; some hardware support for various
> things)
I rsynced Ben's 2.6 tree from source.mvista.com::linuxppc-2.5-benh and
built that. http://www.penguinppc.org/ has directions.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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