Re: Help with X on iBook?

[Michel Dänzer <michdaen@iiic.ethz.ch>]

Kin Chung wrote:

>     XFree4.0.2 does not work at all at the moment.  The r128
>     driver option appears to crash the machine no matter what
>     I try.  It does so even if it appears to detect and do all
>     the right things (by comparison against some of the posted
>     log files).  Have not actually tried it with a telnet
>     session running though, so I am not completely sure.
>     Interesting crash though, what with the screen slowly going
>     white, then black again...

I'm a bit surprised that you didn't find this in the archives, considering how
well you researched the other problems (congrats! :). You need

   Option "UseFBDev"

or

   Option "ProgramFPRegs" "No"

in the Device Section. Either should do, but the first one only works with
aty128fb.


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